Singapore COVID-19 Vaccination: Healthcare worker Sarah Lim receives her COVID-19 vaccine in Singapore.
Singapore:
Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, kicking off one of Asia s first inoculation programmes against a pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people globally.
Sarah Lim, a 46-year-old nurse, and 43-year-old infectious diseases doctor Kalisvar Marimuthu were among the more than 30 staff at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases who were vaccinated on Wednesday, the health ministry said.
They will return for the second dose of the vaccine on January 20. Vaccines have managed to bring pandemics down to their knees before. So I am hopeful that this vaccine will do the same, Marimuthu said in recorded remarks provided by the health ministry.