Thailand launches national vaccination campaign
People wait in a gymnasium in Bangkok awaiting their first vaccine injection on June 7, 2021. REUTERS - SOE ZEYA TUN
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Thailand, hailed for its management of the first phase of the epidemic crisis last year, but now criticized for its delay in the vaccination program, begins its national campaign on Monday, June 7.
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With our correspondent in Bangkok,
Carol Isoux
Nearly two million doses of the AstraZenecca vaccine, produced locally by Siam Bioscience, are ready.
In total, six million are expected during the month of June.
Faced with the
upsurge in infections
, Thailand is launching its vaccination campaign on Monday, June 7.
The vaccine priorities were decided according to age and profession: nursing staff, teachers first, but also all those who will be exposed to the expected return of tourists, such as taxi drivers.
Target: 70% of first doses by September
The population of the island of Phuket in the south of the country, which will be the site of a pilot project to partially reopen to tourism from July, has already benefited from its own campaign, in particular thanks to Chinese vaccines.
The Ministry of Health expects to have administered a first dose of vaccine to 70% of the population by September, when the country intends to start exports of locally produced vaccine.
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