Lawmakers in Thailand are demanding answers over the governments failure to to reveal the contents of the contract for procuring the AstraZeneca vaccine and alleged faults during the management of vaccine allocation.
Thailand’s main opposition Pheu Thai Party on Tuesday demanded the Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul replace the director-general of the Department of Disease Control for his failings to the people of Thailand.
In a meeting of a House sub-committee on vaccine procurement at the parliament building on Tuesday, Yutthapong Charasathien, Pheu Thai MP for Maha Sarakham, insisted the DDC must disclose the government’s vaccine deal with AstraZeneca.
The lawmakers also demanded to know why the department continued to buy vaccines from Sinovac which critics say are less effective than other brands in guarding against the delta variant of the…
