SINGAPORE – A 46-year-old nurse became the first person in Singapore to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, making the city-state among the first Asian countries to begin an inoculation campaign against the coronavirus.
Sarah Lim, a senior staff nurse at the National Center for Infectious Diseases, was the first of more than 30 staff at the center who are being vaccinated, the health ministry said. They will return for the second dose of the vaccine on Jan. 20.
“I feel very grateful and thankful for being the first to be vaccinated in Singapore,” said Lim, who helps screen suspected COVID-19 cases. In recorded remarks provided by the health ministry, she said she hoped to encourage others to get vaccinated. (Reuters)
