Two private hospitals have ordered millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines ahead of regulatory approval, adding to government orders of vaccines as Thailand tackles a second wave of the virus.
“We ordered one million doses of the Sinovac vaccine with an option to buy nine million more,” Boon Vanasin, the chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group Plc, told Reuters.
From the initial one million doses, he plans to use about half to inoculate staff in its network of 40 hospitals and workers in his other businesses, once receiving approval from Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The government…
