Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 3:57 pm
Singapore Airlines (SIA) delivered the first shipment of
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to Singapore yesterday
evening on board one of its Boeing 747-400 freighters. This
was also the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipment to be
delivered to a country in Asia.
The vaccines were
carried on board SQ7979, a scheduled freighter service from
Brussels, Belgium, to Singapore. The flight departed on 20
December 2020 and arrived in Singapore on 21 December 2020
at approximately 1955hours.
The shipment was
prioritised for loading into the aircraft in Brussels and
was given similar precedence during unloading in Singapore.
It was then transported to SATS’s cold-chain facility,