Israel sent seven hundred thousand doses (Yonhap) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that were set to expire soon (NYT) to South Korea. South Korea is due to return the same number of Pfizer-BioNTech doses to Israel later this year.
This Backgrounder looks at global COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
Singapore: Singapore’s health minister and its manpower minister gave speeches defending the government’s openness (Bloomberg) to foreign workers after opposition politicians criticized such openness due to job losses and COVID-19.
