1 million additional vaccine doses being purchased for Bangkok residents

[Thaiger]

The Thai government has pledged to purchase an additional 1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for Bangkok residents in the coming 2 weeks. Apisamai Srirangson from the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration says the plan is to vaccinate 70% of the capital’s residents, but to date only 43.6% have been vaccinated. The Bangkok Post reports that the Disease Control Department will purchase 500,000 vaccine doses by next week, with another 500,000 doses coming the week after. Meanwhile, the Public Health Ministry has also vowed to solve the hospital bed shortage. Apisamai says that since February 28, 13.2 million vaccine doses have […]

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[JamesE]

One million doses of what, exactly? And "purchase" or "accept delivery of"? Context here, as with all things in Thailand, would be helpful.

[stuhan]

Oh great lets all us oldies move to Bangkok shall we.

[Graham]

2 minutes ago, JamesE said:

One million doses of what, exactly? And "purchase" or "accept delivery of"? Context here, as with all things in Thailand, would be helpful.

That was my question too, maybe it's water. 555

[Changnam43]

3 minutes ago, JamesE said:

One million doses of what, exactly? And "purchase" or "accept delivery of"? Context here, as with all things in Thailand, would be helpful.

If it were anything good they would be shouting about it so I assume it's more of the dubious Chinese stuff.