Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul became the first person in the country to get a shot of vaccine against the novel coronavirus on Sunday morning when Thailand rolled out Covid-19 vaccinations for the first time.
Mr Anutin received the vaccination at 7.30am at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute on Tivanon Road in Nonthaburi, with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in attendance.
The shot was administered to Mr Anutin’s arm by Dr Yong Poovorawan, a medical professor in pediatric hepatology at the Faculty of Medicine of Chulalongkorn University. It was…