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Govt goes cool on joining vaccine pact

Govt goes cool on joining vaccine pact

Lack of control, huge deposit needed

Supakit: Jab talks still going on

While all other Asean countries are in line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine through a Covax vaccine-sharing programme in the first and second quarters of this year, Thailand’s Public Health Ministry sees the programme’s requirements too limiting to put down billions of baht in deposits to join.

Under the programme, the kingdom cannot fully choose the vaccine it would get, when it would get the vaccine and the cost might be higher than acquiring from direct negotiations with the producers, authorities said.

Nakorn Premsri, director of the National Vaccine Institute, said Thailand might have to wait a long time and buy the Covid-19 vaccine at a…

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