The Permanent Secretary for Health Dr. James Fong says they are targeting their community surveillance in areas that they think have a COVID-19 outbreak.
He says they are not going everywhere swabbing everyone and are conducting targeted screenings.
Dr. Fong adds this is how things are done when a country has a vaccinated population.
Dr. Fong says previous public health measures that they had implemented were for a period when hardly anyone was vaccinated.
He says with the level of vaccination they have achieved, transmission has already been suppressed to a large extent.
The Permanent Secretary for Health says the best they can do now is to implement a few targeted measures that can suppress transmission in specific high risk places like hospitals and senior citizen homes.
