Paphamon Arayasukawat

BANGKOK (NNT) - Another batch of 800,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine has arrived in Thailand on Saturday and would be distributed to medical personnel and at-risk groups nationwide.

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the remaining 1 million doses of the country’s first order of 2 million shots from China-based Sinovac Biotech would arrive as scheduled next month.

He said the ministry planned to buy more than 5 million doses of vaccine from Sinovac. The order was under discussion between the government and the company.

Mr. Anutin added that the ministry had never hampered efforts by the private sector to import vaccines or the registration of shots by other manufacturers. The ministry stands ready to facilitate the private sector in importing the vaccines to serve people since the move would ease the burden of the government.

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Somebody Has to be earning from this!

28 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

 

Mr. Anutin added that the ministry had never hampered efforts by the private sector to import vaccines or the registration of shots by other manufacturers. The ministry stands ready to facilitate the private sector in importing the vaccines to serve people since the move would ease the burden of the government

Who is Anutin trying to blame then for the Government shutting down the provincial area local administration's plans, like in Phuket, whose plans were shut down last month, as well as those private hospitals who were trying themselves to order vaccines. 

He is so confused that he can not remember what was said before or done. Must never have occurred then....

With Japan not opening up, and China supposedly set to allow tourists who have been Sinovacced..... looks like skiing in Harbin this year.   

as of yesterday only 55k vax were given (that out of 200k imported the last month).

I understand, that they keep it for out brakes, but than in bang kaen, with 350 infected and 100k population they plan only 6k jabs.

they suppose to give it immediately to health workers, and jab them as soon as the second batch arrives.

Looks, like they are unable to organise more than several thousand per day.

With planned 330k per day from July I do suspect it will be failure

 

14 minutes ago, thequietman said:

Somebody Has to be earning from this!

Thailands CP group has a 15% stake in the vaccine producing Sinovac Life Sciences.

Kind of clears up why it is the vaccine of choice for Thailand...well...until Siam Biotech finally manages to produce the Astra Zenica vaccine...

19 minutes ago, DLock said:

Thailands CP group has a 15% stake in the vaccine producing Sinovac Life Sciences.

Kind of clears up why it is the vaccine of choice for Thailand...well...until Siam Biotech finally manages to produce the Astra Zenica vaccine...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now it makes perfect sense.  ????

 

 

Wow, they've still not managed to get rid of the previous Chinese batch rubbish and now C.P. has sold them more. 

800,000 ? UK vaccinated 711,156 people in one day yesterday. Let's see how many weeks and months it takes Thailand to roll out 800k

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218231.shtml
 

WHO did not approve it yet but it is already approved in Thailand. Most other vaccins seem to take awhile to get approval, which private hospitals are desperately waiting for to get started with their own purchases. 

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Who is Anutin trying to blame then for the Government shutting down the provincial area local administration's plans, like in Phuket, whose plans were shut down last month, as well as those private hospitals who were trying themselves to order vaccines. 

He is so confused that he can not remember what was said before or done. Must never have occurred then....

That fnckwit Anutin doesn’t care, he’s had the AZ vaccine. What a horrible piece of work this excuse of a man is. I hope he gets his comeuppance.

31 minutes ago, bluedoc said:

That fnckwit Anutin doesn’t care, he’s had the AZ vaccine. What a horrible piece of work this excuse of a man is. I hope he gets his comeuppance.

I thought Anutin took the Sinovac injection 

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Another batch of 800,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine has arrived in Thailand on Saturday and would be distributed to medical personnel and at-risk groups nationwide.

Brother in UK yesterday said that 26 million have had their first jabs... Thailand has a bit of catching up to do.

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The ministry stands ready to facilitate the private sector in importing the vaccines to serve people since the move would ease the burden of the government.

Well ! there,s an about turn.

" ease burden of the Government " explains it well me thinks,

Another 800,000 Doses of Chinese stuff has landed on Thai soil, so it should only take about 4 Months to administer it based on the performance of the first 200,000 Doses.

59 minutes ago, bluedoc said:

That fnckwit Anutin doesn’t care, he’s had the AZ vaccine. What a horrible piece of work this excuse of a man is. I hope he gets his comeuppance.

he had sinovac on the 28.2.

it was the rest of the government, who have received az

7 hours ago, thequietman said:

Somebody Has to be earning from this!

