News Forum - France donates over 3 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Thailand

[Thaiger]

France has shown its support for Thailand’s fight against Covid-19 by donating over three million doses of Pfizer vaccines to the Kingdom of Thailand. The donation will be well-received by Thai people as surveys reveal that Thais have more confidence in the effectiveness of the U.S.-produced Pfizer vaccine than they do in Thai vaccines. The French ambassador Thierry Mathou officially presented the donation to Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday, April 4. France donated 3,268,620 doses of Pfizer vaccines in total. The first delivery of 400,140 doses took place on March 12 and the second delivery of 2,868,480 doses at […]

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[Soidog]

16 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

The donation will be well-received by Thai people as surveys reveal that Thais have more confidence in the effectiveness of the U.S.-produced Pfizer vaccine than they do in Thai vaccines.

Which Thai vaccines are they then?  I must have missed something? 

[Manu]

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France has shown its support for Thailand’s fight against Covid-19 by donating over three million doses of Pfizer vaccines to the Kingdom of Thailand.

A vast amount of people in France did/do not want a 3rd dose, I guess it is better to donate them rather to let them go to waste, a nice political move to consolidate the "cooperation in various areas of mutual interest" rather than a desinteressed gesture.

[Manu]

23 minutes ago, Manu said:

A vast amount of people in France did/do not want a 3rd dose, I guess it is better to donate them rather to let them go to waste, a nice political move to consolidate the "cooperation in various areas of mutual interest" rather than a desinteressed gesture.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/hundreds-of-millions-of-covid-vaccine-doses-risk-going-to-waste

[Pompies]

"So we have given you a lot of vaccine Monsieur Prayuth, now how about you buy some French submarines. We can offer you a big discount on the ones that the Ozzie's no longer want, zut alors they are such a bargain!"