30 million Thais to be vaccinated this year

30 million Thais to be vaccinated this year

Ministry sets timeline for Covid-19 shots

The Ministry of Public Health is pledging to have 30 million Thais vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the year.

“If everything goes to plan, we can start administering at least five million doses per month and later, up to 10 million doses per month, to complete 61 million doses in 2021,” Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, chief of the Department of Disease Control (DDC), said on Monday.

“This is the largest vaccination programme in our history and we need to get all our staff ready to do the job.”

The DDC is preparing to soon launch the mammoth three-phase programme, with two million doses given by the end of next month. The second and third phases will follow from June onwards, using 61 million doses of the Oxford…