The first batch of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines that arrived Thailand on Wednesday has passed the Department of Medical Sciences’ quality tests and are ready for delivery to state hospitals, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
“The tests have already been carried by the Department of Medical Sciences. They are now ready to be sent to all hospitals for people under the Ministry of Public Health’s Covid-19 vaccine management plan,” Mr Anutin posted on his Facebook account.
Dr Supakit Sirilak, chief of the Department of Medical Sciences (DMS), said that tests on 320 shots from the shipment, showed that the vaccines had been produced according to the standards set out in the contract.
They were the first 200,000 out of two million doses of “CoronaVac” — the name given to it by the China-based Sinovac pharmaceutical firm.
Another batch of 800,000…
