Thai people will get their first shots of a Covid-19 vaccine by mid-2021 at the earliest. The vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford will be produced locally by Siam Bioscience Group, located in Pathum Thani. "If the vaccine gets approval from the Thai FDA, we will start our production for the public by the middle of next year. The Thai Department of Disease Control (DDC) says that it requires two million doses per month from the Pathum Thani plant, which can, at full capacity, produce 15 million doses per month. "Giving 26 million doses of vaccine to over 13 million people is unprecedented in Thailand.

Source: Bangkok Post November 25, 2020 03:35 UTC