The updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is now available under Singapore's national vaccination programme, the Singaporean Ministry of Health (MOH) said on May 28.

Health experts have urged parents to have their babies fully vaccinated in order to create a barrier of immunisation for the whole community as several infectious diseases are raging across the country.

Ten infectious diseases are entitled to compulsory vaccination under an expanded national vaccination programme (NEVP) that started on January 1.