BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has formally received 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine donated by the Chinese government, with the Minister of Public Health and China’s acting ambassador to Thailand signing the delivery.

 

The Minister of Public Health and the acting Ambassador of China to Thailand have signed the delivery of 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine donated by the Chinese government to Thailand in a ceremony.

 

This consignment arrived in Thailand on Friday, and is the first batch of a total of 1 million doses of China-donated Sinovac vaccine, adding to millions of doses purchased by Thailand from the Chinese vaccine manufacturer.

 

Minister Counsellor Yang Xin, acting as China’s Ambassador to Thailand, said the donation reflects the close relationship between China and Thailand, the goodwill of Chinese people towards Thai people, and the responsibility of the Chinese government towards the global community.

 

He said China was the first country to allow access by all countries to the country’s vaccines as a public right, not only by wealthy countries, even when the country still does not have sufficient vaccine supply for its inoculation program.

 

The Chinese government has already donated Chinese-made vaccines to some 80 countries, and exported purchase orders to around 50 countries. China has already given around 400 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines to its people, out of the 1.4 billion population.

 

With this latest delivery, Thailand has so far received 4.5 million doses of Sinovac vaccine, which is currently the main vaccine used in the country’s early-stage inoculation program. Another 1.5 million doses purchased by the Thai government will be arriving on time next week, according to the acting Chinese ambassador.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul, said today that Thailand has been receiving continual support from China in terms of vaccine imports, noting the acting Chinese ambassador’s recommendation to request the donation of 1 million doses from the Chinese government — with the understanding that some of the vaccine should be given to Chinese nationals residing in Thailand.

 

Mr Anutin said the Thai government has reached an agreement to procure additional doses from Sinovac every month, to ensure the country has a supply of vaccine to be given free of charge to the general public until the end of year, even in unexpected situations.

 

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25 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

with the understanding that some of the vaccine should be given to Chinese nationals residing in Thailand.

 

I wonder who the "lucky" two Chinese will be (it says "nationals" therefore more than one).

 

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Another 1.5 million doses purchased by the Thai government will be arriving on time next week

If they want to inject 500,000 persons per day, that's not gonna cut it...not by a long, well, shot...

Edited May 18, 20215 yr by Brunolem

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

I wonder who the "lucky" two Chinese will be (it says "nationals" therefore more than one).

 

 

         lucky or unlucky ? .. 

          Anything free ,  is not worth having ....555

Pattaya needs 20.000 asap lads

As they donated the virus its only fair ????

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the responsibility of the Chinese government towards the global community.

You should have taken this responsibility seriously in late 2019 when the bodies started piling up. Instead, you let people travel freely not only around Wuhan and the rest of China, but also abroad! So much of this could have been avoided/contained if you had listened to Dr Li Wenliang. 

 

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said China was the first country to allow access by all countries to the country’s vaccines as a public right, not only by wealthy countries

 

I don't think any wealthy countries need to buy sinovac.

 

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

even when the country still does not have sufficient vaccine supply for its inoculation program.

 

So generous.  I'm sure they will expect nothing in return.

1 hour ago, Khawphod said:

You simply envy. Russia and China will definitely win in the vaccine diplomacy race by flooding the world with their highly effective vaccines.
US has everything to win - scientists to create a vaccine, powerful media resources to advertise, army to stimulate sales. But suddenly they are loosing this competition. Just because their strange decision to use Sci-Fi vaccine carrier - mRNA, which is quite fragile and too hard in transportation. So I expect that even Iran will overtake the USA in the vaccine diplomacy race.

Edited May 18, 20215 yr by friendofthai

Instead of having a ceremony, just get jabs into people's arms... 

10 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

As they donated the virus its only fair ????

With all their knowledge on the virus don't you think they would have a better vaccine?

Anutin stated that some of the donated SinoVac should be given to Chinese nationals residing in Thailand.

I’m perfectly cool with that.

8 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Instead of having a ceremony, just get jabs into people's arms... 

A ceremony would be important for 'Thailand' to demonstrate appropriate loyalty to a "trusted" ally. 

In diplomacy nothing comes free.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Chinese government has already donated Chinese-made vaccines to some 80 countries, and exported purchase orders to around 50 countries. China has already given around 400 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines to its people, out of the 1.4 billion population

Well China did donate 164,904,078 Wuhan cases which over 3 million died. So thank you to Wuhan, China, most kind of you.