Authorities defend vaccine policy

10 April 2021
Bangkok Post
Pandemics
Covid-19 / Covid-19 vaccines / vaccine policy

Authorities insist they have never stopped the private sector from importing Covid-19 vaccines as criticism persists, even after they confirmed that up to 10 million doses could be ordered.

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday that the government fully supported plans by the private sector to buy “alternative vaccines”.

Only two companies — Sinovac Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca (AZ) — are included in the government’s procurement plans for its free jab programme over the next two years. Another one million doses of CoronaVac from Sinovac arrived in the country on Saturday.

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 Bangkok Post Reporter

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