Snacks and inoculations? Bangkok’s 7-Elevens sought for vaccine registration: City Hall

The engine of Thai daily life and monopolistic power may enter the public health sphere as vaccine registration sites throughout the capital, City Hall said yesterday.

To ease the burden on the government’s spotty Mor Phrom vaccine registration app and avoid counterproductive crowding at walk-in locations, City Hall spokesperson Pongsakorn Kwanmuang said they want to recruit 7-Eleven’s ubiquitous convenience stores to help reach the public. Pongaskorn said more details would be available next week. 

The capital is expected to receive 5 million doses of vaccine split evenly between June and July, enough to vaccinate roughly 20% of the metropolitan population. City Hall plans to distribute the doses to 126 hospitals and 25 vaccination centers in hope of inoculating more than 60,000 people per day and vaccinating 5 million residents within two months. 

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