Siam Bioscience will deliver AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on time

[webfact]

 

By Subhabhong Rarueysong

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Siam Bioscience Co is confident that it will be able to deliver the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to the government in July as planned.

 

The company is in the process of sending samples of the vaccines it produced to several laboratories in Europe and the United States for quality and safety inspection.

 

Once the samples are approved by the labs, they will be sent to AstraZeneca, which will then register the vaccine with the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After getting FDA’s approval, Siam Bioscience will ramp up the production of the vaccines for using domestically.

 

Siam Bioscience said its plant is capable of producing vaccines at almost the same rate as other manufacturers in Australia and South Korea, as they use the same technology from AstraZeneca.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Wait I thought it was June.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-thailand/update-1-thailand-on-track-to-distribute-locally-made-covid-19-vaccines-in-june-idUSL1N2K40FF

Edited April 19, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[madmitch]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Wait I thought it was June.

Yep. I was about to say exactly this. NNT's subtle way of moving the goalposts?

Edited April 19, 2021 by madmitch

[ThailandRyan]

Just now, madmitch said:

Yep. I was about to say exactly this. NNT's subtle way of moving the goalposts?

I did post a link to a story indicating June as well. Goal posts changing daily or weekly to suit needs

[Shuya]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

After getting FDA’s approval, Siam Bioscience will ramp up the production of the vaccines for using domestically.

Whereas other companies produced millions of doses on the risk it might not be approved, just to be ready to deliver when it is. Anyway, no reason to hurry I guess... 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Shuya

[ourmanflint]

Some good news. Hope this works out as predicted, should be a great help getting Thailand back to normality quicker

[Scouse123]

1 hour ago, ourmanflint said:

Some good news. Hope this works out as predicted, should be a great help getting Thailand back to normality quicker

 

Except they should be doing it now instead of awaiting approval like other companies around the world.

 

If they have faith in their capabilities to produce the vaccine to the requirements of AstraZenica, make it now, stockpile and wait for approval.

 

Then the Thai FDA needs to get off its backside, stop the pointless pontificating and press interviews and get the vaccine out there to the public.

 

No rush for them, Prayut and cronies have had their jabs already!

[ikke1959]

as I thought they would deliver it in June, probably the 31st hahahaha....... Now they deliver it in July when??? unknown there 31 days and when they are delivered to the Government when do the people get there jabs?? 1, 2 weeks later perhaps, maybe, expected

Edited April 19, 2021 by ikke1959

[grandpa]

If they are ready to deliver in July, the Government have 2.5 months to set up vaccination centres throughout the land, not just Bangkok! They should start with all frontline medical staff, then other frontline staff e.g. police, rescue workers etc., then elderly and vulnerable people, then factory and production workers (where people work in close proximity to each other) then and only then should they start to think about Airline workers, not now!

[Destiny1990]

Good news by the end of August the ... ....... .. ...... roll out..

[ThailandRyan]

37 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Good news by the end of August the ... ....... .. ...... roll out..

August 2030?

[Fex Bluse]

I suspect the AZ farangs have been trying to skill up Siam Bioscience so that they can get the job done. This takes time. 

 

Nobody will mention it, however, as it wouldn't be polite. 

[thailand49]

Roll out announced was to begin in June?  Now production is on schedule for July?  Meantime two months since Pfizer, Moderna, J&J of late requested FDA to approved while other countries take a month to go over data. Yet Sino seem to be approved overnight with only a minimum of data?

 

Maybe delaying allows for the Thai vaccine 3rd phrase to catch up delaying only benefit one source I guess to monopolize the market so there is only one vaccine of choice meantime at the expense of the Thai people and economy which these leaders aren't affected by the impact!????

[Fromas]

One baby step at a time. TIT

[JimHuaHin]

June, which year?

 

Is anything in Thailand completed or delivered on time? New parliament house? New train tracks?

[mtls2005]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The company is in the process of sending samples of the vaccines it produced to several laboratories in Europe and the United States for quality and safety inspection.

