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Thailand to get 2 million shots of China’s Sinovac

Officers offload a box of Sinovac’s vaccine for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as it arrives at the cold room of Indonesia’s local health department in Palembang, South Sumatra province, Indonesia, on Monday. (Antara Foto/Nova Wahyudi/ via Reuters)

Thailand will get its first lot of Covid-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd next month, allowing the country in the middle of a resurgence of the coronavirus outbreak to begin inoculating people with the highest risks for infections.

The Chinese vaccine in three batches, with the first 200,000 doses arriving in February, 800,000 in March, and another 1 million in April, according to the Health Ministry. Thailand has also started local production of vaccines developed by AstraZeneca Plc under a technology transfer agreement, which is expected to be…

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