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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.