Thailand's elderly lag behind in vaccination driveA woman gets a shot of a coronavirus disease vaccine at the Central Vaccination Center as Thailand opens a walk-in for the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccination scheme for elders, people with a minimum weight of 100 kilograms and pregnant women amid the coronavirus outbreak in Bangkok on July 23 this year. In Indonesia, only 17% of the elderly have been fully vaccinated, but that is still higher than the 13% for the total population. The proportion of elderly deaths has risen, pointing to the possible impact of slow vaccinations. Critics of Thailand's vaccination policy blame it in part for a spike to more than 10,000 deaths in a country where fewer than 100 people died of Covid-19 last year. "They should have vaccinated the elderly right after health and frontline workers," said 18-year-old Thippawan Rodinthra, whose 78-year-old grandfather died of Covid-19 last month.

Source: Bangkok Post August 31, 2021 12:22 UTC