THAILAND: As part of China’s global campaign to vaccinate its overseas citizens, Chinese nationals based in Thailand started receiving the first round of COVID-19 shots yesterday (May 20).
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha inspects a vial of the Coronavac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac, beside Yang Xin, Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese embassy in February. Photo: AFP.
So far Thailand has received 6 million doses of Coronavac, the Chinese-manufactured COVID-19 vaccine from Sinovac. A delivery of 1.5 million doses was received yesterday and a further 3 million are expected to arrive next month, explained a report by Associated Press.
Of that total, 500,000 doses were recently donated by the Chinese government on the understanding Chinese nationals based in the Kingdom would be the first overseas citizens to receive the inoculation as part of what…
