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A vial labelled with the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Malaysian health authorities said on Friday conditional approval had been granted for AstraZeneca's
COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Siam Bioscience Co in Thailand.
Health Ministry director-general, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said in a statement the vaccine supply received from Thailand is expected to speed up implementation of Malaysia's national vaccination programme.
The government had previously put the AstraZeneca vaccine in a parallel optional programme after reports of possible links to very rare blood clots. read more
But the vaccine was brought back into the national immunisation programme last week after hundreds of thousands of people scrambled to get the shot.