High infection areas to get Sinopharm jabs as alternative vaccine

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By Tanakorn Sangiam

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - People in areas at high risk of COVID-19 transmission will be able to sign up for Sinopharm jabs provided by the Chulabhorn Royal Academy next week in limited quantity, as an alternative to the government-provided jabs, with other organizations signed up for the jabs earlier, now getting their allotment.

 

Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) is expected to start accepting sign-ons for COVID-19 vaccinations using CRA-provided Sinopharm jabs next week, starting with people in the dark-red areas of high transmission risk.

 

The CRA Secretary General Dr Nithi Mahanonda said today that more Sinopharm doses are arriving on 18th and 25th July and will be allocated to organizations that have already signed up, while registrations by members of the general public who wish to have Sinopharm jabs is expected to begin towards the end of next week.

 

Organizations receiving an allocation from these new deliveries of the vaccine will be contacted via email by Friday. Registered organizations who have not been contacted by that time are also asked to contact the CRA themselves.

 

The CRA has also devised its allotment plan to cover signed up provincial administrative organizations, as well as educational institutions, and healthcare facilities, as well as monks and priests, who will be receiving the jabs purchased from a mandatory 10% donation collected from registered firms.

 

Dr Nithi said Sinopharm jabs for the general public registered as individuals will be available in rounds, with the registration closed after vaccine supplies for each round are all booked. The registration will open again when more vaccine supplies become available.

 

The CRA will be holding a meeting with participating hospitals serving as vaccination providers to ensure good operations, while the CRA secretary general said more good news is expected, as the vaccine manufacturer and logistics provider might be able to discuss a new price.

 

Sinopharm jabs are being provided and managed by the CRA, as an alternative choice to either Sinovac or AstraZeneca doses provided by the government in its national inoculation campaign. A similar offering of Moderna vaccine as another option is expected to be made available in Q4 this year by private hospitals across the country.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-07-09

 

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[Geoffggi]

Why not just get the real deal and stop all this nonsense .............. 

[simon43]

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...as well as monks and priests, who will be receiving the jabs purchased from a mandatory 10% donation collected from registered firms.

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mandatory donation ???? what an oxymoron!

[phills2k1]

"High infection areas to receive placebo"

 

There, I fixed it for you

[internationalism]

figures are missing from this article.

As I remember it's now only 1mln, that is for over 3mln registered through many thousands organisations.

Looks like I will have to register with them again, after the registration on 20th April for AZ was swiftly cancelled, because the ministry has cut them completely from the list.

I do hope for this time. At the same time, I don't want more spam on email and sms from leaked or hacked data. 

Price below 1k per dose is very reasonable, in comparison to the other served at private hospitals at very late date.

Edited July 8, 2021 by internationalism

[clivebaxter]

People registered with the academy weeks ago only to have them deleted when they decided they would only accept new ones from organizations and companies. Does this mean individuals can register again, and why would they after the first time?

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

People in areas at high risk of COVID-19 transmission will be able to sign up for Sinopharm jabs provided by the Chulabhorn Royal Academy next week in limited quantity,

So that means anywhere in Thailand.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Why not just get the real deal and stop all this nonsense .............. 

The real deal costs money and Prayut doesn't like the sound of that.

[tingtong]

Actual, recent info and concern about Sinopharm and AZ:

Testing the fully vaccinated elderly, 

The result shown that potentially as many as 30% with Sinopharm jab and 20% with AZ has not developed any immunity. ( their immune system doesn't produce antibodies, ie they have actually zero protection against covid, apart a false sense of being safe).

Mixing vaccines offered as one potential solution, like Germany approved aftet after first shot of AZ the second can be Pfeizer or Moderna.

 

Not to mention that getting the first shot of vaccine if far from full protection in itself, and even that limited protection takes about 2 weeks...thus it doesn't really work as " emergency measure", as good as it reads in the news.

 

[Changbeer4me]

Maybe ask Yab Ba ยาบ้า manufacturers to make vaccines they have got the networks for delivery already set up. ????????????

[Mr Meeseeks]

Shouldn't have sent all of those vaccines to Phuket and Samui huh?

 

Dimlos.

[chalawaan]

I see Chinese vaccines are like Chinese food.

 

In about an hour or two, you need another one.

 

It's pure marketing genius!

 

 

 

 

[MrJ2U]

13 hours ago, englishoak said:

Jab effectiveness takes around 2 weeks,by which time a hotspot.............wont be.

 

Better off just contracting it, and will then have natural immunity odds of survival are super high over 99% for the vast majority.

Tell that to India.  

 

This Delta virus is horrendously bad.

 

Ive heard Sinopharm sucks but not as much as the useless Sinovac.