Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reiterated half of the country’s population will get free Covid-19 jabs this year.
As Thailand prepares to launch the first Covid-19 vaccinations next month, Gen Prayut gave details about free Covid-19 jabs on his Facebook page. He also announced a long-term plan to ensure Thais will have access to affordable and locally made vaccines.
He said the country will receive the first 200,000 doses of vaccine, made by Sinovac, a Chinese pharmaceutical company, in February and they have been reserved for frontline medical staff and elderly people at high risk.
The first lot is a part of two million doses which the government ordered from the company. Another 800,000 and one million doses will arrive later in March and April. Previously, the government pre-ordered 26 million doses from AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish company, and recently…
