reader Posted October 18, 2021 Posted October 18, 2021 From Bangkok Post Thailand will stop using the Covid-19 vaccine of China's Sinovac when its current stock finishes, a senior Public Health Ministry official said on Monday, having used the shot extensively in combination with Western-developed vaccines. Thailand used over 31.5 million Sinovac doses since February, starting with two doses to frontline workers, high-risk groups and residents of Phuket, the holiday island that reopened to tourists in July in a pilot scheme. In July, Thailand started inoculating people with Sinovac as a first dose followed by the Oxford University-developed AstraZeneca. Thailand was the first country to combine a Chinese and Western shots, a strategy its health officials said has proved effective. "We expect to have distributed all Sinovac doses this week," said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, the Department of Disease Control director-general, adding the programme will switch to combining the AstraZeneca vaccine with that made by Pfizer and BioNTech. Thailand next year plans to buy 120 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in total and has already booked 60 million doses of AstraZeneca, a vaccine it manufactures locally. Thailand has said it will only procure vaccines effective against new variants. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2199827/thailand-to-cease-sinovac-vaccine-use-when-stocks-end-this-month t0oL1, floridarob, TMax and 1 other 4 Quote
spoon Posted October 18, 2021 Posted October 18, 2021 Finally, they started to make some sense. Quote
Members Lonnie Posted October 18, 2021 Members Posted October 18, 2021 On 10/18/2021 at 11:28 AM, reader said: will switch to combining the AstraZeneca vaccine with that made by Pfizer and BioNTech. Expand TMax 1 Quote
traveller123 Posted October 19, 2021 Posted October 19, 2021 I wonder what they intend to give the millions of people who have received a combination of jabs including Sinovac Quote
