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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will have to wait for the Ministry of Public Health to complete paperwork and quality checks for the batch of AstraZeneca vaccines before he gets his anti-Covid-19 jab.
Sopon: Public gets jabs in May
"We need to defer the plan to give the jab to the prime minister because the Ministry of Public Health still has to complete quality checks for the AstraZeneca vaccine," Sopon Mekthon, chairman of the subcommittee on the management of Covid-19 vaccines, said yesterday, explaining why the inoculation plan for the prime minister scheduled for today was abruptly postponed.
Dr Sopon said the first jab using another vaccine -- CoronaVac developed by China-based Sinovac -- would go ahead today as planned.