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Singapore gets first virus vaccine batch – Yahoo News Australia
A first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Singapore, with health officials planning a swift rollout in the city-state.
Singapore has become the first Asian nation to receive a batch of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, ahead of a rollout in the city-state that health officials have said could be as soon as two weeks away.
Singapore Airlines, which carried the vaccines on board one of its freighters from Belgium, did not specify the size of the batch.
Singapore announced last week that it had approved the companies’ vaccine.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, 68, has said he will be among the early recipients of the…
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