Another 800,000 doses of Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Thailand on March 25, says Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Among those to receive the Sinovac jabs will be cabinet members aged below 60. Those older than 60, including Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, will instead be given the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Mr Anutin said the prime minister had instructed all cabinet ministers to be vaccinated and he expected that they would receive their first jab at hospitals on Friday, after which they would be monitored for 30 minutes for potential side effects.
Four pharmaceutical firms have so far applied for approval to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in Thailand. Two of them — AstraZeneca and Sinovac — have so far been approved and have already shipped vaccines…
