Covid vaccines will bring recovery in 2021 — but it won't be 'business as usual,' says Singapore minister CNBC 12/17/2020 Yen Nee Lee Singapore is expecting its first shipment of the Pfizer and BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine this month. But the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan warned that "it will be a fallacy, it will be very dangerous to assume we're going to go back to business as usual." Balakrishnan told CNBC that technology such as artificial intelligence and robotics will alter jobs and economies globally, so "all of us are going to have to focus on economic restructuring." Making Covid vaccine voluntary for Singaporeans is crucial to build public confidence: Minister