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Private hospitals can buy 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, in addition to the government s purchases, to help create herd immunity amid rising numbers of new infections, a senior spokesman said yesterday. Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, as head of the CCSA, had approved the move. He was responding to claims that the government was monopolising vaccine imports and preventing private firms from buying and selling shots. Private hospitals could procure a total of 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, enough to inoculate 5 million people, he said. The decision was made at a meeting between the prime minister and senior officials of the Public Health Ministry, the Department of Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO), the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), and representatives of private hospitals and the Private Hospi

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