Why M'sia lags months behind S'pore in getting Covid-19 vaccine

Kow Gah ChiePublished: Dec 23, 2020 8:57 AM | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 12:39 PM

COVID-19 | Some have raised their eyebrows that Singapore received its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, while Malaysia is only to receive its first shipment of the same vaccine in February 2021.

At a press conference today, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin explained that Malaysia lagging behind by two months was because Singapore, like the US and the European Union, has a deep pocket and the island state inked the agreement with Pfizer months earlier than Malaysia...

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