Travel deals on agenda as jabs start
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vaccine passports poised for launch
published : 14 Mar 2021 at 06:22
50 A view inside Suvarnabhumi airport in March. The number of foreign travellers arriving in Thailand has fallen by half since the virus outbreak. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
Thailand is expected to begin signing vaccine passport deals with other countries next month, says the Public Health Ministry.
Director-General of the Department of Disease Control Opas Karnkawinpong on Saturday announced that Thailand was planning to enter into bilateral agreements on vaccine passports with low-incidence countries which had begun vaccinating their people against Covid-19. The vaccine passport scheme will take shape within three months, Dr Opas said.
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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.