BMA Uses COVID-19 Vaccine in Bang Khae
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to inoculate people in Bang Kae district against COVID-19 to contain the disease there as soon as possible.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to inoculate people in Bang Kae district against COVID-19 to contain the disease there as soon as possible.
A doctor, who fainted after receiving the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Ratchaburi has recovered.
Two more producers of COVID-19 vaccine are applying for vaccine registration with the Food and Drug Administration.
The first 35,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine were distributed to 13 provinces and no severe side effects have been reported among recipients so far, said the spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he felt no side effects in 24 hours after COVID-19 inoculation.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ceremonially accepted the first lot of 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China while emphasizing people still have to wear face masks despite the vaccine acquisition.
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul showed the local registration of Sinovac vaccine.
The Faculty of Medicine of Chualongkorn University will test its COVID-19 vaccine in volunteers in either late April or early May after successful trial in monkeys last year.
The delivery of COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca Co will be delayed and vaccination in the country may not start on Feb 14 as earlier planned, said Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
The chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce said the special long holidays that the government announced would be beneficial to tourism.
The Food and Drug Administration will fine a private hospital for advertising a COVID-19 vaccine without registration and stressed that it controlled the local availability of all vaccines.