AstraZeneca vaccine approved, 50,000 doses due in February 46 published : 21 Jan 2021 at 18:28 46 A nurse shows a vial of AstraZeneca's CoviShield vaccine during the coronavirus disease vaccination campaign at a medical centre in Mumbai on Saturday. (Reuters photo) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the emergency use of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and 50,000 doses of it will arrive in Thailand in February. FDA secretary-general Paisarn Dunkum said on Thursday that the FDA approved the registration of the vaccine, produced in Italy by AstraZeneca Co, on Wednesday after the firm had submitted nearly 10,000 pages of its documents for vaccine registration for emergency use on Dec 22 last year.