June vaccination target exceeded: Health Minister

[webfact]

 

By Tarin Angskul

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Minister of Public Health has revealed Thailand’s vaccination campaign exceeded its 6 million jabs target in June, with the supply of 10-12 million doses expected this month.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul, today inspected a mass vaccination center located at Thammasat University’s Rangsit campus, serving people in Pathum Thani and nearby provinces.

 

Run by Thammasat University Hospital, the vaccination center is currently able to vaccinate 2,000 people daily. This capacity can be increased to 3,000 jabs daily with a greater supply of vaccine.

The Minister of Public Health said Thailand’s inoculation campaign had exceeded its 6 million jab target for June, with 8 million doses given.

 

He said the campaign is still on track with the supply of 10-12 million doses planned for July, with 1 million doses from Sinovac delivered yesterday.

 

The Ministry of Labour is also proceeding with its vaccination drive for insured workers under the Social Security scheme. The Minister of Labour Suchat Chomklin today inspected a vaccination center located at Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation‘s office in Bangkok, which serves Social Security insured persons with appointments.

 

So far, the Social Security’s vaccination drive has given COVID-19 jabs to some 520,000 workers, including around 20,000 migrant workers.

 

The Social Security Office is now considering the distribution of allocated doses to industrial areas such as Rayong, Chonburi, Ayutthata, and Nakhon Pathom, with the distribution expected in August.

 

On compensation for construction workers at locked-down camps, the Minister of Labour said the first round of payments should be processed on Monday 5th July, along with the rollout of new aid measures for affected restaurants and construction workers.

 

Mr Suchat said the government’s 120-day goal for the country’s reopening has proven to be a positive move for employment, as the prospect of the country reopening has already boosted employment demand.

 

He said the Phuket Tourism Sandbox campaign, officially started yesterday, created 4,000 jobs in the area in the month prior to the official reopening, while the success of the campaign could endlessly lead to further positive developments.

 

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[gk10012001]

so what?  The Sinovac seems to be about the worst vaccine.  Even the Thais do no seem to want to run and get it.  and 2000 a day is only 60000 a month.  Ten months would only be 600,000.  A fraction of what is needed to be of much use.  And this is just for the local Bangkok area I think.  So they need some bigger logistics to reach the rest of the country

[RichardColeman]

 

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Ministry of Labour is also proceeding with its vaccination drive for insured workers under the Social Security scheme.

 

Great, so if your not insured you just spread disease ? 

[sirineou]

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June vaccination target exceeded: Health Minister

Is that code for "I got my vaccine"?

[colinneil]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said the campaign is still on track with the supply of 10-12 million doses planned for July, with 1 million doses from Sinovac delivered yesterday.

More nonsense from Anutin, what about all teachers will be given the vaccine before schools go back on 14th of june?

Teachers here are still waiting, so far ... Nothing.

[mtls2005]

I thought that the target was 6 MM FULLY vaccinated?

 

They ended June with very close to 3 MM FULLY vaccinated.

 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the campaign is still on track with the supply of 10-12 million doses planned for July, with 1 million doses from Sinovac delivered yesterday.

 

With MAXIMUM effort 10 MM doses in July is possible, but they need supplies - doubt they'll get much more than 2 MM from AZ/SBS (AZ can supply from elsewhere), and the 1 MM donation from Japan. Another 1 MM Sinipharm, and 2 MM Sinovac scheduled. That's a significant shortfall.

 

Time to rattle the tin cup and beg for more vaccines. And ring up the Chinese.

 

 

[impulse]

Sadly, they may be right on target and it will still take a year to get enough vaccinated to restart huge sections of the economy.

 

I don't remember being overly impressed by any of the widely varying vaccine schedules published in the past few months.

[DrJack54]

The most horrible thought other than Thailand's covid situation is that if Prayut was to go, does that mean we have Anutin as the new Czar? 

Talk about out of the fat and into the fire.

BTW Today 6230 new case. 41 deaths

Edited July 3, 2021 by DrJack54

[ryane66]

Sinovac does not stop the Delta varriant. Now Germany is using Pifzer as a 2nd dose because initial studies are showing AztraZenica is also not working against the Delta varriant.

[TheFishman1]

Pathetic TIT

[FritsSikkink]

3 hours ago, gk10012001 said:

so what?  The Sinovac seems to be about the worst vaccine.  Even the Thais do no seem to want to run and get it.  and 2000 a day is only 60000 a month.  Ten months would only be 600,000.  A fraction of what is needed to be of much use.  And this is just for the local Bangkok area I think.  So they need some bigger logistics to reach the rest of the country

That is one center, there are more. Not saying they are doing good as for foreigners it is a cluster F..

[poskat]

if the current situation is considered by the government as everything is going as planned, they need a new plan

[Khun Yogi]

Those figures are out the door now as Astra Senca have just reduced their supply from 10 m doses to 5 m. What a bunch of lying crooks. !!!!

[herfiehandbag]

Ah, "Anutin says..."

 

Seen that on TV, I believe they call it interference!

[BangkokReady]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Great, so if your not insured you just spread disease ? 

 

It's crazy.  In the UK they're even saying to illegal immigrants "just come and get a vaccine, we won't ask you any questions", because they want to actually control the virus.

[Advocatus Diaboli]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

More nonsense from Anutin, what about all teachers will be given the vaccine before schools go back on 14th of june?

Teachers here are still waiting, so far ... Nothing.

‘Which proves the government was not expecting schools to return on the 14th June. Maybe 14th June next year when ALL teachers vaccinated then.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, ryane66 said:

Sinovac does not stop the Delta varriant. Now Germany is using Pifzer as a 2nd dose because initial studies are showing AztraZenica is also not working against the Delta varriant.

