About 2,000 companies have expressed an intent to buy Covid-19 vaccines from the government for their 900,000-strong workforce, according to the Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC).
Sanan Angubolkul, the chamber’s chairman, said the companies all wish to shoulder the costs of the jabs for their employees.
“They insist that they want to buy from the government for distribution to their employees. So, it depends on how fast the vaccines can be procured and delivered,” he said.
The government has secured 64 million doses of the AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines and is working to buy 36 million more as it plans to vaccinate up to 50 million people by the end of this year. Many companies in…
