Vaccine queues: Large crowd of Pfizer hopefuls gather from 5 am outside Lotus in Samut Prakan

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that there were large crowds of people gathering at Lotus's Sailuat branch in Samut Prakan on Sunday after a hospital announced about Pfizer vaccines.

 

Samut Prakan Hospital (Pak Nam) had posted on Facebook that the vaccine would be available for people in four groups who were resident in the province south east of Bangkok.

 

Vaccinations were available for 12-18 year olds with seven underlying health conditions, the over 60s, pregnant women who had carried for 12 weeks and over and men weighing 100 kilos and women weighing 80 kilos.

 

They had been told to get queue numbers at Lotus from 7 am then jabbed at the hospital from 8 am.

 

The crowds turned up at 5 am and FM91 Traffic Pro tweeted on Twitter that the area should be avoided as there was bad traffic in both directions in front of the shopping center's car park. 

 

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[Scrotobike]

I get two things from this

 

1. Don't want CCP vaccines

2. Creating a Covid factory

[Gottfrid]

It´s funny. As one of the few countries in the world, making their citizens run like animals, stand in hordes for get a chance for vaccine. Developed countries show respect by giving their citizens appointments or by having enough vaccines for everyone. Apparently Thailand is proud over showing the rest of the world how they behave.

Moreover, people should know by now, that if they happen to get a Pfizer as a first shot, they will probably be given a Sinovac as a second. Totally demolish the real purpose of giving a quality vaccine. Maybe that is included in Amazing Thailand these days.

[malibukid]

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

It´s funny. As one of the few countries in the world, making their citizens run like animals, stand in hordes for get a chance for vaccine. Developed countries show respect by giving their citizens appointments or by having enough vaccines for everyone. Apparently Thailand is proud over showing the rest of the world how they behave.

Moreover, people should know by now, that if they happen to get a Pfizer as a first shot, they will probably be given a Sinovac as a second. Totally demolish the real purpose of giving a quality vaccine. Maybe that is included in Amazing Thailand these days.

yes, let the hunger games begin

[PuaSai]

I find all this very sad....

[chilly07]

Tried BPH registration via Intervac first open this am. All AZ double doses taken. Sinovac AZ just booked out. Only Sinovac Sinovac available from 1-9 Sept. Presume they will set up the next round of any in 2 weeks for jabs from 10 Sept onwards. Looks like they set up at least 100 jabs per hr at Central Festival which is manageable.

Meantime Thais find it impossible to get anything other than Sinovac which they don't want!

[Isaan sailor]

You saw the news today:  3 million MORE doses of SinoVac arrived.  Gotta get more arms to shoot and use up.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They had been told to get queue numbers at Lotus from 7 am then jabbed at the hospital from 8 am.

What could possibly go wrong... great planning screw-up.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook reported that there were large crowds of people gathering at Lotus's Sailuat branch in Samut Prakan on Sunday after a hospital announced about Pfizer vaccines.

I got mine... ha ha

[smccolley]

Banglamung announced Sat that they would have Pfizer for 1000 people Monday morning at 8am at the Eastern National Sports Complex. I took my two kids to get it, leaving the house at 3:30am. There were about 30 people there at the time. By 9am they got their shots and we were leaving, the place was packed with thousands of people, all parking full and police directing traffic on the road nearby.

 

Happy my whole family now has good vaccines but what a travesty and tragedy for the other 5000+ folks.

[MrJ2U]

2 hours ago, chilly07 said:

Tried BPH registration via Intervac first open this am. All AZ double doses taken. Sinovac AZ just booked out. Only Sinovac Sinovac available from 1-9 Sept. Presume they will set up the next round of any in 2 weeks for jabs from 10 Sept onwards. Looks like they set up at least 100 jabs per hr at Central Festival which is manageable.

Meantime Thais find it impossible to get anything other than Sinovac which they don't want!

Ridiculous.

 

But joy!

 

Another 3 million doses of Sinovac arrived last night.