Thailand says Russia agrees to supply Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

[snoop1130]

 

Russia has accepted a request to provide Thailand with its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, a Thai official said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation steps up efforts to find more vaccines ahead of its mass immunisation drive.

 

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has promised to find 35 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines from different companies on top of existing orders of around 65 million doses, while the country battles its fastest-spreading outbreak yet.

 

“President Vladimir Putin has expressed his support for the Thai government on this matter,” government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said.

 

“Our health ministry will now urgently talk to the company importing the Sputnik V vaccine on the timeframe for delivery, the amount and price,” he said.

 

Thailand, which has been credited for its swift containment of previous outbreaks, has yet to start mass vaccinations and its plan until recently was centered almost entirely on 61 million doses of AstraZeneca’s, which a local firm will manufacture.

 

However, it is now looking to diversify its sources of vaccines, amid competition for global supplies and as it tackles a third wave of infections that has seen about 40% of its total cases reported in the past three weeks alone.

 

Health officials on Thursday said Thailand may have hit the peak of that wave, which include the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 variant.

 

“We project that the number of cases will gradually drop in one or two weeks,” Opas Karnkawinpong, Director-General of the Disease Control Department said.

 

Thailand reported seven new deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, its highest number of fatalities in a single day, taking its overall total to 117. It also reported 1,470 infections, taking total cases to 48,113.

 

Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul held talks on Thursday with a representative of Pfizer, which he said would provide Thailand with 10 million doses of its vaccine.

 

“The main thing is the timeframe for the delivery, the price is not a concern and people’s safety is more important,” Anutin said.

 

Thailand has been using Sinovac Biotech’s vaccine for its initial inoculations, of mainly frontline health workers, as well as imported doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

 

So far, nearly 865,000 people have received at least one shot.

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Martin Petty)

 

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[Chang_paarp]

First Sonovac, now Sputnik. They must be cheap.

[PatOngo]

Can't they find something cheaper? ????

[Flying Saucage]

Russia lacks production capacities, but does a lot of "vaccine-diplomacy" by selling far more doses to other countries than they are capable to produce.

 

Officials from Slovakia complained last week already, because besides the name, the Sputnik V vaccine they received had nothing in common with the approved original vaccine. Highly suspicious.

 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-slovak-voices-misgivings-sputnik-vaccine.html

 

 

Edited April 22, 2021 by Flying Saucage

[internationalism]

sinovac was not cheap, 650b per vial for the first batch 2mln.

Thai have ordered another 2mln.

at $21 per vial it's more expensive, as many other ones.

But thailand has no choice, has to buy anything and for any price.

They waited far too long.

So I won't be surprised if they pay also over $20 for sputnik. Blame thailand for not planning for the future waves and new strains 

Edited April 22, 2021 by internationalism

[John Drake]

First, vaccine from China. Now, vaccine from Russia. Do Iran and North Korea have a vaccine?

[boogiewoogie]

12 minutes ago, Flying Saucage said:

Russia lacks production capacities, but does a lot of "vaccine-diplomacy" by selling far more doses to other countries than they are capable to produce.

 

Officials from Slovakia complained last week already, because besides the name, the Sputnik V vaccine they received had nothing in common with the approved original vaccine. Highly suspicious.

 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-slovak-voices-misgivings-sputnik-vaccine.html

 

 

 

U forgot about "licensing". U don't need to have production sites if u can outsource it. 

[boogiewoogie]

4 minutes ago, John Drake said:

First, vaccine from China. Now, vaccine from Russia. Do Iran and North Korea have a vaccine?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/health/russia-sputnik-v-phase-3-intl/index.html

 

U wish u had ur hands on 91.6 vaccine right now buddy. Even if ISIS discovered it.

[kotsak]

An interesting video regarding vaccine efficacy

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

51 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Can't they find something cheaper? ????

Why it comes with a free rocket ship and will help Thailand get to the moon.

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, kotsak said:

An interesting video regarding vaccine efficacy

 

 

Very interesting in the way they explain when the different trials took place and what variants were in play at the time, and now it makes perfect sense as to why efficacy rates are not all that makes a vaccine a proper fit.  Thanks

[bkk6060]

Terrible and an embarrassment to the watching western world.

[2 is 1]

On 2 February 2021, an interim analysis from the trial was published in The Lancet, indicating 91.6% efficacy without unusual side effects.

Sputnik is like AZ and J&J vaccine and actualy maybe not so sht what all think! Problem is, nobody get enough vaccine!

 

[Pattaya Spotter]

One of the best out there according to The Lancet...I'm in!

 

Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine candidate appears safe and effective

 

Denis Logunov and colleagues1 report their interim results from a phase 3 trial of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in The Lancet. The trial results show a consistent strong protective effect across all participant age groups...

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00191-4/fulltext

Edited April 22, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[Flying Saucage]

19 minutes ago, boogiewoogie said:

 

U forgot about "licensing". U don't need to have production sites if u can outsource it. 

