Thailand to launch nationwide Covid-19 vaccination in May

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Thailand to launch nationwide Covid-19 vaccination in May

By The Nation

 

 

Thailand’s Covid-19 vaccination programme will begin in May 2021, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC)’s action plan revealed on Thursday.

 

The country last week signed a Bt6-billion deal to buy 26 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to immunise 13 million people.

 

The vaccine will first have to pass safety and quality checks applied by the Thai Food and Drug Administration and Department of Medical Sciences under the Public Health Ministry, said DDC director-general Opas Karnkawinpong.

 

Secondly, the DDC will prepare vaccination centres at more than 10,000 subdistrict health promotion hospitals nationwide to reach communities quickly and prevent crowding in large hospitals. A cold-chain transport system to maintain vaccine quality is now being prepared, and officials are being trained for the mass vaccination programme. The first to be called for registration will be medical staff, young children, the elderly, and vulnerable groups.

 

Local health authorities will then summon registered participants for vaccination at health promotion hospitals or mobile health units.

The vaccinations will begin in May 2021, according the DDC action plan.

 

A programme to monitor any adverse side effects will run from July until January 2022.

 

A public information campaign will also explain that groups with high natural immunity don’t need to be vaccinated right away.

 

Opas confirmed that vaccination will be provided free of charge by the government. Private hospitals can source their own vaccine supply, he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399048

 

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[RotBenz8888 17,938]

7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A public information campaign will also explain that groups with high natural immunity don’t need to be vaccinated right away

So if you have tested positive for Ab, vaccination can wait? Until when? 

[GeorgeCross 6,733]

17 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The first to be called for registration will be medical staff, young children, the elderly, and vulnerable groups

 

wait, what?!

 

do these guys even know what at-risk groups actually are?

 

 

[Justgrazing 19,678]

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A cold-chain transport system to maintain vaccine quality is now being prepared, and officials are being trained for the mass vaccination programme.

 

17 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

The country last week signed a Bt6-billion deal to buy 26 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to immunise 13 million

 

Hmmm if it's going by road not all those 26 mil' are gonna make it to the syringe .. 

[n00dle 1,031]

6 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

o , let me guess, thais only; blackmarket (likely phonies) radically overpriced for you rich dirty farang

 

Gee, I wonder why they would focus on providing the free vaccine to thai citizens. Seems downright unreasonable to me .

 

Just how entitled are you?

Edited December 3, 2020 by n00dle

[n00dle 1,031]

Just now, GeorgeCross said:

 

wait, what?!

 

do these guys even know what at-risk groups actually are?

 

 

Children make perfect sense, if theyndont get it iin school, they can't bring it home.

 

Dont know if younhave ever had kids, but I have never had so many flus or colds as when my kid was in elementary school.

 

Dirty little virus beasts they are.

 

 

[Lingba 2,436]

6 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

 

wait, what?!

 

do these guys even know what at-risk groups actually are?

 

 

this bizarre...young children haven't even been tested yet...whoa nelly!

[GeorgeCross 6,733]

2 minutes ago, n00dle said:

Children make perfect sense, if theyndont get it iin school, they can't bring it home.

 

Dont know if younhave ever had kids, but I have never had so many flus or colds as when my kid was in elementary school.

 

Dirty little virus beasts they are.

 

 

 

i have kids and totally with you mate on the bringing stuff home thing lol! 

 

i just thought kids were practically immune to covid. isn't that why they keep primary schools open during lockdowns now?

 

[EricTh 2,909]

May? Why not January?

 

That means the economy is going to be closed for a long time.

 

[GeorgeCross 6,733]

Just now, EricTh said:

May? Why not January?

 

That means the economy is going to be closed for a long time.

 

 

i assume some other countries got their vaccine pre-orders in before them

 

[mr mr 5,653]

any foreigners wishing to stay in thailand will have to make the choice. 

[Traubert 4,720]

18 minutes ago, darrendsd said:

 

Never takes long for posts like this to arrive does it 

Regrettably not.

[ThailandRyan 16,875]

55 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The vaccine will first have to pass safety and quality checks

 

55 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Secondly, the DDC will prepare vaccination centres at more than 10,000 subdistrict health promotion hospitals nationwide to reach communities quickly and prevent crowding in large hospitals.

And then just a short 6 months from now the vaccine will be here.  Not likely.  Counting their chickens before they hatch.

 

But wait there is more.  I thought they were going to produce the vaccine here in Thailand with the contract.  I am so confused now.  But watch the baht will sky rocket on this great news of the second coming of Jesus Christ aka the Covid 19 vaccine.

[ourmanflint 2,484]

Prepare for some grandstanding by DDC director-general Opas Karnkawinpong. He's just become a VIP celebrity.

 

Good news for Thailand all the same

Edited December 3, 2020 by ourmanflint

[fishtank 4,044]

30 minutes ago, darrendsd said:

 

Never takes long for posts like this to arrive does it 

Probably because it is true.