First Pfizer doses for children arrive, vaccination starts Monday

The Department of Disease Control has confirmed the arrival of the first shipment of Pfizer vaccines to be administered to children aged 5 to 11. The lot of 300,000 Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Thailand today, with vaccinations scheduled to begin on January 31.

The first round of vaccines will be given to those children considered high-risk due to having one of the 7 underlying medical conditions the Thai government has flagged. Those conditions included cancer, diabetes, obesity, respiratory disease, and coronary heart disease.

This first batch of 300,000 vaccines is part of a total order of 3.5 million Pfizer doses scheduled to be sent to Thailand in the first quarter of 2022. Similar shipments are expected to be received every week until the order is complete.

With the commencement of vaccinations on Monday, Thailand will become the second country in Asia to administer the…