BANGKOK, March 16 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to inoculate people in Bang Khae district against COVID-19 to contain the disease there as soon as possible.
Representatives of BMA and the Public Health Ministry discussed the inoculation that was set to start tomorrow to cover 500 people daily and eventually about 6,000 people living in the district in total.
Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang said the inoculation targeted people at markets and their vicinities in Bang Khae and they included vendors, their families and people in close contact with them.
The Public Health Ministry agreed with the urgent vaccination in the district in order to contain the disease and vaccine recipients must be asymptomatic, he said.
The vaccination was set at Bang Khae market. It would start at 9am and continue until about 6,000 people get the jabs, the governor said.
Prof Emeritus Dr Amorn Leelarasamee, president of the Medical Council of Thailand, said the inoculation for all at-risk people at markets in Bang Khae was aimed at containing the disease in the area as soon as possible. The people who tested positive for COVID-19 would be brought to treatment without vaccination because they already developed immunity by themselves. (TNA)
