The first 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine expected to arrive in Thailand early next month will be administered to frontline healthcare workers in Samut Sakhon, Mae Sot district of Tak and in the southern border provinces, a communicable diseases expert revealed yesterday.
Dr Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, president of the Paediatric Infectious Disease Society of Thailand and an expert in the national communicable disease committee, said yesterday the first 50,000 doses developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc will be given first to the healthcare workers at the forefront of the fight to contain Covid-19 in at-risk areas of the country.
The healthcare workers to receive the jabs are those in Samut Sakhon where a recent cluster of infections was detected, the border district of Mae Sot in Tak and the southern border provinces, according to Dr Tawee.
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