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BANGKOK (Nov 2): AstraZeneca Plc provided Thailand 10.5 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine last month, the firm said on Tuesday, months after an official said the government was considering curbing exports from its local plant because of lower supplies. Thailand had been pushing for 10 million doses each month to be able to fight back against coronavirus infections in the country of about 66 million people.

AstraZeneca Plc provided Thailand 10.5 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine last month, the firm said on Tuesday, months after an official said the government was considering curbing exports from its local plant because of lower supplies.

AstraZeneca has increased vaccine production and import doses from other supply chains in a bid to help Thailand overcome the Covid-19 crisis, Managing Director of AstraZeneca Thailand James Teague said on Tuesday.

Thailand had been pushing for 10 million doses each month to be able to fight back against coronavirus infections in the country of about 66 million people. James Teague, managing director of AstraZeneca Thailand, said that the company had increased batchwise vaccine production by a fifth at its plant, from 580,000 doses to on average 700,000.

Thailand kicked off a long-awaited mass vaccination campaign on Monday as the country battles its third and worst wave of the coronavirus epidemic.

The announcement follows queries about the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine, the world’s most widely used COVID-19 jab.

As the king's vaccine producer Siam Bioscience seems to still be underproducing AstraZeneca, the regime continues to beg and borrow AZ from elsewhere. With just over 30% of the population double-dosed, the General's government continues to move towards opening. But the double standards are gross. Take movie stars arriving with crew being lauded by the…

Siam Bioscience's AstraZeneca vaccine has been included on the World Health Organisation's Emergency Use Listing, said Warat Karuchit, adviser to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in Thailand has been authorised under the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing (EUL) procedure, with immediate effect.

Thai PBS reports that the "Nang Loeng police [has] submitted its case file, on a lèse majesté charge against Progressive Group leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, to the Office of the Attorney-General today [12 October 2021]." The Bangkok Post also reports it. Lawyer Krisadang Nutcharat, said that the police decided to charge his client: over his livestream…