Government unsure if local administration budgets can be used to buy vaccines

[Thaiger]

In what could put yet another spanner in the works, the Thai government is questioning if local authorities can purchase vaccines and whether state-allocated budgets can be used for this purpose. The Bangkok Post reports that officials at the Interior Ministry fear a chaotic rollout, with several local administrative organisations racing to order supplies of Sinopharm, the latest vaccine to be approved for emergency use. Last week, the Chulabhorn Royal Academy confirmed its intention to order Sinopharm doses directly from China, which it says will supplement the government’s vaccine allocation for the national rollout, set to begin next Monday. The […]

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[King Cotton]

Thailand's entire vaccine-sourcing scenario just gets sillier and sillier . . . a poor mans pantomime, no less.

[Andrew Reeve]

It was always going to be the case of what Province you live in and how good the local political set up is and where they can source vaccine supplies.