Booster shots for Sinovac recipients available next week

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - People in Thailand who have already received two shots of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine will be able to get their booster shots from 24th September onwards, while a vaccination drive for students receiving Pfizer jabs will start on 4th October.

 

The Government Spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana revealed today that the government is planning to distribute 24 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from now until the end of October in the national vaccination program, as more supplies are becoming available from manufacturers.

 

The national vaccination program is to start covering adolescents 12-17 years old with the arrival of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine later this month, with 4.8 million doses reserved for this group until the end of October. The government now expects to start vaccinating the younger population starting on 4th October.

 

16.8 million more doses of vaccine from various manufacturers are being reserved for adults over 18 years old, with 800,000 more doses reserved for workers insured with Social Security, and 1.1 million doses for government agencies and correctional facilities.

 

The government will also be launching its booster shot campaign, starting with those who received two shots of Sinovac’s Coronavac vaccine. Some 500,000 more doses will be reserved for this group. These booster shots will officially be offered from 24th September onwards.

 

Additional vaccine supplies from Moderna and Sinopharm, are also expected to be available in October, adding to the number of doses acquired by the government.

 

Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine will soon be available at private hospitals as a paid alternative, or via the Thai Red Cross Society, while Chulabhorn Royal Academy has been procuring and distributing Sinopharm’s COVILO vaccine in Thailand, to complement the government’s vaccine rollout.

 

The government spokesman said Thailand will be receiving a total of 152.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine this year, sufficient to cover 50 million people or 70% the country’s population.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-09-19

 

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[Blumpie]

Far be it from me to make an insinuation, but getting a booster shot from a sinovac inoculation is a jolly good idea.  

[rgrdns]

I wonder where suddenly all these Pfizer vaccines come from...produced in China called Fosun Pharma maybe?

 

PfizerBioNTech is recently named Comirnaty

[Hamus Yaigh]

2 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

People in Thailand who have already received two shots of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine will be able to get their booster shots from 24th September onwards,

Where is the registration site for that?

[rwill]

7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine will soon be available at private hospitals as a paid alternative

Which has already been presold.  Most likely oversold.

[Tracyb]

Will people who have had two jabs funded by the government be eligible to receive Moderna jabs that they paid for months ago?

[DogNo1]

Where will the shots be available?  I'm an over 75 who received my first AstraZeneca at Bang Sue on July 5th.  I'm told that Bang Sue is not giving second shots any more and the hospitals and websites that I've checked are only giving first shots.  Where will these second and booster shots be available?  I hope that we are informed where to go or sign up later in the month.  Why can't the local press publicize where the vaccines will be available.  Why is everything here so <deleted>?

Edited September 20, 2021 by metisdead
Profane acronym removed.

[jessicar]

Yeah, go for it. And next month have another booster. 

Something wrong with you guys, but up to you

[Soikhaonoiken]

If people had been give a proven 1st and 2nd jab in the first place, instead of this Sinovac,  then the booster jabs could have been given a lot later in the Year,  I think WHO recommended 6 months after your 2nd jab... 

[jerrymahoney]

2 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

If people had been give a proven 1st and 2nd jab in the first place, instead of this Sinovac,  then the booster jabs could have been given a lot later in the Year,  I think WHO recommended 6 months after your 2nd jab... 

"BANGKOK: Thailand received on Wednesday (Feb 24, 2021) its first 200,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac, the country's first batch of coronavirus vaccines, with inoculations set to begin in a few days."

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-covid-19-china-vaccine-sinovac-coronavac-371746

 

What 'proven' vaccines were readily available to Thailand back then?

 

 

 

[SmartyMarty]

may as well drink a glass of water instead of a chinese vaccine booster.

[jerrymahoney]

26 minutes ago, SmartyMarty said:

may as well drink a glass of water instead of a chinese vaccine booster.

JAKARTA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The COVID-19 death rate for people in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta who were not vaccinated was more than three times higher than those who were, according to new health ministry data.

 

The mortality rate of those who were not vaccinated was 15.5% compared with 4.1% for those who had received two shots of either the Sinovac (SVA.O) or AstraZeneca (AZN.L) vaccine, according to data from state hospitals and almost 68,000 patients in Jakarta from May to July.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-finds-covid-deaths-more-than-three-times-higher-unvaccinated-2021-08-05/

 

[Soikhaonoiken]

18 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

"BANGKOK: Thailand received on Wednesday (Feb 24, 2021) its first 200,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac, the country's first batch of coronavirus vaccines, with inoculations set to begin in a few days."

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-covid-19-china-vaccine-sinovac-coronavac-371746

 

What 'proven' vaccines were readily available to Thailand back then?

 

 

 

Thailand or should I say this Government had opportunity to purchase /order vacines over 18 months ago, and many Countries did purchase vaccine, but also Thailand refused to join Covax to obtain proven vaccine,, but they chose to buy vaccine from the motherland, no doubt with large brown envelopes attached... 

[jerrymahoney]

4 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Thailand or should I say this Government had opportunity to purchase /order vacines over 18 months ago, and many Countries did purchase vaccine, but also Thailand refused to join Covax to obtain proven vaccine,, but they chose to buy vaccine from the motherland, no doubt with large brown envelopes attached... 

No doubt. Purchase/order is one thing; delivery is another.

 

Unless the U.S. changes its vaccine policy, the world will look at us like hoarders

April 4, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+7

 

(However), the U.S. has already procured enough vaccines for the entire U.S. population.

 

In February, the U.S. signed deals with Pfizer and Moderna bringing up the supply from them to 600 million (enough for 300 million people).

 

It will soon become hard to escape the conclusion that the U.S. is hoarding vaccines.

 

https://fortune.com/2021/04/04/us-vaccine-hoarding-nationalism-diplomacy-china-russia-india/

Edited September 20, 2021 by jerrymahoney
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