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Vaccine will be ready in June as planned published : 24 May 2021 at 21:00 10 An official at the Department of Medical Sciences tests AstraZeneca vaccine samples produced by Siam Bioscience on April 29 this year. (Photo by Thana Boonlert) Authorities have said more AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will be delivered by schedule next month, following a concern the much-anticipated shots made by a local facility might not be available as planned. Some vaccination centres reported on Monday that they had run out of AstraZeneca shots and had only the Si...

Covid heat building up for government 42 42 People at The Mall Bang Kapi in the capital get vaccinated against Covid-19. The government is turning to the private sector — such as department stores and private hospitals — to provide locations for its jab drive. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard) The explosive spread of Covid-19 in Bangkok's prisons came to light only a few days ago. It was the latest indication of what has gone wrong with the government's latest handlings of the pandemic. Just recently prison authorities boasted that it had in place effective measures...

As vaccine diplomacy thrives and vaccine nationalism rears its head, it has become clear that the ideal global solution to the collective action problem of the coronavirus pandemic is for all countries to put their eggs in the same basket. If all countries are forced to rely on the global vaccine alliances' and the World Health Organization's Covid-19 Global Vaccines Access (Covax) plan, whereby any vaccine for one means an available antidote for all, the post-pandemic recovery would arrive faster and smoother with more promising prospects. But short of the ideal solution, the global...

The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on the health and economies of countries in the Bay of Bengal. India, Bangladesh, and Nepal are the region’s most affected countries in terms of COVID-19 cases and deaths, followed by Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. It seems that Bhutan and Thailand, the least affected countries in the region, have successfully escaped the brunt of the pandemic. All these countries implemented strict lockdowns as early as March 2020, and the region’s recovery rates have been relatively high. However, the devastation from the pandemic did not reach its peak un...

10 05 2021 Without explanation (that we can see), the Bangkok Post has changed an online story. Guess what it is about? The king’s Siam Bioscience company. It might be a small thing, but it is illustrative of how the system works. Someone got upset, got on the phone and the story gets changed. If it was legitimate, you’d expect a note, but not in royalist Thailand. Here’s the original story: Siam Bioscience-produced AstraZeneca vaccine passes quality testing 9 May 2021 at 13:31 Samples from test batches of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Siam Bioscience have passed quality t...