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The COVID-19 vaccination in Singapore is an ongoing immunisation campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the ongoing pandemic in the country. Singapore has a very high vaccination rate, with more than 92% of its total population (and ...
Pfizer was founded in 1849 as "Charles Pfizer & Company" by Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart, [5] two cousins who had immigrated to the United States from Ludwigsburg, Germany. The business produced chemical compounds, and was headquartered on Bartlett Street [ 6 ] in Williamsburgh, New York where they produced an antiparasitic called ...
10 December – CP: Singaporeans aged 5 to 11 are now allowed to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first approved for children. Booster shots are extended to those aged 18 to 29. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is also approved for full registration. [132] [133] 14 December – CP: An expansion of VTL to include Thailand. [134]
In 2013, he set up the David Ebsworth Scholarship, which was worth £3,000 per year for four years, to help students who wanted to study German at the University of Surrey. Here, he has also founded the David Ebsworth Prize for Best Performance in the Professional Training Year and the David Ebsworth Student Opportunities Fund. [12]
BioNTech was founded in 2008 based on research by Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, [8] and Christoph Huber, [9] with a seed investment of €180 million [10] from MIG Capital, a Munich-based venture capital firm, the family office of Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann, and the present chairman of the supervisory board, Helmut Jeggle.
In July 2014, Baxter announced that it was exiting the vaccines business—divesting its commercial vaccine portfolio to Pfizer (with the sale expected to close by the end of the year) and exploring options for its vaccines R&D program, including influenza. [24] In October 2015, José E. Almeida was named chairman and chief executive officer. [25]
9–22 January – Three athletes from Singapore compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first time Singapore participates in the competition. [21] 10 January The United States government allows the sale of up to 12 F-35B jets to Singapore. [22] CP: The second suspected case is reported, [23] later negative. [24]
The Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, sold under the brand name Comirnaty, [2] [33] is an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine developed by the German biotechnology company BioNTech. For its development, BioNTech collaborated with the American company Pfizer to carry out clinical trials, logistics, and manufacturing.