{"id":3179,"date":"2021-01-08T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:27:17","slug":"singapore-pm-receives-first-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/singapore-pm-receives-first-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore PM receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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, <strong>Q\u0130A.AZ<\/strong>\u00a0reports with reference to\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore has so far only approved Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe got vaccinated early to show Singaporeans we are confident that the vaccine is safe and effective,\u201d Lee said, adding that he had been vaccinated alongside the country\u2019s top health official, Kenneth Mak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city-state gave its first jabs at the end of December, but Lee said broader vaccinations of healthcare workers from public institutions would start on Friday, followed by the elderly next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, Q\u0130A.AZ\u00a0reports with reference to\u00a0Reuters. Singapore has so far only approved Pfizer-BioNTech\u2019s vaccine but has said it has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/singapore-pm-receives-first-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore PM receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}