Thailand Signs Deal to Buy Moderna Vaccine

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The question to ask at the end of the day is why did they not sign contracts awhile ago, and why did they drag their feet while laying blame on the OAG for having a final review before it could be signed. They do look so proud and smug in the Photo OP don't they.  Why is no one pointing at the signed document....

The pretty girls on the right weren't available for the photo shoot then.

[J Town]

This patchwork approach will only make things worse.

[Tarteso]

11 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Strangest vaccin injection I ever seen. 

better than a pen stuck in the neck ? ????

Edited July 24, 2021 by Tarteso

[hioctane]

11 hours ago, internationalism said:

wait, they suppose to sign it the last Monday.

Gen Prayuth has spoken to them personally, at face to face meeting and shaking hands photo opportunity, on 19th April, just after coming back from his extended songran hooliday and did promise an immediate action, ie order.

That was over 3 months ago.

If signed and ordered on that day, this vax had a chance to be already in Thailand, even in initial, small quantities, just for medics

Expected delivery was still 4th quarter. They are many countries ahead of the line.

[Molly Malone]

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

They need these vaccines now - not in 4-5 months !

YES! But is anyone in Thailand surprised at YET another DAILY fake BS headline singing the Governments praises to the heavens!? 

 

Phuket Sandbox/Samui will SAVE THE ECONOMY! My personal favorite used to be the "yearly" FAKE photo of 50 Police under the Pattya Walking Street sign and the glorious declaration that their inspection found NO SIGN OF PROSTITUTION IN PATTYA.      

 

Now we have the, "ignore the 100 or so daily death toll", for the next six months while someone rows a boat full of vaccines from Europe to Thailand, it will only take him another 175 days to get here!.

[djayz]

11 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

signed again????

 

signed finally. 

[sbf]

1 hour ago, Dialemco said:

At least the Government is trying to obtain vaccines and must continue as this appears to be the only way out of the Pandemic. True better late than never but no one anticipated the virus would reappear so strongly. Australia and New Zealand have controlled the viras by isolating themselves but the viras now proving it recognises no borders they are both behind with their vaccination programmes but they may be in the same position as Thailand in the coming months.

I cannot speak for Australia, but I believe your post with regards to the situation in New Zealand is not correct. Currently there are no cases of Covid in the community in New Zealand and 12.8% of the population are fully vaccinated and the effort ramping up as planned. See the graphs in the link below. NZ Government although not perfect are pretty open and transparent and there is plenty of data to look through for those that want to.

 

The New Zealand program of vaccination is pretty fair, with 4 groups being identified, from highly vulnerable to lower risk, with factors such as occupation ( border worker, ASQ worker ), ethnicity, age, underlying health problems being used to make the group assessment.  Largely vaccination has been carried out with the highest risk groups first, moving to the least vulnerable. A quality vaccine Pfizer is being used for the program for the entire nation. Total deaths 26 or so almost all from the first wave. 

 

It would be very interesting to see the vaccination data for Thailand especially the socio-economic groupings and their vaccination rates. I doubt it is available. Suffice to say any person who is currently resident in New Zealand is included in the program when their group is vaccinated, if they wish to receive the vaccine. Unlike Thailand where apparently many foreigners and poor rural dwellers are not able to be vaccinated even though age and health mean they are vulnerable, whilst young Thais in certain geographical areas such as Pphuket can readily access vaccines, even if they are not highly efficacious ones. I note that the OP reports that Thais who wish to travel abroad are to get some of the Moderna vaccine.   

 

Interesting that both Thailand and New Zealand were lauded early on for their response to the Covid crisis. It would seem that New Zealand has largely kept up its good response, but sadly Thailand has not. 

 

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data#model

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7 minutes ago, sbf said:

I cannot speak for Australia, but I believe your post with regards to the situation in New Zealand is not correct. Currently there are no cases of Covid in the community in New Zealand and 12.8% of the population are fully vaccinated and the effort ramping up as planned. See the graphs in the link below. NZ Government although not perfect are pretty open and transparent and there is plenty of data to look through for those that want to.

 

The New Zealand program of vaccination is pretty fair, with 4 groups being identified, from highly vulnerable to lower risk, with factors such as occupation ( border worker, ASQ worker ), ethnicity, age, underlying health problems being used to make the group assessment.  Largely vaccination has been carried out with the highest risk groups first, moving to the least vulnerable. A quality vaccine Pfizer is being used for the program for the entire nation. Total deaths 26 or so almost all from the first wave. 

