16/02/2021
It wasn t until later on Monday that we were told the vaccine had arrived. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty
Under the cover of a dull, rainy Auckland sky, a rare sight in our COVID-19 world appeared on Monday: an inbound jetliner from somewhere outside of our bubble.
But as the day unfolded, we would come to learn that this Singapore Airlines flight was carrying New Zealand s first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The exact details of when vaccines would touchdown in Aotearoa had been kept confidential - a request from the manufacturer - but had Kiwis known, some would have no doubt been asking for the flight to be guided and protected by air force jets, such was the value of its cargo.
The Straits Times
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Mr Kenny Teo, managing director of Gain City, with his mother Lim Meow Ing and wife Chiam Bee Ling yesterday at the National Kidney Foundation s new dialysis centre in Yuhua, to which he donated two dialysis machines - one under Gain City s name, and the other under the name of his mother.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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