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Singapore Receives Asia’s 1st Shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for shipment at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan on Dec. 13, 2020. / Pool / Getty/ Kyodo

Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for shipment at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan on Dec. 13, 2020. / Pool / Getty/ Kyodo

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SINGAPORE—Singapore received its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, becoming the first country in Asia to receive the shots.

“The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines landed in Singapore this evening,” the government said in a short statement.

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