 

It would be very interesting to see the vaccination data for Thailand especially the socio-economic groupings and their vaccination rates. I doubt it is available. Suffice to say any person who is currently resident in New Zealand is included in the program when their group is vaccinated, if they wish to receive the vaccine. Unlike Thailand where apparently many foreigners and poor rural dwellers are not able to be vaccinated even though age and health mean they are vulnerable, whilst young Thais in certain geographical areas such as Pphuket can readily access vaccines, even if they are not highly efficacious ones. I note that the OP reports that Thais who wish to travel abroad are to get some of the Moderna vaccine.   

 

Interesting that both Thailand and New Zealand were lauded early on for their response to the Covid crisis. It would seem that New Zealand has largely kept up its good response, but sadly Thailand has not. 

 

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data#model

Yes, New Zealand has done a great job in keeping out Covid. But to be fair, it consists of 2 islands so it has a huge advantage. No porous borders to contend with. And it was slow to purchase vaccines.

[D M G]

Just a thought...

 

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[MadMac]

12 hours ago, mark131v said:

Ha Hi So's off on a spending trip to Dubai and so forth, glad they are targeting them to the most vulnerable....

So the rich and beautiful that travel the world need Pfizer, not readily available Sinovac. What a surprise, seems they don't trust their own cure from China. One wonders why ????

[dallen52]

12 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Strangest vaccin injection I ever seen. 

This whole fiasco has been a pain in the neck.

[DefaultName]

So, the contract is signed in Thailand, has anyone told Moderna?

[d2b2]

Having a press release every time Moderna is mentioned in a meeting is like having 30 bridal showers before the wedding. You seek praise, adulation and attention, but you haven’t done anything yet

[mtls2005]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Food and Drug Administration has signed a contract to purchase five million doses of Moderna vaccine with Zuellig Pharma.

 

I thought that it as the GPO which had to enter into a contract with Zuellig?

 

They did say they'd sign a contract on the 23rd so well done.

 

As the contract is with a supplier and not the manufacturer (Moderna), I assume the contract can be released to the public? (Yes, not gonna happen.)

 

So this is the 5 mm, originally purchased by Thais (and a few foreigners) via private hospitals.

 

Then the Thai Red Cross skimmed 1.1 mm doses, still no one has revealed who is paying for these 1.1 mm doses. (Yes, I know who.)

 

So that leaves 3.9 mm.

 

FWIW, there is leaked draft memo, never sent, that the RTA wanted some/all of those TRC doses.

 

The RTA has acknowledged that the memo is authentic, but that it was never sent, nor "authorized".

 

Caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Bad soldier.

 

Reported on The Standard, letter is available for review.

 

 

THE STANDARD 

BREAKING: Royal Thai Army admits Moderna's 'documentary request', but it's arbitrary prepare for disciplinary action
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Today (July 23) Maj. Gen. Thiraphong Patamasingh Na Ayudhya, Deputy Spokesman of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters. Clarify the case of social media that has published pictures of the book Military Correspondence Department Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters No. Korhor 0312.3/218 Subject: Request for support for Moderna vaccine for soldiers and their families that
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Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters has set up a committee to investigate the facts urgently The results of the investigation found that Director of Ceremonies Military Correspondence Department have made a letter to request real vaccine support an arbitrary act which the person who signs the letter Not authorized by the Commander in Chief therefore it is not considered a valid book. and not sent to the Thai Red Cross Society which has been canceled
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The Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters has considered disciplinary action against such personnel.
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Read more More at https://thestandard.co/

 

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, MadMac said:

So the rich and beautiful that travel the world need Pfizer, not readily available Sinovac. What a surprise, seems they don't trust their own cure from China. One wonders why ????

The fact is that whatever their level of trust in, most nations don't accept that Coronavac is proven to meet their vaccination standards. So without Moderna, they have a lot less options for international travel.

[rwill]

It's good they finally finished this.  The thing is they should have ordered at least 50 million doses, not 5 million.  They could have easily sold them.

 

In the meantime the US just bought another 200 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

[4MyEgo]

13 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

How many more times are they going to announce this Moderna deal? These days it’s just embarrassing to hear about it again. We get it. 5 mil doses, December. Or in other words, too little, too late.

