Bangkok to inoculate 50,000 people per day, vaccinating 70% of its population

[snoop1130]

Airport staff receive a dose of the Covid-19 coronavirus CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac firm, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on April 28, 2021. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)

 

Bangkok plans to inoculate 70% of its inhabitants, at the rate of 50,000 people per day. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will set up 14 locations across the city, outside hospitals, starting June 1st.

 

Bangkok Governor, Aswin Kwanmuang, said that the BMA has joined forces with the Thai Chamber of Commerce to organise the campaign, in which those aged over 60 and those with congenital diseases will be inoculated first.

 

The governor said everyone in Bangkok, including the vulnerable, are covered by the plan. They might, however, consider allocating vaccines to other groups, if the inoculation plan does not meet its goal.

 

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[ikke1959]

I don/t understand. Mr Prayuth said that the standard vaccination would be Astra Zenica, but they use a lot of Sinovac too...Or do they relabel the sinovac??

[bwpage3]

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

[tomazbodner]

7 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

There are not 66 million people living in Bangkok.

[Sheryl]

For those who may be wondering - the term used in Thai for chronic disease wrongly translates in google translate as congenital disease.

 

Congenital diseases have nothing whatsoever to do with it. Wish the English language media would get the translation corrected as it is very misleading. But as they have been mistranslating this from day one it is likely to continue.

[anchadian]

Population of Bangkok is approx 11m x 2 shots = 22m shots at 50,000 shots a day.

 

It would therefore take 440 days to fully vaccinate the whole of Bangkok.

[Sheryl]

Population of Bangkok is  a little under 11 million.

 

Presumably they mean only the adult population which is about 60-70% of the total.

 

Would take about 6-  7 months to fully immunize 70% of the adult population of Bangkok at 50,000 a day. 

 

There will be issues arising from the fact that a very high percenatge of people living in Bangkok  are listed on their ID as living elsewhere.

 

Not very feasible or desirable to have hordes of people crisscrossing the country (as happens for elections) on this account.

[Patong2021]

1 hour ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

Children.  The vaccines are not yet approved on under 16 year olds.

[foreverlomsak]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok plans to inoculate 70% of its inhabitants, at the rate of 50,000 people per day. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will set up 14 locations across the city, outside hospitals, starting June 1st.

14 Locations across Bangkok each with a capacity of between 1,000 and 2,000 per day falls woefully short of 50,000 per day. Somebody needs to teach them how to count.

[Sheryl]

4 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

14 Locations across Bangkok each with a capacity of between 1,000 and 2,000 per day falls woefully short of 50,000 per day. Somebody needs to teach them how to count.

"there are also currently 114 hospitals in Bangkok ready to inoculate people."

 

The 14 centers are additional ad hoc facilities on top of exisiting medical faciliti(actually it is not 114 hiospitals but 114 health facilities. Some are health centers)

[Sheryl]

19 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Children.  The vaccines are not yet approved on under 16 year olds.

Actually I had assumed they meant 70% of the adult population, not 100% of all adults. That is the only way it is possible to  do this by end of the year.

 

No vaccine program reaches 100%. They have set 70% of eligible people (i.e. adults) as their target

[Sheryl]

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I don/t understand. Mr Prayuth said that the standard vaccination would be Astra Zenica, but they use a lot of Sinovac too...Or do they relabel the sinovac??

Nothing is relabelled.

 

The plan is to make AZ gthe main vaccine.

 

They have been using Sinovac as an interim measure to immunize the certain  t priority groups (e.g. health workers) as they are waiting for local production of AZ vaccine.

 

The decision to rely in local production of a brand new vaccine and vaccine technology -- influenced I think by complacency because the first waves of this were mild and easily controlled -- is what has caused vaccination to be so slow in starting in Thailand.

[Sunderland]

30 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Nothing is relabelled.

 

The plan is to make AZ gthe main vaccine.

 

They have been using Sinovac as an interim measure to immunize the certain  t priority groups (e.g. health workers) as they are waiting for local production of AZ vaccine.

 

The decision to rely in local production of a brand new vaccine and vaccine technology -- influenced I think by complacency because the first waves of this were mild and easily controlled -- is what has caused vaccination to be so slow in starting 'in Thailand.

"They have been using Sinovac as an interim measure to immunize the certain to priority groups (e.g. politicians) as they are waiting for local production of AZ vaccine.

[smedly]

front line workers across the whole country should be first in line for vaccination - medical staff - medical support staff - police - transportation staff, then once they are all done by 2022 then a role out to the general public

[Susco]

1 hour ago, Sunderland said:

"They have been using Sinovac as an interim measure to immunize the certain to priority groups (e.g. politicians) as they are waiting for local production of AZ vaccine.

