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Private hospitals plan to order 5 million doses of Moderna vaccine

THE Private Hospital Association is expected to use Moderna shots for its own inoculation programme, alongside the government’s mass rollout of AstraZeneca and Sinovac Biotech vaccines, NNT said today (May 24). Deputy government spokeswoman Traisulee Traisoranakul said the group of over 200 private hospitals is currently reviewing orders from its members and will procure the […]

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Daily Covid count climbs to 789 while 1m doses of Sinovac vaccine arrive

THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said that there were 789 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours while a million more doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived this morning (April 10), TV Channel 7 said. The new batch of cases raised the cumulative confirmed total to 31,658 but there was also another fatality […]

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GPO starts human trials of domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine

THE Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has started human trials of a domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine and expects to deploy it next year, NNT said today (March 23, 2021) The trials are being conducted in cooperation with Mahidol University’s Faculty of Tropical Medicine by delivering shots to 18 volunteers on Monday. The home-grown vaccine candidate is […]

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Prayut receives first lot of vaccine from China’s Sinovac

PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha went to the warehouse at Suvarnabhumi Airport today (Feb. 24) to receive the country’s first 200,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine after their arrival from Beijing and declared that this shipment returns the smile to Thailand, Sanook.com said. Accompanying him were Deputy Premier and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and other senior […]

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Thanathorn off the hook as court revokes vaccine video clip order

THE Criminal Court today (Feb. 8) revoked a previous order suspending a video clip Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit had released on social media questioning the government’s coronavirus vaccine policy as sought by the the Digital Economy and Society Ministry, Thai Rath newspaper said. The earlier court order had instructed Thananthorn to suspend the video, […]

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Coronavirus vaccines from China arrive in Cambodia

                PHNOM PENH: The first 600,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by China to Cambodia arrived in Phnom Penh on Sunday by special plane, with the doses earmarked to vaccinate health workers and the military. The nation of about 16 million people is one of the least impacted […]

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China gives vaccine to Cambodia

(Phnom Penh) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said China would offer Cambodia an immediate donation of one million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Sinopharm company. In an audio message addressing the public on the night of January 15, he said Cambodia has accepted the offer and will use them on the […]

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19 million Thais face jab for Covid19

The Thai government plans to immunize 19 million Thai citizens against the coronavirus in a first phase of inoculations, starting on Feb 14. Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said inoculations will begin with 50,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. He gave no timeline for the first phase and apologized for the government’s slow roll out of […]

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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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