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Thailand to get 2 mil doses of Sinovac vaccine

First shipment of 200,000 doses expected to arrive by end-February

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 04 Jan 2021 11:00PM

Thailand to get 2 mil doses of Sinovac vaccine
Thailand is racing to contain its second Covid-19 wave. – Pixabay pic, January 4, 2021

BANGKOK – Thailand will receive two million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd starting next month, amid the kingdom’s second wave of infections.

The Public Health Ministry, in a statement, said the first shipment of 200,000 doses is expected to arrive by end-February, 800,000 doses by end-March, and a million doses by end-April.

The country is racing to contain its latest outbreak, which originated at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon province in the middle of last month.

Cases linked to the cluster have been detected in the capital here and 52 provinces. – Bernama, January 4, 2021

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