Singapore is the first country in Asia to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Wednesday's vaccinations mark "a new chapter in our fight against the pandemic," Lee said in a Facebook post. China is inoculating specific groups of people considered at high risk of infection, such as medical workers and border inspectors, under an emergency use programme started in July. In Japan and South Korea, the US military has begun its first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations, prioritising frontline medical workers. Some Philippine soldiers and cabinet ministers have already received COVID-19 vaccine injections even before regulatory approval.

Source: bd News24 December 30, 2020 05:48 UTC