Health Ministry Buys COVID Antibodies from AstraZeneca

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BANGKOK (TNA) – Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul attended a contract-signing ceremony in which the Ministry of Public Health agreed to buy from AstraZeneca long acting antibodies (LAAB) to protect patients with impaired immunity from COVID-19.

 

Mr Anutin said that earlier the Department of Disease Control under the Ministry of Public Health had procured the viral vector COVID-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca to develop immunity among local people.

 

However, some groups of vaccine recipients either were unable to develop the immunity or lost their antibodies quickly and thus risked severe illness or fatality after infection, he said. The minister referred to people with chronic renal diseases and those who received immunosuppressive agents after their organ or bone marrow transplantation.

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-973794

 

-- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2022-07-07

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Ah now I understand the reason behind the dual pricing proposal for hotels....Medical tourism to make more money to pay for these new antibodies.....