The Public Health Ministry is urging those who have received two doses of AstraZeneca to get a booster shot to protect themselves against the highly infectious new variant of Covid-19.
Citing academic research, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Friday that those who get three doses of AstraZeneca will greatly reduce their chances of being infected by Omicron.
“Thailand has its own AstraZeneca manufacturing facilities. It was confirmed that 61 million doses will be delivered by year’s end, while another 60 million doses, including second-generation vaccines, will be handed over at the beginning of next year.”
“I also want to ask people to avoid panicking as long as the information from the Department of Disease Control [DDC] shows Omicron has much less severe symptoms than Delta,” said Mr Anutin.
DDC director-general, Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, said…
