Thailand plans to vaccinate 4 million students with Pfizer by October

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Sanook reported from parliament after education ministerial aide Kanokwan Wilaiwan responded to a question from a Pheu Thai MP about vaccinating school children and getting students off online learning and back in the class again.

 

Kanokwan said there were 900,000 teachers and school staff in the country and so far almost 600,000 had been vaccinated by August 26th. Now 320,000 remained to be jabbed.

 

She also said that there was no budget to vaccinate 12-18 year old children of which there are 4 million.

 

But the ministry has contacted the Ministry of Public Health to start using a supply of Pfizer vaccine due in the country from the end of September to vaccinate this age group.

 

These four million children would be vaccinated during a 1 month rollout according to the plan. 

 

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[JoePai]

How about sorting out the high risk group first?

[fangless]

I wish they would stop drip feeding these numbers but instead produce a table of what they have done what they are planning to do and what they have in stock and what is on order..

[Scrotobike]

1 minute ago, JoePai said:

How about sorting out the high risk group first?

Here again me confused

If youngsters (except the ill) can happily produce antibodies - why give them a jab (with possible side effects) to do this for them?

Yours hopelessly lost and loosing the will to drink my coffee

So help me please I am thirsty

[ikke1959]

In the meantime about 50 million people who have to earn a living are not being vaccinated with something decent. Sinovac is what they can get and I have heard from several friends already that they are serious ill when they get their second jab Astra Zeneca.. But this is the land of the stupid decisions so we have to live to live with that. It would be better that first the working class get a good working vaccine , than the economy can start up, lock down away and tourists be welcomed... but with students in the front row.......... 

Edited August 28, 2021 by ikke1959

[Gandtee]

'four million children would be vaccinated during a 1 month roll out according to the plan'? Really? Pull the other one. It's got bells on.????

[Kirb46Lam]

Have they finished the over sixties yet? 

What about the under sixties like I am and 

the people waiting for Moderna next year

[FritsSikkink]

34 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

'four million children would be vaccinated during a 1 month roll out according to the plan'? Really? Pull the other one. It's got bells on.????

Should be easy as they can do 600K in a day.

[FritsSikkink]

46 minutes ago, JoePai said:

How about sorting out the high risk group first?

Many are vaccinated one time already, don't know why you aren't.

[FritsSikkink]

38 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

In the meantime about 50 million people who have to earn a living are not being vaccinated with something decent. 

BS

[Rampant Rabbit]

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

Kanokwan said there were 900,000 teachers

Jesus  wept, only 620k in the UK, they must  have an incredible education system, what is  it 1  teacher  per  child, no wonder there are so many Thai inventions and geniuses

Edited August 28, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit

[khunPer]

2 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

Here again me confused

If youngsters (except the ill) can happily produce antibodies - why give them a jab (with possible side effects) to do this for them?

Yours hopelessly lost and loosing the will to drink my coffee

So help me please I am thirsty

Young people are unfortunately hit hard by the Delta-variant, so it makes good sense to vaccinate them, and Pfizer is approved from 12 years and up...????

 

2 hours ago, JoePai said:

How about sorting out the high risk group first?

It's my understanding, from reading the news, that high risk groups already have been sorted out; including foreigners that are offered Pfizer, but not many foreigners seemed to register - only 54,000 have registered out of 75,000 available double-doses donated by USA - or perhaps there are not many foreigners living in the country...????

[nowhereman]

In my school half of Thai and foreign teachers refused to be vaccinated with Sinovac and later AZ. I got both jabs but by the time of planned reopening Sinovac will have no effect anymore and AZ will be waning. So teachers wont be fully vaccinated and exposed daily. As many mentioned before vaccinate people over 60, people who have comorbidity and gradually lowering the age to kick off the economy. Kids can learn online the whole year at list in the classes that I am teaching. To be honest it is even better than the classroom learning as there are great tools to work with. Not so sure about Thai teachers and there skills online as they lack skills in the classroom as well.

Edited August 28, 2021 by nowhereman

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

If youngsters (except the ill) can happily produce antibodies - why give them a jab (with possible side effects) to do this for them?

So they can get into the fast food joints!

[FritsSikkink]

2 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Jesus  wept, only 620k in the UK, they must  have an incredible education system, what is  it 1  teacher  per  child, no wonder there are so many Thai inventions and geniuses

If the UK system is that good, why are there that many not too smart people around?

[hotandsticky]

15 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

If the UK system is that good, why are there that many not too smart people around?

 

 

There are.

 

 

You are just not bright enough to see them.

[ikke1959]

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

Young people are unfortunately hit hard by the Delta-variant, so it makes good sense to vaccinate them, and Pfizer is approved from 12 years and up...????

 

It's my understanding, from reading the news, that high risk groups already have been sorted out; including foreigners that are offered Pfizer, but not many foreigners seemed to register - only 54,000 have registered out of 75,000 available double-doses donated by USA - or perhaps there are not many foreigners living in the country...????

I think a lot of foreigners have applied already for a vaccine because no pfizer or moderna available.. Now the application is open for foreigners without any vaccination yet.. yes of course If you have paid for Moderna you don't apply for Pfizer and if you had Sinovac, Sinopharm because there is nothing else, Besides even Astra Zeneca was a problem for a foreigner. Now you can't apply anymore if you 1 of these.. So 54.000 looks a bit but in fact it the ones who finally will get something

[nowhereman]

 

On 8/16/2021 at 7:37 AM, bkk6060 said:

 

 

14 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

If the UK system is that good, why are there that many not too smart people around?

Thai student in average is learning 25 subjects, three quarters of them are brain washing and feeding nationalism. Hence that there are many teachers.    

[matchar]

Will be interesting to see how this works, I read that 3 million doses are due to arrive in September so I guess it will be the private and elite schools first.

