Thailand to get 30 million Pfizer doses: Anutin

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thailand's Minister of Public Health  and Deputy Prime Minister said at the MoPH that Thailand has ordered an extra ten million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. 

 

This will be available in the fourth quarter (October to December) and brings to a total of 30 million doses of that vaccine coming to Thailand.

 

In addition the US has donated an extra one million doses of Pfizer on top of the 1.5 million already given, reported Thai Rath. 

 

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[Scrotobike]

Goodness me will the clown never shut up about ordering vaccines. Lets focus on delivered numbers of effective vaccines and on why this is soooo small (covax, reliant on one local supplier, buying from the CCP)

[Neilly]

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's Minister of Public Health  and Deputy Prime Minister said at the MoPH that Thailand has ordered an extra ten million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. 

He's got a mask on so I can't tell if his lips were moving!  ????...then again, ordering, paying for and receiving are another matter ????

[2long]

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[Cake Monster]

Is there no end to the Tosh this man is capable of talking.

[Karma80]

This guy is awesome. So much failure and hot air. It's impressive.

[NANGFA69]

He didn't say what YEAR !!!

[ThailandRyan]

Deliver what you have on hand onto the arms of those needing vaccines and stop with all of the pomp and circumstance fake news.  Today I ordered 8 cases of Singha Zero Lemon Soda, when it will be delivered is another thing.  Do I have it, NO. So Anutin needs to shut his piehole until the vaccine has landed and ready to be administered. Talk is cheap here...

[Virt]

 I will try and stay positive and I hope they manage to get their Pfizer doses by the scheduled time. 

 

It's positive they are ordering such amounts of Pfizer or Moderna so let's applaud that and hope for the Thais they get their shots, even though Oct - Dec seems a bit far away in the current situation.

[internationalism]

who stole my 40mln from the last statement a few weeks ago? The original plan was for 50mln of additional doses, over those 20mln already contracted.

and what happen with a promise to get more moderna?

situation has worsened and plans for orders should be increased, not decreased.

Where is J&J, which is approved already, but not ordered?

Or sputnik, mentioned a few times but never acted on?

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/50-million-more-doses-of-pfizer-vaccine-more-moderna-expected-to-be-purchased/

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by internationalism

[mtls2005]

For the regime, saying that they are ordering vaccines is easy.

 

For foreigners, registering (for the Nth time) for a vaccine is easy. OK, easier than it was in the Mor Prom days of olde.

 

Administering a vaccine? Not so easy.

 

I assume if the minister had real news, like deliveries, he'd share that vigorously. That he can only talk about "what ifs" is revealing.

 

All that said, they're over half a million vaccines administered in each of the last three days. They blew it out yesterday, with 570,865.

 

Not sure supplies will support this level for any sustained period.

 

 

[MrJ2U]

30 million doses

is enough for 15 Millon people.

 

Why not go all in and get 100 million Pfizer and 100 million Moderna for the public.

 

Use Astra Zeneca on the army to keep them complacent.

 

After this you can order 100 million more for booster shots.  Any extra give to your neighbors before they expire.

 

10 million here and 20 million there doesn't cut it.

 

Anutim should have been doing this last year, F idiot.

Edited August 13, 2021 by MrJ2U
Wrong numbers

[RotBenz8888]

A mask for Anutin. 

[ezzra]

We will get, we have ordered, we will buy, it will arrive, all talks for far and very little to show for, Mr. Anutin, Less talk, more vaccinations...

[Mr Meeseeks]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

[KeeTua]

16 minutes ago, NANGFA69 said:

He didn't say what YEAR !!!

Headline from the Thai Rath linked article:
Anutin reveals that Thailand has ordered an additional 10 million doses of Pfizer for delivery in the fourth quarter of this year.

[BestB]

have 2.5 million people been vaccinated yet with donated vaccine? If not , why not ?

AZ makes 3 million for Thailand , are there 3 million being vaccinated every month?

 

all I hear is over 60 or over 70, well how many over 60 and over 70 are there that they keep insisting for past 2-3 months over 60 or over 70 first 

Edited August 13, 2021 by BestB

[KeeTua]

9 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

Why not go all in and get 100 million Pfizer and 100 million Moderna for the public.

 

Use Astra Zeneca on the army to keep them complacent.

 

After this you can order 200 million more for booster shots.

400 million doses + the Astra Zeneca doses for a population of 70 million?

