Thailand’s Attorney General Finishes Examination of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Agreement

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By Subhabhong Rarueysong

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has finished reviewing the Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s (GOP) draft supply agreement for the purchase of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

 

OAG deputy spokesman Prayuth Phetkhun said the office returned the document to the GOP for further action on Monday morning.

 

He said the OAG has also examined a number of draft contracts to buy COVID-19 vaccines. The office took one day to examine the draft for the purchase of Sinovac vaccine and five days on a similar document for AstraZeneca vaccine.

 

As for the draft contract to buy the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the OAG received it from the Department of Disease Control on June 29. After finishing the review, it was also returned to the department on Monday morning.

 

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[mtls2005]

Waiting for the GPO to acknowledge receipt, and place an order with Zuellig.

 

 

However, it will not be that simple.

 

The money must change hands next, from hospitals to GPO to ??? then to Zuellig

 

Can't wait to see what or who ??? is? Some government agency we've never heard from? Or will it be the MoF?

 

Welcome to Moderna Bingo.

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

Someone got a bit of a wiggle on with "things" then!

[Surelynot]

I hope Moderna have been involved at every stage????

 

Maybe place the order some time next week or the week after and Moderna will say sorry.....none left!

[mtls2005]

THG headman mentioning November. Believe he's optimistic or high.

 

 

[club]

Your still to late to order Moderna for 2021. Didn't  you get the memo last week? Memo from Moderna

[jojothai]

"returned the document to the GOP for further action"
draft contract to buy the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, "returned to the department".
What a joke. How are these ever going to get delivered as promised when they cannot even get approved?

[spidermike007]

What can one even say? Dragging their feet. These clowns should not have been permitted to sleep or eat until the review was completed. They are pretending that things are normal out here, and millions are not out of work. 

 

Toxic fools. All of them. 

[tomazbodner]

You know GPO is working on a local vaccine that is just in human trial... There is a bit of ... <ahem> conflict of interest here.

[Enzian]

The gf just sent 3,300 baht to a hospital in Khon Kaen for the opportunity to, at some point in the future, be granted a queue number and a date certain (?) for Moderna vaccination.  

As I understand it, if she can get AZ from the government, free or not, before the Khon Kaen hospital can perform, she can assign or sell her queue place to someone, like a relative or friend. If the hospital cannot perform by next March, she can qualify for a refund. She might also, I think, use a further out appointment as a third shot/booster. 

This is largely because that is her home of origin, and I may be gone for the next 4 or 5 months if my PCR test next week comes back as hoped. To me it's just $100 thrown to fate as a gamble, I'm ok if it's lost, we just keep trying. I had a first dose of AZ 2 weeks ago in Bangkok, then decided on another gamble which hardly a gamble, that California might be a better place to chill. It goes without saying that it is to my benefit that she gets shots, however it happens.

 

[jacko45k]

So it is at the bottom of the in-tray on the next desk now is it?

[mtls2005]

1 hour ago, club said:

Your still to late to order Moderna for 2021. Didn't  you get the memo last week? Memo from Moderna

 

Meh, that felt like a warning to entice a Q2 booking.

[trainman34014]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

THG headman mentioning November. Believe he's optimistic or high.

 

 

He never said what year !

[club]

12 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Meh, that felt like a warning to entice a Q2 booking.

Q2of 2022 for Moderna sound pretty close

[4MyEgo]

Hang on a second, no committee ?

[metisdead]

A troll post using a trolling image has been removed.

[newnative]

Jesus wept.  This order for Moderna is STILL mired in bureaucracy?????????????????????

[ukrules]

I wonder if they accepted the contract or made a list of demanded changes?

 

These guys are used to pulling the strings, that is not the case any more.

[Presnock]

If I am not mistaken, isn't the Moderna vaccine going to be tallied up during all of July, then the order to be placed for delivery  during the 4th quarter?  Or, is this a separate order "guessing" how many want that vaccine (as shown by the traffic in CM it is too many) and therefore, they are advising the private hospitals that each will receive 60 doses or maybe 100 doses and therefore as soon as they open for registration, within 5-10 minutes they are "fully" booked as they claim.  It would really be nice if the government would actually take control of this project, organize it properly and then advise everyone that is eligible for said project.  That would stop the onslaught getting into the queue at 4 AM and never making it to the counter to register.  Hopefully someone will tackle this project and get it organized once and for all!

 

[norbra]

June 22 2021

European Commission purchases additional 150 million doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine for delivery 2022

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has finished reviewing the Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s (GOP) draft supply agreement for the purchase of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

Wake me up when it actually here.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Hang on a second, no committee ?

Yet.. 

[Mick60]

Living in Lopburi. Registered for moderna a few weeks back. Paid up front for me and my wife. 2000 baht each for 2 jabs (3800 baht each if I waited until jab day). No line. No problem. Been told for a while now that it's expected sometime around October. Can only hope this review junk can finish up quickly. Not holding my breath. 

[club]

1 minute ago, Mick60 said:

Living in Lopburi. Registered for moderna a few weeks back. Paid up front for me and my wife. 2000 baht each for 2 jabs (3800 baht each if I waited until jab day). No line. No problem. Been told for a while now that it's expected sometime around October. Can only hope this review junk can finish up quickly. Not holding my breath. 

 

1 minute ago, Mick60 said:

Living in Lopburi. Registered for moderna a few weeks back. Paid up front for me and my wife. 2000 baht each for 2 jabs (3800 baht each if I waited until jab day). No line. No problem. Been told for a while now that it's expected sometime around October. Can only hope this review junk can finish up quickly. Not holding my breath. 

Guess you haven't heard the news . Thailand never actually ordered Moderna after talking about doing it for 3 months. According to Moderna all contracts signed now will be for delivery in 2022. Sorry for the bad news . I wanted it too  

[Karma80]

3 hours ago, Enzian said:

The gf just sent 3,300 baht to a hospital in Khon Kaen for the opportunity to, at some point in the future, be granted a queue number and a date certain (?) for Moderna vaccination.  

To me it's just $100 thrown to fate as a gamble, I'm ok if it's lost, we just keep trying. I had a first dose of AZ 2 weeks ago in Bangkok, then decided on another gamble which hardly a gamble, that California might be a better place to chill. It goes without saying that it is to my benefit that she gets shots, however it happens.

 

 

Pretty much my view. My partner and I have Sinovac, but may as well gamble $100 on a Moderna maybe. Who really knows what situation Thailand is going to be in by year end and the vaccine politics. Sure, there may be Thai vaccines by then, but who will accept those globally?

[mtls2005]

1 hour ago, newnative said:

This order for Moderna is STILL mired in bureaucracy?????????????????????

 

Meanwhile the cabinet approved the purchase of 20 MM Pfizer doses today. Government spokesman mentioned these would arrive from October.

 

Interesting.

 

 

 

[club]

15 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Meanwhile the cabinet approved the purchase of 20 MM Pfizer doses today. Government spokesman mentioned these would arrive from October.

 

Interesting.

 

 

 

Not a chance. They are lying again 

[Andycoops]

I think they mean they agreed on the divy up and Moderna have already said if the order is placed now they can't fulfill until 2022, incompetent Muppets strike again.

[cyril sneer]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The office took one day to examine the draft for the purchase of Sinovac vaccine and five days on a similar document for AstraZeneca vaccine.

probably wasn't even a full day

[mrfill]

28 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Meanwhile the cabinet approved the purchase of 20 MM Pfizer doses today. Government spokesman mentioned these would arrive from October.

 

Interesting.

 

 

 

 

'approved the purchase' = Not yet ordered and certainly not paid for. But they're thinking about it.