 

So what's the problem?

 

Sinovac is considered a mediocre vaccine among the "medical experts" this forum is full of, so better they give it to politicians instead of first line workers we don't want to lose.

[IamNoone88]

10 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

Do not forget that this is likely an annual vaccine ... so an impossible task at a 50k per day run rate. 

[IamNoone88]

70% of a population (any size distribution) at 50% efficacy = 35% of the entire distribution unlikely to need hospitalization for sickness while the remaining 65% remains exposed to sickness requiring hospitalization..

[Dialemco]

Hooray better late than never however means Thaand will not be able to open up for Tourism for another year.

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The governor said everyone in Bangkok, including the vulnerable, are covered by the plan. They might, however, consider allocating vaccines to other groups, if the inoculation plan does not meet its goal.

So what happens to the 30% who don't get an injection... can they sue the government if they become infected?

[MrMo]

12 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

Now let's be fair.   He said "Bangkok".   That will take only 9 months,   Bangkok may then be able to attract tourists again by next March.   At least it will be in time for Songkran 2022.

As to us lot out in the boonies, your guess is as good as mine as to when we will get the needle.

 

[hioctane]

LOL. People need to learn math.

 

Population of Bangok in 2021: 10.7M

Eligible population.. Adults (about 80%): 8.56M

Target 70%: 6M

@ 50,000 a day = 120 days (~ 4 months)

[BadSpottedDog]

13 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

Maybe they know that not everyone can or will take it.

[AlfHuy]

13 hours ago, bwpage3 said:

70% of 66,000,000 people = 46,200,000 people /50,000 jabs per day = 924 days /365 days per year = 2.5 years to vaccinate 70% of the population.

 

What about the other 30%?

 

Migrants illegally entering Thailand?

 

Tourists?

 

 

 

 

And why can't they vaccine the whole population.

Oh, sorry, 70% done, you don't get any vaccine and sorry that you can't travel abroad as you won't get a vaccine certificate.

 

Solly, krub.

[AlfHuy]

11 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Actually I had assumed they meant 70% of the adult population, not 100% of all adults. That is the only way it is possible to  do this by end of the year.

 

No vaccine program reaches 100%. They have set 70% of eligible people (i.e. adults) as their target

And what's about the so called vaccine passport. To travel, you probably will need it in the future. No vaccine, no passport, no liberty.

[hioctane]

16 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

 

 

And why can't they vaccine the whole population.

Oh, sorry, 70% done, you don't get any vaccine and sorry that you can't travel abroad as you won't get a vaccine certificate.

 

Solly, krub.

In all vaccinations, the target is 70% of a population. That is the estimated time when things will start getting back to normal and the virus grinds to halt in spreading. Of course, they will continue vaccinating.

 

Also, you overestimate how many Thais actually travel abroad.

[BritManToo]

6 hours ago, hioctane said:

In all vaccinations, the target is 70% of a population. That is the estimated time when things will start getting back to normal and the virus grinds to halt in spreading.

 

This is true for vaccines which give people immunity to catching the disease.

 

I predict it won't work at all, and we'll be living in an endless cycle of lockdowns and infection waves with all recreational travel (for everyone except the extremely wealthy) being severely restricted, and international travel being almost non-existent.

[hioctane]

2 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

70% of a population (any size distribution) at 50% efficacy = 35% of the entire distribution unlikely to need hospitalization for sickness while the remaining 65% remains exposed to sickness requiring hospitalization..

That is not what efficacy means. AZ vaccines prevents 100% of the vaccinated from needing hospitalization. Sinovac prevents 80%+. 

[lks7689]

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

This is true for vaccines which give people immunity to catching the disease.

 

I predict it won't work at all, and we'll be living in an endless cycle of lockdowns and infection waves with all recreational travel (for everyone except the extremely wealthy) being severely restricted, and international travel being almost non-existent.

 

So what your proposition? Sit around do nothing? 

[VocalNeal]

12 hours ago, Sheryl said:

influenced I think by complacency

 

No, influenced by profit?

[sanuk711]

13 hours ago, anchadian said:

Population of Bangkok is approx 11m x 2 shots = 22m shots at 50,000 shots a day.

I think the population is a lot higher than that anchadian--I know you can google near to 11 million , but its widely recognized that these are people in their "Blue Book system" so many people living working in BKK have their homes down as Ban Knock---you can see this when something like Songran comes up and the place empties out.