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Thaksin slams vaccine policy, says some Pfizer vaccine has slipped through

WHILE former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a Clubhouse chat that a small amount of  Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has arrived in Thailand and Pfizer (Thailand) Company today (May 5)  denied it has started importing its vaccine, he had also criticised the government’s vaccine policy, Sanook.com said. Thaksin said that although vaccines are not very risky, […]

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PM slams media for playing up fake vaccination allegations 

PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha criticised the media for play up social media comments that the jab he received yesterday (March 16) might just be water or saline solution and not the AstraZeneca vaccine, pointing out that he was ready for a vaccination anytime at all with this depending on doctors’ advise, Voice TV and Sanook.com […]

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PM, Cabinet put off AstraZeneca jab after scare in Europe

PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and cabinet ministers postponed getting their AstraZeneca vaccination shot this morning (March 12) after it was reported that seven European countries had suspended using this brand of coronavirus vaccine over blood clot fears, TV Channel 7 reported. Instead of going to Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute at the Public Health Ministry to […]

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Health workers first in queue for vaccination

The first 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to frontline healthcare workers in Samut Sakhon, Mae Sot district of Tak and in the southern border provinces, a communicable diseases expert revealed. President of the Paediatric Infectious Disease Society of Thailand Dr Tawee Chotpitayasunondh said the first 50,000 doses developed by the University of […]

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50,000 doses of Italian-made AstraZeneca vaccine coming next month

THE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had registered AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine made in Italy on Wednesday January 20 after the company submitted nearly 10,000 pages of documents in making this application, Thai Rath reported today (Jan. 22). The Italian company will deliver the first lot of 50,000 doses next month with another 150,000 […]

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Budget set aside to acquire AstraZeneca vaccine

THE Cabinet today (Nov. 17) allotted a budget of 6.049 billion baht for the procurement of coronavirus vaccine from AstraZeneca (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and AstraZeneca UK, limited, Siam Rath newspaper reported. Mr. Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said the National Vaccine Institute will establish an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) contract for the […]

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AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial, shares slip on rollout doubts

By Reuters, published by US News London – AstraZeneca has suspended global trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness in a participant, knocking the British drugmaker’s shares today (Sept. 9) as prospects for an early rollout dimmed. The vaccine to combat Covid-19, which AstraZeneca is developing with the University of Oxford, has […]

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