Thailand is planned to be the Southeast Asia production base for Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra-Zeneca is working with Oxford to make the vaccine, if and when it is approved, globally available and Siam Bioscience will manufacture the vaccine in Thailand.
Thailand is planned to be the production base for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, which includes Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos.
Out of the 1 trillion baht allocated to public health in the 2021 fiscal budget, 40 billion baht has been set aside to for Covid-19 related measures, like production of a vaccine, according deputy government spokesperson Traisuree Taisranakul. Back in July, the Thai government announced it was setting aside 600 million baht to purchase supplies for the Oxford vaccine.
“The vaccine production of Oxford University is in constant development and has made great progress, with human tests being conducted.”
In earlier report, the British Embassy in Bangkok said if the vaccine is successful, it will be available to the Thai population by the first half of 2021. A Covid-19 vaccine is seen as a lifeline for Thailand’s tourism-dependant economy that has been battered by the pandemic’s travel restrictions. Some have said the economy won’t pick back up again until a vaccine is available.
The caveat on all the excitement about a Covid-19 vaccine is that there has never been a successful development of a coronavirus vaccine. But the worldwide economic impact is spurring on significant efforts to find one ASAP that will hopefully prove successful in preventing Covid-19 infection.
SOURCE: Nation Thailand
“Global trials of the vaccine, called AZD1222 or ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, were put on hold on September 6 after a study participant fell ill with what was believed to be a rare spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis.”
Read this above in a recent news report.
Some phrases that that make this obviously a propaganda piece and not hard news;
‘is planned’, ‘ ‘if and when it is approved’, ‘if the vaccine is successful’, and
“The caveat on all the excitement about a Covid-19 vaccine is that there has never been a successful development of a corona virus vaccine”
In the last quote, note the word NEVER.
And need I say again, all this for – an illness that has not even affected 99.99% of the Thai population – for a scary deadly killer virus that hasn’t killed more than 0.014% of the world population – and has not affected 99.48% of the people in the world (and this assumes you choose to believe the inflated numbers from the WHO).
Vaccine shot available – uh yea, you go first and good luck
Be part of the solution, not the problem.
For sure: Critic is so easy, but art is difficult even if you are Mr xyz who knows everything…
“And need I say again …”
No, you needn’t.
If you want to stick your head in the sand, though, feel free …
Heureusement qu’il n’a pas touché 99,99% de la population!
Imbecile! Read all the facts and not only the ones that suit your narrative.
Thailand makes the vaccine but only gets 50% coverage. I bet not. They will just sell the extra through corruption. Like normal
Thai gov is betting the farm on this vaccine.
Sign me up! I will gladly be the first in line for a vaccine! Even if it’s not 100%, I’ll gladly take it to improve my odds.
That’s a good thing. Strengthen relations with UK, on the best it has to offer. Thailand is the best place, Thai medical/therapeutics industry is 1st class.