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Sputnik V to launch in Thailand

THAILAND: Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally vowed to support Thailand’s COVID-19 battle and will therefore be selling it his country’s Sputnik V vaccine, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced yesterday (Apr 22).

The Sputnik vaccine is being made available to Thailand via a “government-to-government” contract. Photo: AFP.

The PM revealed on his Facebook page that Mr Putin had agreed to make the Sputnik jabs available to Thailand via a “government-to-government” contract.

Gen Prayut also invited the private sector, including the Federation of Thai Industries, the Thai Bankers’ Association and the Thai Chamber of Commerce, to a meeting next Wednesday to discuss ways they could help secure more vaccines.

All this came on the same day as it was announced that American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had agreed to sell Thailand 10 million doses of its…

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