Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, left, and Yang Xin, right, Charge d'Affaires of China embassy of Thailand, clap during a ceremony to mark the arrival of 200,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine shipment at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb 24, 2021. BANGKOK: Thailand kicked off its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday , with ministers, health officials and medical professionals among the first in the queue to receive vaccinations.
The first doses of vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, were given to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is also the health minister, among others at an infectious diseases institute on the outskirts of Bangkok."I hope that the vaccination will result in people being safe from the spread of COVID-19 and it allows Thailand to return to normalcy as soon as possible," Anutin told reporters afterwards.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, 66, attended the event, although his age falls outside the range of 18 to 59 suitable to receive Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine, so he did not get it.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.