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Singapore Receives Asia's 1st Shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine
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
By Kyodo News 22 December 2020
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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