“AstraZeneca is still a good vaccine but with what has happened … the health ministry based on this advice would like to postpone the usage of the AstraZeneca vaccine momentarily,” Kiattiphum said. Thailand has so far recorded just over 26,500 coronavirus infections and 85 fatalities in a population of 66.5 million. Thailand has so far administered about 40,000 of the 200,000 recently received doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac, Kiattiphum said. The country also last week received 117,300 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which the prime minister and his cabinet had been scheduled to receive on Friday. Kiattiphum said that Thailand’s imported doses were not from the same batch that is being investigated in Europe.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 12, 2021 03:22 UTC