Thailand to purchase 2m doses of Chinese vaccine

[snoop1130]

Thailand to purchase 2m doses of Chinese vaccine

By The Nation

 

Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a budget of Bt1.3 billion to procure 2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac.

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the first 200,000 doses should arrive in Thailand in February, followed by another 800,000 in late March and 1 million by late April.

 

The government has also signed an agreement for an additional 35 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which are due to arrive in May or June. Thailand had already ordered 26 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

 

"The total doses of Covid-19 vaccine ordered will be enough to inoculate 60 million people, who will receive two doses per person," said Prayut.

 

All of the Covid-19 vaccines ordered must be approved by Thai and international health authorities, he said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30400712

 

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[YetAnother]

10 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The total doses of Covid-19 vaccine ordered will be enough to inoculate 60 million people

ok; now reduce that by usual 35 % estimated corruption, the usual thai inefficiency (hard to tell but let's say 30%); now you are down 60 %; and then add the balkers

[anchadian]

Chinese vaccine.  No thank you.

[RotBenz8888]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Chinese vaccine

I'm thinking Nocebo effect here.... 

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a budget of Bt1.3 billion to procure 2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac.

Reminds me, the Goonies is on later !

[Patts]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a budget of Bt1.3 billion to procure 2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac.

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the first 200,000 doses should arrive in Thailand in February, followed by another 800,000 in late March and 1 million by late April.

So in 3 months time Thailand will have only received 1 million doses which is only enough to vaccinate 500k people. Mass vaccinations won't start until late May/June............Why wait so long to procure the vaccine when most other nations placed their orders back in September?

 

The following countries have already started vaccinations:

UK 

France

Belgium

Latvia

The Netherlands

Switzerland

Serbia

Russia

China

Iceland

Turkey

America

Canada

Argentina

India

Bahrain 

UAE

Edited January 5, 2021 by Patts

[darksidedog]

35 million quality doses for Thai people and foreigners ready to pay, and 2 million Chinese doses for the foreign workers no doubt, where ineffectiveness or possible side effects won't trouble those in charge.

[dinsdale]

Great isn't it. Pay the people who started the whole thing.

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the first 200,000 doses should arrive in Thailand in February, followed by another 800,000 in late March and 1 million by late April.

With that speed of about 1 million doses per month, the whole country will be vaccinated 2026. Hurray!

[cyril sneer]

15 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Great isn't it. Pay the people who started the whole thing.

That was China’s plan from the beginning 

[fishtank]

Was this vaccine produced in Woohan?

[herfiehandbag]

5 minutes ago, fishtank said:

Was this vaccine produced in Woohan?

Well I understand that there is a big virus research institute there...

[greg71]

Sinovac Biotech in early December last year secured a $515 million funding for the vaccine production from China-based Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd, a subsidiary of the Charoen Pokphand Group. The investment gave Sino Biopharmaceutical a 15% stake in Sinovac Life Sciences, the unit in charge of CoronaVac production. 

Thailand-based Siam Bioscience Co Ltd, 100%-owned by the Crown Property Bureau, produces the vaccines for AstraZenaca, with a capacity of 200 million doses a year for exports to Asean.

[Natai Beach]

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

35 million quality doses for Thai people and foreigners ready to pay, and 2 million Chinese doses for the foreign workers no doubt, where ineffectiveness or possible side effects won't trouble those in charge.

No doubt? 
 

Not true.
The Chinese vaccine will be the first to arrive and it is for health workers in public, private and village health volunteers. They won’t be wasting it on foreigners. 
 

This has been widely reported. On TV all day, everyday. I am not sure who told you that it will given to migrant workers? 

 

The Nation report also forgot to mention that Thailand have started vaccine production with a formula and technology developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, with supplies ready in May and will produce enough eventually for all of ASEAN.

 

[Natai Beach]

46 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

That was China’s plan from the beginning 

Who told you that one?
 

Sacrifice thousands of trillions supplying the world with all its “stuff” to make one trillion on a vaccine? 
 

Simply doesn’t make sense.

