SINGAPORE – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received the first dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus on Friday, the 68-year-old .
He then went onto share a video of him getting injected on his arm on his official Facebook page and said, “We got vaccinated early to show Singaporeans we are confident that the vaccine is safe and effective,” Lee said, adding that he had been vaccinated alongside the country’s top health official, Kenneth Mak.
While city-state gave its first set of vaccinations by the end of December, Lee informed that broader vaccinations of healthcare workers from public institutions would start on Friday, followed by the elderly next month.
Though Singapore has so far only approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, the Prime Minister said it has also secured enough doses for its 5.7 million population including from other vaccine-makers like Moderna and Sinovac.
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