Covid-19: Singapore Becomes First Asian Country To Approve Pfizer Vaccine


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0 Views: Visits 16 Singapore has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech’s novel coronavirus vaccine and expects delivery of the first shots by the end of December, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday, 14 December. This was Lee’s fifth address to the nation since the coronavirus outbreak hit Singapore on January 23, as of Sunday the city-state had 58,320 cases, with 29 fatalities from complications due to the coronavirus. ”The city-state of 5.7 million people expects to have enough vaccines for everyone by the third quarter of 2021 and will make it free for citizens and long-term residents, Lee said. While...