 

Once the samples are approved by the labs, they will be sent to AstraZeneca, which will then register the vaccine with the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After getting FDA’s approval, Siam Bioscience will ramp up the production of the vaccines for using domestically.

 

 

This plan sounds fine for normal times, but maybe the government should take a risk and fund production of at least 10 million doses now, pending all these approvals.

 

 

Have the samples been sent (to Europe and the U.S.) yet? What is the current expected date for approval/denial?

 

Why can't samples be sent NOW to AZ, then they can register with the Thai FDA tomorrow?

 

 

Unless risks are taken I can see this process stretching out until the end of the year.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2021 by mtls2005

[herfiehandbag]

Why the rush?

 

The monopoly is established.

 

The people who matter have had their jabs.

 

Sabai sabai...

[bkk6060]

And they will be forced to stop it like many countries have due to blood clots.

What a waste..

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

And they will be forced to stop it like many countries have due to blood clots.

What a waste..

Well you've got the Chinese one to consider if you don't want the AZ? You've got more chance of being struck by lightening than getting a serious blod clot from AZ

[Jeffr2]

19 hours ago, Shuya said:

Whereas other companies produced millions of doses on the risk it might not be approved, just to be ready to deliver when it is. Anyway, no reason to hurry I guess... 

I don't believe Siam Bioscience has ever made jabs before.  A first for them.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK (NNT) - Siam Bioscience Co is confident that it will be able to deliver the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to the government in July as planned.

Hmm months are slipping by as usual, it was JUne.

Prayut could have avoided the 3rd wave if he had procured a vaccine earlier.

His refusal to buy anything and block anyone else from securing vaccines has now cost this country millions.

Just protecting Siam Bioscience.

 

[connda]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Siam Bioscience Co is confident that it will be able to deliver the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to the government in July as planned.

Translated:
"Damage Control, Damage Control - man your stations!"

[connda]

35 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

And they will be forced to stop it like many countries have due to blood clots.

What a waste..

Not really.  Thailand is a third world country and you-know-who owns you-know-what, therefore the first world could pull the AZ vaccine over safety concerns but history is replete with examples of third-world countries (especially Africa, Central Asia, and why not SE Asia) being the testing grounds for questionable vaccines.  AZ along with all the others are still "experimental vaccines" and all who take them are participating in global live trials.  So first-worlders make balk, but third-worlders don't have the sophistication to say, "No."

[connda]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

August 2030?

They keep "slipping the schedule" and then celebrate their success.

The Six Phases of Project Management:
1. Enthusiasm,
2. Disillusionment,
3. Panic,
4. Search for the guilty,
5. Punishment of the innocent, and
6. Praise and honor for the nonparticipants.

[connda]

19 hours ago, Shuya said:

Whereas other companies produced millions of doses on the risk it might not be approved, just to be ready to deliver when it is. Anyway, no reason to hurry I guess... 

All the vaccine manufacturers said that this first batch will be produced at cost.  So...no profit motive, so no reason to hurry.

[Excel]

3 minutes ago, connda said:

All the vaccine manufacturers said that this first batch will be produced at cost.  So...no profit motive, so no reason to hurry.

Not in this country have they said it will be produced at cost. 

[clivebaxter]

Originally the amount they were planned to produce a month from June was mentioned, now there is nothing said about the numbers, a million would be far too low, needs to be tens of millions a month. I see it was originally 18 million a month, is that still on?

Edited April 20, 2021 by clivebaxter

[Bkk Brian]

22 minutes ago, connda said:

All the vaccine manufacturers said that this first batch will be produced at cost.  So...no profit motive, so no reason to hurry.

Only AZ an J&J have stated that currently. Sinovac is a for profit venture.

[Jimbo2014]

Hey Wait - February, March, June, now July.  Well I guess if they keep changing the time then its on time ????

[Surelynot]

Hard to believe this could happen......

 

Workers accidentally conflated AstraZeneca vaccine ingredients with up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine........no way this could happen in Thailand.

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/politics/johnson-johnson-coronavirus-vaccine.html?smid=em-share