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Anutin among first to get Covid shot

Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul becomes the first person in Thailand to receive a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac at Bamrasnadura Infectious Diseases Institute yesterday, as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha looks on. Government House photo

Priority groups in 18 provinces will receive the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine today, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).

They are Samut Sakhon, Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Samut Songkhram, Nonthaburi, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Tak, Ratchaburi, Chon Buri, Phuket, Koh Samui district of Surat Thani, Chiang Mai, Rayong, Chanthaburi, Trat, Phetchaburi and Krabi.

According to the ministry’s plan, priority groups in the major centres of Chiang Mai and Bangkok will be inoculated today while those in Mae Sot in Tak, Phuket…

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