 

And? Does that explain why Slovakia received a completely different vaccine than ordered? What about QC?

 

[Swimfan]

19 minutes ago, kotsak said:

An interesting video regarding vaccine efficacy

 

 

Two days ago from the Moscow Times 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/04/20/russias-claims-of-976-sputnik-v-efficacy-under-the-spotlight-a73669

[boogiewoogie]

5 minutes ago, Flying Saucage said:

 

And? Does that explain why Slovakia received a completely different vaccine than ordered? What about QC?

 

 

No idea. But it looks a bit suspicious. Russia asked them to send samples to EU test facilities, they refused. Russia asked them to ship it all back for inspection. They refused that aswell.

 

And for some unknown reason they already planning to jab this very same vaccine anyway.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/slovak-pm-sees-sputnik-v-jabs-by-may-despite-rows-with-russia-regulators-2021-04-15/

 

Looks like PR brouhaha. 

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

37 minutes ago, John Drake said:

First, vaccine from China. Now, vaccine from Russia. Do Iran and North Korea have a vaccine?

Next on my glass bowl prediction:

India (if it helps against their latest mutation???? which some cry alarm about, would ridicule the whole vaccination campaign).

 

Yesterday I wrote Sputnik in the thread about the "2 or 3 companies".

[Nojohndoe]

47 minutes ago, kotsak said:

An interesting video regarding vaccine efficacy

 

 

The basic  message in this is exactly what people need to  comprehend !

 

[Forza2002]

European Govt's have mixed reviews about Sputnik vaccine. Also, how effective is it going to be with just 1 dose? Looks like Thailand are going to take a long time before the majority of the population is fully inoculated ie. 2 Jabs.. https://www.dw.com/en/is-sputnik-v-vaccine-safe/a-57219314

 

No doubt it's a case of cheap vaccines for the serfs, AZ for the Elite 1%...

Edited April 22, 2021 by Forza2002

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

First Sonovac, now Sputnik. They must be cheap.

They are suddenly scrabbling around for anything they can get. Maybe how unpopular this whole fiasco has become is starting to sink in?

[Jingthing]

Sputnik is clearly being used by Russia as a propaganda tool but if it's safe and effective sign me up. Face it if we're in Thailand we need to trust the Thai health authorities to judge on that whether its Sputnik  Astrazenica, or anything else. So you bare your arm you take your chances. If I do get Sputnicked it won't magically make me love Putin though.

[Jingthing]

4 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

They are suddenly scrabbling around for anything they can get. Maybe how unpopular this whole fiasco has become is starting to sink in?

Wait a second. Are you saying they're accountable to how people feel? Who knew?

[Meat Pie 47]

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Can't they find something cheaper? ????

you mean safer?

[Meat Pie 47]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

First, vaccine from China. Now, vaccine from Russia. Do Iran and North Korea have a vaccine?

yes they use bullets

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

An interesting video regarding vaccine efficacy

 

 

Excellent, not often do I watch a video to the end.

 

To me this shows quite clearly why real world data once the vaccines are administered to millions of people is so much more reliable than the trial data. Thankfully that real world data is already filtering through for some vaccine brands. 

[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Thailand, which has been credited for its swift containment of previous outbreaks

 

credited by who .? Few Western media and news organisations were fulsome of praise for the apparent " success " in their warding it off last year .. 

 

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

“The main thing is the timeframe for the delivery, the price is not a concern and people’s safety is more important,” Anutin said.

 

Fibbing toad .. the reason they are so way off course and behind schedule is down to trying to cut deals with manufacturers based on cost alone all the while those manufacturers order books were filling by the day with orders from countries unconcerned with trying to chop the cost .. leaving Thailand effectively at the back of the queue for the vacc's that have been used in the West .. 

The statements about getting alternatives from here , there and everywhere are worthless .. it is symptomatic of the dislocated way they've gone at this since the penny dropped the only way to get foreigners to return is by vacc'ing the population with a coordinated comprehensive programme that is not ultimately dictated by cost .. 

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, boogiewoogie said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/health/russia-sputnik-v-phase-3-intl/index.html

 

U wish u had ur hands on 91.6 vaccine right now buddy. Even if ISIS discovered it.

The problem being this is another vaccine without fully published phase 3 results, the same as Sinovac. The results we have for Sputnik are interim only, so still to be published and then reviewed. 

 

Currently here is a review summary carried out by a large number of Universities and specialists around the world.

 

Concerns with the Sputnik V vaccine data

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n743/rr-1

 

 

Edited April 22, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[internationalism]

42 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

No doubt it's a case of cheap vaccines for the serfs, AZ for the Elite 1%...

there in vax for serfs.

AZ is 240b

sinovac 650b.

probably any other ones bought now would be more expensive, because emergency buy and acute shortage.

India might shutting shortly monthly production 170mln, shortage of 15 crucial components from the usa 

 

[The Hammer2021]

Great news!..Currently desperate Germans are visiting Moscow for vaccine tourism. Let's all wish this project great success and our support.