Actually I heard it was October, with the latest being that the government is giving 1 million doses to the Red Cross to give to provincial heads to distribute to the poor, however the red cross selling it to them at 200 baht profit per dose, fricking unbelievable this country, also wife says a letter from a military head to the red cross was leaked asking the red cross to give these shots to a list of Hi So families if you can believe it ?

[Millcx]

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

The question to ask at the end of the day is why did they not sign contracts awhile ago, and why did they drag their feet while laying blame on the OAG for having a final review before it could be signed. They do look so proud and smug in the Photo OP don't they.  Why is no one pointing at the signed document....

9 months behind the rest of world

[Nanaplaza666]

2 hours ago, thailand49 said:

I think there are a number of reason, the delay was so they could push for the AZ as the main vaccine to be issue but the problem  they couldn't meet production isn't that a big surprise?

 

Then the delay was most likely to make sure those at the top got enough of a cut from the deal?  ???? OAG just happen to be the scrape goat of the day.  Then you got an article they couldn't sign the deal because the government didn't have the funds available to sign thus the reason they ask the private hospital to take money up front. 

 

The photo op is shameful how does one screw things up then act if it never happened?????

They didn't have the money because they put it all in their deep pockets since the beginning of the outbreak when they said(and thought) everything was under controle . Now when it's time to pay up they say they don't have the money . But they have the money to keep on talking about subs and spaceships . I wonder if there is ever someome going to look into this moneygrabbing sceam . I think they thought that Grab delivery was doing so well they wanted Grab as well , only they Grabbed without giving any service .

[elgenon]

The question: Do they have a plan for distributing the doses if they get them? Says nothing about that.

[KamnanT]

5 million doses of X.  2 million doses of Y.   200,000 doses of Z.  The country needs 140 MILLION doses to cover its entire population, and that's before booster shots, which it is becoming increasingly evident many people will need some time in the next 12 months.  When will they start signing contracts for 30 or 40 million doses at a time?

[law ling]

Sooner or later the Czar must accept that the population here needs to be vaccinated - and the sooner the better if even more agony is to be avoided - so (as others have noted) why just 5 mill?

 

Yes, wait times are already long enough (as others are already in the queue), so why not order 50 or 150 million?

[Derek B]

By now there must be newer vaccines in the global works unless the "rich countries" have stopped bank rolling the research & development costs.

[fondue zoo]

One announcement after another, which vaccine donation was it that had a caveat attached, x amount of doses are for foreigners?

[sawadee1947]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thais in need of inoculation before travelling overseas.

It's a joke is isn't it? 

So all those kids studying overseas will get the vaccine? 

And all those pretending to travel will get vaccinated? ????

[Dont confuse me]

They have done some 'deals' I've read of at least 14 'deals' either in the pipeline or 'done' 

And I don't think I've seen a 'deal' with a figure of more than 10 million vaccines, one would think that if you are doing a 'deal' then you'd negotiate for a large amount to gain bigger discounts etc.

The only 'deal' these clowns have done is to 'deal' the public a load of BS.

 

[Rookiescot]

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

Yes, New Zealand has done a great job in keeping out Covid. But to be fair, it consists of 2 islands so it has a huge advantage. No porous borders to contend with. And it was slow to purchase vaccines.

Not a dissimilar position to which the UK found itself at the start of the outbreak then.

[Rookiescot]

32 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

It's a joke is isn't it? 

So all those kids studying overseas will get the vaccine? 

And all those pretending to travel will get vaccinated? ????

Ask yourself which Thais travel abroad a lot.

[trainman34014]

Simple really; wait for the crowds to rush to Hospitals with money in hand to book Vaccinations, Hospitals pass money to Government Gangsters who then order the Vaccine at zero cost to themselves !

[placnx]

5 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

No, its the Sinovac that doesn't work.

 

mRNA vaccines are very effective against the Delta variant.

 

Moderna will only be available to the private hospitals and smart people who paid in advance.

While Pfizer is a lot better than Sinovac, in Israel the latest news is that Pfizer is only 39% effective in preventing infection from Delta:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1626980447-vaccine-39-effective-at-halting-virus-transmission-91-against-serious-illness-israel-s-health-ministry-says

So the Pfizer booster and an updated vaccine would help.