[Mango Bob]

I will never take any vaccine from China or Russia.  These people lie about their testing.  Let the PM and his cabinet take it.  That my be the way to get a new government.

[ukrules]

Mere window dressing, these will not be used until phase 3 trials have completed, if ever.

[Mango Bob]

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Edited January 5, 2021 by Mango Bob

[asiasurfer]

Sorry. But I somehow don't believe a damn thing. Won't it just come down to this: Vaccine for those who can pay... 

[Moonlover]

 

 

13 hours ago, Patts said:

So in 3 months time Thailand will have only received 1 million doses which is only enough to vaccinate 500k people. Mass vaccinations won't start until late May/June............Why wait so long to procure the vaccine when most other nations placed their orders back in September?

 

The following countries have already started vaccinations:

UK 

France

Belgium

Latvia

The Netherlands

Switzerland

Serbia

Russia

China

Iceland

Turkey

America

Canada

Argentina

India

Bahrain 

UAE

All of the countries that you list have had major outbreaks of Covid 19 and are no doubt in desperate of these vaccines.

 

Thailand has already demonstrated that it can handle the virus without recourse to vaccines and I'm sure they will do so again this time around. Vaccines are therefor a lower priority.

 

Nonetheless, it will be good to know that the population will, at last, be safe and totally free of this scourge.

[AmySeeker]

er yeah .... i think i'll stick to the Oxford one thanks. 

Edited January 6, 2021 by AmySeeker

[Heng]

As soon as we're free to travel (even if free means... a couple of hoops and testing), then we'll probably just hop over to Singapore to get our shots.   And that'll only be after we watch the rest of the world get these shots for half a year or so just to see what happens. 

[Patts]

5 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

 

All of the countries that you list have had major outbreaks of Covid 19 and are no doubt in desperate of these vaccines.

 

Thailand has already demonstrated that it can handle the virus without recourse to vaccines and I'm sure they will do so again this time around. Vaccines are therefor a lower priority.

 

Nonetheless, it will be good to know that the population will, at last, be safe and totally free of this scourge.

That's not really the point I was making. Thailand will not return to some form of normality e.g no 14 day quarantine until the population has been vaccinated. 

[Moonlover]

17 minutes ago, Patts said:

That's not really the point I was making. Thailand will not return to some form of normality e.g no 14 day quarantine until the population has been vaccinated. 

Not, in fact until the whole world has been vaccinated. They won't feel confident about tourism until it has.

[ourmanflint]

Sinovac vaccine is only recommended for people aged 18-59 years old, wonder if the all the old Generals realise that? It is not recommended for anyone over 60

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4735/rr-0

[Scott]

Conspiraccy posts reported and removed.

 

[Joseph98765]

I' ll wait till end of the year so I can see more videos like this with side effects... 55555

 

https://youtu.be/wL2Hc1IzUsc

 

Edited January 7, 2021 by Joseph98765

[Patts]

On 1/6/2021 at 8:23 AM, Moonlover said:

Not, in fact until the whole world has been vaccinated. They won't feel confident about tourism until it has.

That's exactly my point, Thailands biggest tourism markets: China, Russia, USA, UK and Europe are going to be at least 6-12 months ahead of Thailand in vaccinating their whole population so while these countries with have millions of tourists wanting to going to Thailand, tourists will not go if they have to jump through hoops and do as 14 day quarantine. Thailand need to pull their finger out and get the whole population vaccinated ASAP.  

Edited January 7, 2021 by Patts

[Moonlover]

22 minutes ago, Patts said:

That's exactly my point, Thailands biggest tourism markets: China, Russia, USA, UK and Europe are going to be at least 6-12 months ahead of Thailand in vaccinating their whole population so while these countries with have millions of tourists wanting to going to Thailand, tourists will not go if they have to jump through hoops and do as 14 day quarantine. Thailand need to pull their finger out and get the whole population vaccinated ASAP.  

Well in reality, vaccinate all those in Thailand who are ever likely to be in contact with tourists. It's back to this 'travel bubble' thing that has been talked about previously.

 

If Thailand can create a 'sterile bubble' within which tourists can freely move around in, they can drop their guard regarding quarantine. I'll take some planning though.