Singapore received its first shipment of the Beijing-based pharmaceutical's CoronaVac vaccine in February, with some 200,000 doses delivered.
"The Health Sciences Authority continues its evaluation with a view towards hopefully approving it for use on Singaporeans. But they still have a few outstanding items of information they require from the manufacturer in order to be assured that the vaccine is both safe and effective," said MOH's director of medical services Kenneth Mak at a multi-ministry taskforce press conference.
"The manufacturer has advised us that the vaccine has a shelf life of up to two years so that's what we have in mind at this point in time in terms of the shelf life and expiry of the Sinovac vaccines that were already delivered to us," said Associate Professor Mak.
dont play with singaporeans life lah.. virus coming from wuhan lab. we trust vaccine from china. dont be stupid!
Pending WHO’s approval lah
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