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Anutin gets first Covid jab as vaccinations finally begin

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul gets Thailand’s first shot of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine against Covid-19 on Sunday at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi. (Photo from Anutin Charnvirakul Facebook account)

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…

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