Singapore PM receives first dose of Covid-19 vaccine

ReutersPublished: Jan 8, 2021 5:51 AM | Updated: Jan 8, 2021 8:48 AM

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received the first shot of a vaccine against Covid-19 on Friday, the 68-year-old said in a Facebook post sharing a video of him being injected in the arm at a local hospital.

Singapore has so far only approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine but has 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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