Singapore’s government data show that three quarters of COVID-19 infections in the last month were among inoculated individuals, as a rapid ramp-up in the city state’s vaccinations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.

Singapore has already administrated vaccines to nearly 75 percent of its 5.7 million people, the world’s second highest after the United Arab Emirates, a Reuters tracker shows, and half its population is fully vaccinated.

It reported 1,096 locally transmitted cases in the last 28 days, of which 484, or 44 percent, were fully vaccinated people, while 30 percent were partially vaccinated and the remaining 25 percent were unvaccinated.

There were only 7 serious cases requiring oxygen support, of which 6 were unvaccinated and one was partially vaccinated, the health ministry said.

“There is continuing evidence that vaccines help to prevent serious disease when one gets infected,” the ministry said, adding all of the fully vaccinated and infected people showed no symptoms or mild symptoms.

Experts said infections reported by vaccinated people do not mean vaccines are ineffective.

“As more and more people are vaccinated in Singapore, we will see more infections happening amongst vaccinated people,” Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

“It is important to always compare it against the proportion of people who remain unvaccinated…. Suppose Singapore achieves a rate of 100 percent fully vaccinated… then all infections will stem from the vaccinated people and none from the unvaccinated.”

The data also showed that infections in the last 14 days among vaccinated people aged over 61 were at about 88 percent, higher than the younger age group.

Linfa Wang, a professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, said elderly people have been shown to have weaker immune responses upon vaccination.

In Israel, which also has a high vaccination rate, about half of the 46 patients hospitalized as of early July in severe condition were vaccinated, and the majority were from risk groups, according to the health authorities.

It was not immediately clear whether the data reflects reduced protection offered by vaccines against the more contagious Delta variant, which has been the most common version of the virus in Singapore in recent months.

Singapore uses Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and Moderna for its national vaccination program.