Singapore: Singapore joins the list of nations to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The first shots will be delivered by end of December, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday.
The city-state has 5.7 million people and expects to get vaccinate everyone by Q3 of 2021. It will also distribute it free of cost for citizens and long-term residents, Lee informed.
“My colleagues and I, including the older ones, will be getting ourselves vaccinated early. This is to show you, especially seniors like me, that we believe the vaccines are safe,” Lee said in a national broadcast.
Singapore has also signed advanced purchase agreements with Moderna and Sinovac, and has aside $1 billion for the shots.
In the middle-east, Bahrain, one of the early approvers of the COVID-19 vaccine, has also approved China’s Sinopharm vaccine. Over 7,700 people in Bahrain had taken part in phase III trials of this vaccine.
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