Singapore media is essentially Singapore state media. Which is therefore a soft indication of the political slant of the current cabinet.
To give you an idea of the dumbassery within this cabinet (which had in past generations successfully walked a fine path balancing relations between China and the West)
- The 2 officially endorsed vaccines are both mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna)
- Singapore has not officially approved Sinovac, AZ and J&J but has recently given approval for own-cost, own-cost usage.
- In the last week since the first dose of Sinovac rolled out, the uptake has been very good. Sensing the groundswell demand for non-mRNA vaccine - The SG govt has just announced they have signed a procurement deal with Novovax
If you wanted to slap China in the face with a cold, wet fish, you couldn't do a better job than by doing this.
iinm, Novovax is US, has yet to achieve regulatory approval and this despite the track record of 1 billion Sinovac doses having been administered globally with hardly any hoohah about side effects (which I believe the west have been digging for). The efficacy may be debatable but to some, it's not about the efficacy, it's about the perceived safety of the vaccine tech.
I look forward to more AFVs being impounded.