Enough doses to vaccinate 3,000 heading to Thonglor as COVID cases hit new high: City Hall

With travel barriers going up around the capital during peak travel holidays, City Hall today reiterated plans to vaccinate 3,000 people on an emergency basis in Bangkok’s worst-hit district of Wattana.

Priority for the doses – two per recipient – will go to employees of Thonglor nightlife venues and nearby residents, according to deputy permanent secretary Chawin Sirinak of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. He said the free inoculations would be given outdoors but didn’t specify where or when.

So far, Bangkok has received 196,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from AstraZeneca and Sinovac Biotech, 66,000 of which have gone to medical personnel and those with underlying conditions.

Virologist Yong Poovorawan said yesterday that both brands of imported vaccine are very effective: 78% for the Chinese-made Sinovac and 76% for the one developed in part by Oxford…