Senators take aim at vaccine rollout plan
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published : 25 May 2021 at 20:24
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Senators on Tuesday called on the government to improve its vaccine distribution plan as the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating.
Senate Speaker Pornpetch Wichitcholchai allowed members to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic and most zeroed in on the government’s vaccine rollout and relief measures.
Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn said migrant workers and employees in the industrial sector should be given priority for jabs after factories in several provinces had been hit by repeat clusters of infections.
He said an initial plan to wait until August before vaccinating migrant workers would be too late and said the private sector could speed up the programme by procuring its own quota of vaccines via the government and distributing them to those most in need.