Thailand starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign
28 February, 2021
Thailand kicked off its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday (Feb 28), with ministers, wellness officials and doctors one of the primary in the queue to receive vaccinations.
The first doses of vaccine, produced by China's Sinovac Biotech, received to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who's also medical minister, amongst others at an infectious ailments institute on the outskirts of Bangkok.
"I hope that the vaccination will lead to people being safe and sound from the spread of COVID-19 and it allows Thailand to come back to normalcy immediately," Anutin told reporters afterwards.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, 66, attended the function, although his age falls beyond your selection of 18 to 59 suitable to get Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine, as a result he didn't get it.
Thailand received its first 200,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from China and 117,00 imported doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine this week.
CoronaVac has been distributed to 13 high-risk provinces, which will start injecting front-line health professionals and volunteers on Sunday, medical ministry has said.
AstraZeneca's vaccine will be equipped for use by the next week of March, after going right through quality control tests, the company said in a affirmation.
Thailand is expected to take delivery of an additional 1.8 million doses of CoronaVac in March and April.
A good mass campaign to manage 10 million doses per month is set to start in June, with 61 million photos of AstraZeneca vaccines made by local firm Siam Bioscience.
With a tally of just over 25,000 infections, Thailand has escaped the sort of fallout suffered by some other countries since the pandemic began this past year.
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