But what about second doses? Will they open schools after one dose?

Perhaps rich students will get 2 doses before poor students even get 1.

[Emdog]

4 million students: anyone know where they are going to get 8 million Pfizer shots? So hard to keep up with...

[mtls2005]

That's 8 mm doses, must be from the 20 mm order they signed with Pfizer/THL ~ 20 July 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

[ed strong]

The UK - population 65 million, ~80% of adults fully vaccinated - is very much heading the wrong way. Deaths are up 10x - yes, tenfold - compared to this time last year. Cases are rising again.

 

Thailand has begun opening up as cases are still on the increase, as vaccinations numbers increase. Go figure that one out, basically once all the 'stock' of vaccines and orders are completed we go back to normal. However there's no way all this stock goes to waste.

 

 

My god daughter in the UK tested positive for Covid 2 weeks ago (she  had a slight headache for 2 days) and was told to isolate for 10 days, we then presumed that she would need to be tested again after the 10 days.  However we were strongly told do not re test as she would test positive again, just that as along as it was 10 day she was then fine to go out and socialise etc.

 

If you've already had covid then there is a very strong chance of you testing positive again as it remains in your body......and we are told that natural immunity is better than the vaccine.

 

How on earth do you manage a situation like this!? Potentially vaccinated the already protected? Which is a complete waste of everyones time and money.

 

Perhaps simple antibody tests could help attain their level of protection and how susceptible they might be and whether a vaccine might help them against the newest strains.

Also no point to vaccinate against a strain that is no longer prevalent.

Edited August 28, 2021 by ed strong

[4MyEgo]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

yes of course If you have paid for Moderna you don't apply for Pfizer

If I listened to you, I would be vulnerable, e.g. I got my 1st dose of Pfizer on Monday, even though I paid for Moderna back in June for October, if it arrives then, albeit I am told by many that it won't arrive till early next year, we won't mention the Thai Red Cross skimmed 1.1 million doses of the 5 million doses from the private hospitals proposed order thanks to government interference when there were 9 million people who wanted to pay for it.

 

What you are saying is those that paid for Moderna shouldn't take Pfizer when they are (me included) entitled to it, as far as I am concerned Moderna will become a booster shot for me next year regardless if it arrives in October, i.e. I will just move the date back.

 

I consider my move to be rather prudent as opposed to sitting and waiting for Covid to knock on my door with no protection, and I would rather take my chances better now being vaccinated with 1 dose, soon to be 2. 

 

If you paid for Moderna and believe that you shouldn't take Pfizer, then I would call you a hero, let's leave that there shall we.

[khunPer]

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I think a lot of foreigners have applied already for a vaccine because no pfizer or moderna available.. Now the application is open for foreigners without any vaccination yet.. yes of course If you have paid for Moderna you don't apply for Pfizer and if you had Sinovac, Sinopharm because there is nothing else, Besides even Astra Zeneca was a problem for a foreigner. Now you can't apply anymore if you 1 of these.. So 54.000 looks a bit but in fact it the ones who finally will get something

Yes, but I still read postings from farang-aliens complaining about no vaccine is available for them, both here and in another forum, so 75 minus 55 (54 rounded up) would mean that there are Phizer vaccine enough for another about 20,000 people.

[ikke1959]

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

If I listened to you, I would be vulnerable, e.g. I got my 1st dose of Pfizer on Monday, even though I paid for Moderna back in June for October, if it arrives then, albeit I am told by many that it won't arrive till early next year, we won't mention the Thai Red Cross skimmed 1.1 million doses of the 5 million doses from the private hospitals proposed order thanks to government interference when there were 9 million people who wanted to pay for it.

 

What you are saying is those that paid for Moderna shouldn't take Pfizer when they are (me included) entitled to it, as far as I am concerned Moderna will become a booster shot for me next year regardless if it arrives in October, i.e. I will just move the date back.

 

I consider my move to be rather prudent as opposed to sitting and waiting for Covid to knock on my door with no protection, and I would rather take my chances better now being vaccinated with 1 dose, soon to be 2. 

 

If you paid for Moderna and believe that you shouldn't take Pfizer, then I would call you a hero, let's leave that there shall we.

It is not about taking or not taing a Pfizer.. It is that it is only open for people who DID not any vaccine yet....

[FritsSikkink]

3 hours ago, nowhereman said:

 

 

Thai student in average is learning 25 subjects

Not even half that.

[4MyEgo]

5 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

It is not about taking or not taing a Pfizer.. It is that it is only open for people who DID not any vaccine yet....

You said: "I think a lot of foreigners have applied already for a vaccine because no pfizer or moderna available.. Now the application is open for foreigners without any vaccination yet.. yes of course If you have paid for Moderna you don't apply for Pfizer and if you had Sinovac, Sinopharm because there is nothing else, Besides even Astra Zeneca was a problem for a foreigner. Now you can't apply anymore if you 1 of these.. So 54.000 looks a bit but in fact it the ones who finally will get something"

[FritsSikkink]

3 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

There are.

 

 

You are just not bright enough to see them.

You aren't smart enough to understand what i say: There are many .....

[BangkokReady]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Kanokwan said there were 900,000 teachers and school staff in the country and so far almost 600,000 had been vaccinated by August 26th. Now 320,000 remained to be jabbed.

 

She also said that there was no budget to vaccinate 12-18 year old children of which there are 4 million.

Still cannot open until all the people these teachers and students will come into contact with are also vaccinated.  Vaccination doesn't prevent catching or spreading the virus.

[rbkk]

8 hours ago, Gandtee said:

'four million children would be vaccinated during a 1 month roll out according to the plan'? Really? Pull the other one. It's got bells on.????

If they can put 57 students into a classroom I'm sure their target seems achievable to them!