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Moderna shares up after revealing single-shot vaccine booster for Covid and flu

  By CNBC and Siam Rath MODERNA shares rose yesterday (Sept. 10) after it announced it’s developing a two-in-one vaccine booster shot that protects against both Covid-19 and the seasonal flu. The new vaccine, which the company is calling mRNA-1073, combines Moderna’s current Covid vaccine with a flu shot that’s also under development, according to […]

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Covid count hits 19,603 cases as Korat gets only 15,800 Pfizer vaccine doses

  WITH Thailand still logging a high daily total of  19,603 Covid-19 cases and 149 deaths today (August 9) Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) province revealed that it has only been allotted 15,800 out of 1.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the US, Thai Rath newspaper said. Of today’s large batch of cases, 19,290 were […]

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Doctor calls for allocating donated Pfizer vaccine to garbage collectors

  A THAI doctor tweeted today (July 30) that some of the 1.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the US that has just arrived here should be allocated to garbage collectors who are usually overlooked by the society, Sanook.com said. Dr. Tosaporn Sererak, a several- term MP from Phrae province and former deputy […]

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Thailand logs 17,345 new cases as Pfizer vaccine donated by US arrives

  WITH Thailand’s daily Covid count remaining high at 17,345 new cases and 117 more deaths today (July 30) the first batch of much-needed 1.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the US has arrived, Amarin TV said. Of today’s large new batch of cases, 12,823 emerged in surveillance and health  systems, 3,833 through […]

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Army colonel in hot water for seeking Moderna vaccine for military personnel

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ARMY COLONEL attached to the Thai Armed Forces headquarters will be disciplinarily punished for trying to obtain Moderna vaccine for purported use among military personnel and their family members. Deputy Thai Armed Forces headquarters spokesman Maj. Gen. Thirapong Pattamasing said today (July 23) the colonel in question, who is […]

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Vietnam in talks with US to produce mRNA COVID-19 vaccine

  By Reuters Staff, published by Channel NewsAsia Hanoi – Vietnam is in talks with the United States to locally produce mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, its foreign ministry said on today (July 22), as the Southeast Asian country looks to shore up its vaccine supply amid its worst outbreak of the coronavirus yet. After successfully containing […]

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Police warn against Covid vaccine swindle

POLICE today (June 30) warned the public to beware of coronavirus vaccine swindle proliferating online after a complaint was filed by a man that he and his 20 friends were tricked into buying Sinopharm jabs at 1,800 baht each but in the end did not get the shots, Siam Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June […]

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Thai netizens keen on going to Laos to get Pfizer jab

AS news spread in Thai social media that Laos has announced that foreigners with a work visa may get the much sought after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine many have said they are keen on crossing the border to get this jab rather than what is currently available but in short supply in Thailand, Sanook.com said this […]

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Business

Thai firm plans to import world’s first Covid-19 vaccine for animals

SUPREME Pharmatech, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in Thailand, plans to import 10,000 doses of the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine for animals, NNT said today (May 30). Supreme Pharmatech CEO, Milint Wintarasiri, said the company is in negotiations with the manufacturer, Carnivac-Cov, to import the vaccine. She said that this is a good opportunity to contribute […]

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Newly-approved Sinopharm vaccine to cost maximum 1,000 baht a jab

By Siam Rath and Reuters AFTER the approval of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine for emergency use today (May 28) Mr Nithi Mahanonda, secretary-general of the Chulabhorn Royal Academy which is importing 1 million doses, said the price would not exceed 1,000 baht a jab including insurance. This is the Covid fifth vaccine approved by the Food […]

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