BANGKOK: Critics have voiced concerns over reports that the Ministry of Public Health will cease providing daily bulletins containing the number of new COVID-19 infections over the preceding 24-hour p
Calls for booster jabs grow after nurse s death
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published : 12 Jul 2021 at 05:30
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Calls to give medical workers a booster shot are growing after a 30-year-old nurse died after contracting Covid-19 despite having received two doses of the Sinovac vaccine.
News of the death was first shared on Sunday by a Facebook user who goes by the name Siwakorn Rattanakuntee , who wrote that her cousin Donut a nurse at a group isolation ward died after contracting the virus from her workplace.
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Medical Council urges govt to boost jab supply
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published : 10 Jul 2021 at 07:16
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The Thai Medical Council is calling on the government and private sector to procure sufficient supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, including the newer mRNA type, to ensure that all Thais can be vaccinated promptly and free of charge.
In a statement signed by council chairwoman Prof Somsri Phaosawat, the council also insisted that frontline medical workers should receive proper mRNA vaccines and noted that vaccinations should be free for all as stipulated in Section 47 of the charter. She also recommended that people accept whichever official vaccine they are first offered due to evidence that even a single shot can reduce the severity of symptoms.
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Thursday gave an assurance the country's public health system will not collapse despite the number of hospital beds and health personnel being at critically low levels amid soaring new Covid-19 cases.