BANGKOK, July 24 — Drugmaker AstraZeneca said today it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus.
Under the terms of AstraZeneca’s agreement with Thai authorities, 180 million doses are due for production, one-third destined for the Thai market and the rest to be exported. “We are also scouring the 20+ supply chains in our worldwide manufacturing network to find additional vaccines for Southeast Asia, including Thailand.”
The AstraZeneca contract was awarded last year to Siam Bioscience, a firm owned by King Maha Vajiralongkorn that has no track record of producing vaccines.
Get it from Australia... Heard the people there refuse to take AZ vaccines that is there.
We dont need Astra Zeneca. Sinovac is proving to be the more effective vaccine.
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