Thailand restarts AstraZeneca vaccine rollout amid side effect fears 1 minute read Bangkok, Mar 16 (efe-epa).- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and other ministers of his government received the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine Tuesday after delaying its rollout amid side effect fears. “Today, I am boosting confidence for the general public,” Prayuth said. Thailand has launched its massive vaccination campaign to inoculate some 30 million people this summer. The country postponed its Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine rollout on Friday after several European countries did so over reports of blood clots. On Monday, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain decided to suspend the vaccine distribution developed jointly by British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University.