So basically Thailand is up the brown creek without a paddle.

[newnative]

Good luck jabbing 10 to 12 million in July when your July supply of AZ has gone from 10 million to 5 million--if  it's even that.  And, remember, all those that got their first jabs in June will need their  second jabs down the road so you need to be setting aside doses for that.  

[wensiensheng]

Unfortunately, he is just making stuff up. There isn’t any point rebutting what he says because it has no basis in fact.

[wensiensheng]

3 hours ago, impulse said:

Sadly, they may be right on target and it will still take a year to get enough vaccinated to restart huge sections of the economy.

 

I don't remember being overly impressed by any of the widely varying vaccine schedules published in the past few months.

They are not on target at all.

 

since 7th June they have only met target on one day. The rest have fallen short, some by a considerable margin. On 7th June they needed to vaccinate 488k people per day. As at yesterday it had risen to 520k people per day.

 

a graphic on the vaccination program is posted on here nearly everyday.

[rak sa_ngop]

"greater supply of vaccine.

The Minister of Public Health said Thailand’s inoculation campaign had exceeded its 6 million jab target for June, with 8 million doses given."

 

Going by govt figures by 1st June 3,753,718 total vaccination shots administered

 

By 30th June the total was 9,927,698 shots.

 

So total for month (29 days) was 6,173,980 shots.

 

So yes the target of 6m was exceeded but to round this number up to 8m is best described as fantasy

[Exploring Thailand]

10 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

a graphic on the vaccination program is posted on here nearly everyday.

 

It's this one. The blue line is the target, the red bars, the vaccinations. It looks like the average for the month was about 50% of the target.

 

Edited July 3, 2021 by Exploring Thailand

[Deli]

Very low targets are easy to reach. The 6 million should be the target for ONE WEEK, not for a month.

[mtls2005]

15 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

On 7th June they needed to vaccinate 488k people per day. As at yesterday it had risen to 520k people per day.

 

Just for clarity, that is the number of doses required every day from today until ???, to meet some target, which I'm not sure I still understand?

 

I think it's 50 MM people fully vaccinated by some date, maybe 1 Oct? Maybe 1 Jan 2022?

 

That may be on the chart, with the blue target line rising.

 

"Year-end".

 

 

299,485 in the previous reporting day.

 

 

 

Edited July 3, 2021 by mtls2005

[Nanaplaza666]

He said the Phuket Tourism Sandbox campaign, officially started yesterday, created 4,000 jobs in the area in the month prior to the official reopening, while the success of the campaign could endlessly lead to further positive developments.

 

This is a real joke as is all of it . They just want to show of saying it created 4.000 jobs, while millions are lost and those 4.000 are just being put to work to clean up that toilet before Prayut and Anutin came to have a !@#$ on it two days ago (without a mask and distancing ofcourse) and how many of these 4.000 jobs will be still there after almost no tourist showed up ??? Pathetic really no other word for this circus . 

[wensiensheng]

11 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Just for clarity, that is the number of doses required every day from today until ???, to meet some target, which I'm not sure I still understand?

 

I think it's 50 MM people fully vaccinated by some date, maybe 1 Oct? Maybe 1 Jan 2022?

 

That may be on the chart, with the blue target line rising.

 

"Year-end".

 

 

299,485 in the previous reporting day.

 

 

 

The stated government target is 100 million doses by year end. That is 50 million people, or roughly 70% of the population.
 

This ignores the subsequent statements from the PM about opening in 120 days if 70% of the population is vaccinated. That seems more aspirational than achievable and the government doesn’t seem to be issuing any updates on progress against that target.

[kwonitoy]

It doesn't matter what the target is, success will be declared due to the wisdom and kindness of whoever can squeeze into a picture frame, and then it's time for lunch.

[Thomas J]

[Exploring Thailand]

A recent NNT post is talking of 70%  having had their first shot by the beginning of October. The Khasod graphic is talking about 70% having had 2 shots by the end of the year.

 

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PM Prayut said that Thailand has now negotiated with six suppliers of vaccines, namely Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm. By the end of year, he said Thailand would have amassed 105.5 million doses, which is sufficient to inoculate all the Thai population. At this juncture, the government plans to administer an average of 10 million jabs a month from July so that by early October almost 50 million people, or 70 per cent of Thai population will have had their first shot.

 

[impulse]

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

4 hours ago, impulse said:

Sadly, they may be right on target and it will still take a year to get enough vaccinated to restart huge sections of the economy.

 

I don't remember being overly impressed by any of the widely varying vaccine schedules published in the past few months.

They are not on target at all.

 

since 7th June they have only met target on one day. The rest have fallen short, some by a considerable margin. On 7th June they needed to vaccinate 488k people per day. As at yesterday it had risen to 520k people per day.

 

a graphic on the vaccination program is posted on here nearly everyday.

 

Depends on whether you're talking about the MOPH target, the CCSA target, the TAT target or some other creamy dream target. 

 

Months ago, the MOPH published targets based on actual expected vaccine deliveries.  That included 6 million jabs in June.  They met that target.  The problem was, based on vaccine delivery schedules the MOPH published (the fools), it was obvious that there's no way they'd meet a year end, much less an October 1 goal of 100 million.  Which I categorize as the CCSA and the creamy dream target, respectively.  Empty political promises.  Not unlike the empty promises made by politicians around the world.

 

But it's like the weather.  Wait a day and there will be a whole new set of promises we can all ridicule.  The key is to look at vaccine deliveries, not some pie in the sky goal, based on wishful thinking.