Of course there are people earning from covid 19 vaccines . 

If there was not a profit to be earned there would be no vaccines available .

In the UK PM Boris Johnson says Saturday was a record day for UK coronavirus vaccinations, with 873,784 people jabbed, pretty impressive https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-56474181

 

I wonder how many months it will take Thailand to administer the latest batch of 800K CP vaccines from China? Perhaps the Govt should start giving the jabs at 7/11's & Lotus's, that way it would be done in no time at all given all the branches throughout Thailand.. Start to finish deal from CP group... Special promotion, spend 500 baht or more and get a free injection..

11 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Brother in UK yesterday said that 26 million have had their first jabs... Thailand has a bit of catching up to do.

Three days in a row UK breaking records for jabs administered per day. Latest 740k, one every 27 seconds they reckon. The 800k Thai gotwould last just over a day. Shows what can be done by countries where there is the political and social will.

17 hours ago, dendijk said:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218231.shtml
 

WHO did not approve it yet but it is already approved in Thailand. Most other vaccins seem to take awhile to get approval, which private hospitals are desperately waiting for to get started with their own purchases. 

It's been roughly 6 weeks since J&J filed for approval from the Thai government.  The typically slow US FDA approved the vaccine ~3.5 weeks after filing for regulatory approval.  IIRC the data from JnJ is much tighter than that for both AZ's and Sinovac's.  But after 6 weeks no word yet from the Thai government on when JnJ's might be approved.  

4 minutes ago, pseudorabies said:

It's been roughly 6 weeks since J&J filed for approval from the Thai government.  The typically slow US FDA approved the vaccine ~3.5 weeks after filing for regulatory approval.  IIRC the data from JnJ is much tighter than that for both AZ's and Sinovac's.  But after 6 weeks no word yet from the Thai government on when JnJ's might be approved.  

No rush please, they have all they want from their friends in China and C.P. is making sure of that to fill its coffers and stake in the company.

6 hours ago, Petey11 said:

Three days in a row UK breaking records for jabs administered per day. Latest 740k, one every 27 seconds they reckon. The 800k Thai gotwould last just over a day. Shows what can be done by countries where there is the political and social will.

Yes because the developed world has snapped up all the grouse and left the developing world in the lurch as usual. 

   Sure Thailand made some bad choices and cp influence has potentially denied them access to something different but outside of Thailand the rest of the developing world is pretty much fnckd.  The US has got most of the vaccine and those ctnnts don't even want to take it.

   And if Thailand's distribution was even a quarter of the amazing things the UK was doing what would they do on Thursday when they run out of vaccine?

  Easy to ramp up when you have all the access

  Even developed nations aren't sharing what chance the world's disadvantaged? 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-05/italy-eu-block-250000-astrazeneca-doses-to-australia/13218348

 

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2021/march/20210310_covid19-vaccines

Just what Thailand needs: yet more Chinese junk. 

7 minutes ago, RocketDog said:

Just what Thailand needs: yet more Chinese junk. 

Well that will only be for the "peasants" the hi-so won't be taking that <deleted>.

 They haven't cared about them since it was Siam is anyone under the impression that anything will change?

7 hours ago, starky said:

Yes because the developed world has snapped up all the grouse and left the developing world in the lurch as usual. 

   Sure Thailand made some bad choices and cp influence has potentially denied them access to something different but outside of Thailand the rest of the developing world is pretty much fnckd.  The US has got most of the vaccine and those ctnnts don't even want to take it.

   And if Thailand's distribution was even a quarter of the amazing things the UK was doing what would they do on Thursday when they run out of vaccine?

  Easy to ramp up when you have all the access

  Even developed nations aren't sharing what chance the world's disadvantaged? 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-05/italy-eu-block-250000-astrazeneca-doses-to-australia/13218348

 

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2021/march/20210310_covid19-vaccines

True but there are vaccines out there to be purchased by those with the will and organizational skills.  As an example look at how this graph from the Financial Times shows that Thailand's neighbors have vastly outperformed Thailand wrt vaccination rates -

 

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/?areas=gbr&areas=isr&areas=usa&areas=eue&cumulative=1&populationAdjusted=1