Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Malaysia will loosen somesocial distancing measures for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from August21 as 50 percent of adults in the Southeast Asian country have completedvaccination.

The decision was made during a meeting of the SpecialNational Security Council (MKN) chaired by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on August 20. The meetingaimed to consider proposals by the MKN Special Technical Committee to ease morerestrictions, especially for Phase One states of the country’s recovery plan.

However, Muhyiddin Yassin clarified that people will enjoy eased measures 14days after receiving the second shot of vaccines that require two shots like Pfizer,AstraZeneca and Sinovac. Meanwhile, people who are injected with vaccines thatneed only one dose like Johnson&Johnson and CanSino will need 28 days.

Outdoor sport activities will be allowed but only within the same district from6am to 10pm. At the same time, restaurants can serve customers right at thesite.

Meanwhile in Singapore, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnansaid that the country is likely to stick to its mask mandate for some moretime as the city-state cautiously reopensits borders and eases its COVID-19 restrictions.

Masks have been compulsory since April last year in Singapore, which has beenamong the most successful countries in containing coronavirus outbreaks

Singapore has vaccinated more than three-quarters of its 5.7million population.

Balakrishnan also said the government would continue using coronavirus contact-tracing technology when thepandemic was over.

The country plans to complete COVID-19 vaccination for 80 percentof its population in September./.