[MrJ2U]

3 minutes ago, KeeTua said:

400 million doses + the Astra Zeneca doses for a population of 70 million?

Thanks, I edited that.

Still a little extra for there poorer neighbors.

[jaltsc]

"Thailand has ordered an extra ten million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. 

This will be available in the fourth quarter..."

 

As with everything else in Thailand, the only shreds of accuracy are statements about what happened in the past. Not the present or future. And, even then, when the government is involved, the highest amount of accuracy might reach 20%.

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by jaltsc

[John Drake]

Maybe they should have got the Moderna instead?

 

"The study found the Pfizer vaccine was only 42% effective against infection in July, when the Delta variant was dominant. "If that's not a wakeup call, I don't know what is," a senior Biden official told Axios."   https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-moderna-delta-biden-e9be4bb0-3d10-4f56-8054-5410be357070.html

[John Drake]

Why no Moderna? Is this the answer???

 

"In January, US vaccine-maker Moderna proposed to build a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) industrial zone, created to lure high-end foreign manufacturers, but Anutin’s office did not deign the shot-making proposal worthy of a written reply, according to the same government sources."   https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/covid-blame-game-spreads-like-a-virus-in-thailand/

Edited August 13, 2021 by John Drake

[trainman34014]

Didn't say what year they would arrive but i'm guessing end of next or start of 2023 !

[Marvin Hagler]

51 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

For the regime, saying that they are ordering vaccines is easy.

 

For foreigners, registering (for the Nth time) for a vaccine is easy. OK, easier than it was in the Mor Prom days of olde.

 

Administering a vaccine? Not so easy.

 

I assume if the minister had real news, like deliveries, he'd share that vigorously. That he can only talk about "what ifs" is revealing.

 

All that said, they're over half a million vaccines administered in each of the last three days. They blew it out yesterday, with 570,865.

 

Not sure supplies will support this level for any sustained period.

 

 

Those numbers in my opinion are a lie.

[Callmeishmael]

30 million?  I didn't know that Thailand had that many soldiers and Members of Parliament.

[spidermike007]

This sabateur creep has even less credibility that his boss. Nobody listens to anything he says anymore. He is a laughing stock of the nation. 

 

One wonders if he has any perception, consciousness or awareness of his lack of relevancy and the degree to which people do not take him seriously?

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by spidermike007

[RotBenz8888]

53 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Why no Moderna? Is this the answer???

 

"In January, US vaccine-maker Moderna proposed to build a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) industrial zone, created to lure high-end foreign manufacturers, but Anutin’s office did not deign the shot-making proposal worthy of a written reply, according to the same government sources."   https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/covid-blame-game-spreads-like-a-virus-in-thailand/

Thanks for the link to the article, a must-read. 

 

However, having read it, I want to ????

Edited August 13, 2021 by RotBenz8888

[KeeTua]

42 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Why no Moderna? Is this the answer???

 

"In January, US vaccine-maker Moderna proposed to build a Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) industrial zone, created to lure high-end foreign manufacturers, but Anutin’s office did not deign the shot-making proposal worthy of a written reply, according to the same government sources."   https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/covid-blame-game-spreads-like-a-virus-in-thailand/

Thanks for the link a worthy but painful read.

 

"Before that, in September, the minister committed to buying just three million doses per month from AstraZeneca...."

 

"Instead, Anutin’s ministry placed a belated vaccine order with China’s Sinovac, paying on the high end of the private vaccine maker’s sales price range, according to the same sources. It has been lost on few local observers that Sinovac is 15% owned by the Charoen Pokphand Group, among Thailand’s richest and most politically influential “five family” business groups."

https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/covid-blame-game-spreads-like-a-virus-in-thailand/

[MrJ2U]

1 hour ago, Cake Monster said:

Is there no end to the Tosh this man is capable of talking.

No.

[HaoleBoy]

More Pfizer sounds great!

First, tell us with total transparency where the 1.5 million donated Pfizer is and where it is going.  Province by province to start.  Earlier it was stated for the 13 surrounding BKK provinces, but nothing on Bangkok ... why?

 

The donated Pfizer is rolling out so sloooowly at this point to frontline workers.  Some hospitals state they must have a lottery to see who will get it.  But Gov says more is coming ...  Why not come up with a distribution plan, not a committee, and share it with the province govenors and hospitals?