Medical workers administer the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to people at Samutprakan Hospital. Somchai Poomlard
It will take Thailand two years to reach herd immunity for Covid-19 at the current rate of vaccination, but if local vaccine production plans ramp up and vaccination rates increase, hope remains for a quicker timeline, according to a report by Deutsche Bank.
As of April 28, 1.5% of Thais have had at least one shot of a vaccine, while about 59,000 people have been infected with Covid-19 and survived, meaning they should have some level of immunity to the virus.
According to Michael Spencer, chief economist for Asia-Pacific at Deutsche Bank and author of the “Time to…
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