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Pfizer Corona 19 Vaccine Approval, Singapore Prime Minister Reveals Domestic Vaccines During the Year (Singapore Reuters = Yonhap News)▶ Click here to enlarge
Singapore also approved the use of a new vaccine against coronavirus infection (Corona 19) developed by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German Bioentech. After the United Kingdom approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for the first time in the world, countries such as Canada, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, the United States and Kuwait approved the emergency use.
According to local and foreign media in Singapore on the 14th, Prime Minister Li Xianlong, 68, is expected to “secure enough vaccinations for everyone by the third quarter of next year (July to September), and it will be provided free of charge. to citizens and long-term residents. ” He said: “We hope to start vaccination by the end of the year.”
“Vaccination is voluntary, but I and other government officials plan to get vaccinated before medical personnel, the elderly and the vulnerable,” he said. “This shows that we believe the vaccine is safe, especially for older people like me. It’s for, “he explained.
Then, referring to a committee of doctors and experts established by the Ministry of Health, he said: “After this, the committee will gradually immunize the rest of the population and will target everyone who wants to be vaccinated by the end of next year.”
In this regard, Singapore authorities signed an advance purchase contract for promising candidate vaccines, including vaccines developed by another American pharmaceutical company Moder or Chinese vaccine developer Synovac, and paid up-front payments worth $ 1 billion (approximately 1.9 trillion won). He said he had prepared the previous vaccine.
According to international statistics, the cumulative number of confirmed corona19 cases in Singapore, a city-state with a population of 5.7 million, was 58,325 a day and 29 deaths were counted.
Meanwhile, Singapore, which has practically closed its borders due to the Corona 19 pandemic, has recently introduced measures to gradually lower the entry threshold for countries with excellent quarantine. As of the 18th, it is a policy to exempt people entering Singapore after staying in Taiwan for more than two weeks.
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