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Vaccines ‘to arrive this month’ as planned

Vaccines ‘to arrive this month’ as planned

‘New wave’ spurred fast-tracking action

Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit, the Public Health Ministry’s permanent secretary.

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday expressed its confidence that two Covid-19 vaccines from the UK and China would arrive later this month as scheduled, despite warning signs to the contrary, especially the EU’s order to suspend AstraZeneca’s vaccine shipments outside its territory.

The ministry has hastened its original plan to receive the vaccine by the middle of the month following a massive virus outbreak among migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province last December, which has led to more than 10,000 infections in that one province alone.

It ordered 200,000 additional doses from…

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