A new vaccine for Covid-19 that is entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic...

Existing vaccines from companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson must be produced in specialized factories using hard-to-acquire ingredients. In contrast, the new vaccine can be mass-produced in chicken eggs — the same eggs that produce billions of influenza vaccines every year in factories around the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/health/hexapro-mclellan-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

The name of the vaccine is NVD-HXP-S

I don't see price mentioned there anywhere.

but astrazeneca is EU is only $2.18, while thailand payed $7.78 (plus minimum 600mln baht to a private company siam bioscience to build a factory) so making $9.4 per shot.

still cheaper than 650b ($22) for emergency buy of sinovac.

The more expensive vax is, the bigger size of grey envelopes are. Don't expect any change in this habit because of the pandemic. Across the world fortunes were made within the last year on emergency buy of masks, gloves, ppe, respirators, medicines for covid.

and if thai government official is involved in production of this new vax, one can be afraid of it substandard quality, in name of "saving"

 

GPO to start clinical trial phase 1/2 of a COVID-19 vaccine

 

The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) is planning to initiate early-stage clinical evaluation of a NDV-HXP-S COVID-19 vaccine candidate at Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. The trial will recruit 460 volunteers both males and females at aged between 18 to 75 years old.

 

https://www.gpo.or.th/view/397