One after another affected nations roll out and scheduled vaccination programme to their people to counter coronavirus. Pfizer vaccine is the first choice for all nations in selection.
UK starts vaccination with Pfizer followed by Canada, South Africa and United States. Now, it’s the turn of Singapore in making schedule for vaccination in the nation with Pfizer on December 30th. Lim, health worker is the first person in Singapore to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
On first day of the vaccination programme, 40 members of health workers of the institute were vaccinated. Lim and other health workers will return for their 2nd dose on January 20th. Singapore is the first country in Asia to approve the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine. There is an expectation that Singapore have enough vaccines for its 5.7 million population by the end of third quarter of 2021. Not only in it’s country, Singapore aims to become vaccine distribution hub in Southeast Asia. Changi airport has cold storage capacity for coronavirus vaccine delivery. In Singapore, the vaccines will be free and voluntary.
Government has deployed more than 200 Singapore Airline passenger aircraft ready to deliver vaccines to various destinations on demand. There is a plan to deliver vaccine boxes to Maldives from Singapore as per the agreement. Singapore reported five locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, its highest number in nearly three months, and was seeking to verify two others suspected of being infected by a highly contagious variant first discovered in Britain. Though Singapore has recorded more than 58,000 infections and 29 coronavirus-related deaths overall, many were in outbreaks in crowded migrant dormitories.
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