By Thai Newsroom Reporters QUESTIONS have arisen about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in protecting people against the “double mutant” coronavirus variant that emerged in India. This issue came to the limelight after Dr Rajendra Kapila, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University in US, died upon getting infected with the Indian strain during
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Travel agencies offering Covid-19 ‘vaccine tours’ to US
By Reuters Staff, published by MSN News TRAVEL agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus “vaccine tours” to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the country’s biggest outbreak so far. The tours reflect global differences in vaccinations, with the United States and Britain
Read morePhuket accelerates vaccination for July 1 reopening
PHUKET authorities started speeding up Covid vaccination of local residents two days ago to meet the government’s target to reopen the island to vaccinated tourists on July 1, 2021, Siam Rath newspaper said today (April 3). Mr. Narong Woonciew, the governor, said the target is to vaccinate 70% of the residents, or 466,587 people, by
Read moreMinistry probing patient’s death after Covid vaccination
THE Public Health Ministry is investigating the death of an abdominal aneurysm patient who died of this same ailment after being given a Covid vaccine jab, Sanook.com said this morning (March 26, 2021). Deputy Public Health Minister Sophon Mekthon, who chairs the Subcommittee of Covid-19 Vaccine Administration and Management, said the unidentified patient who was
Read more319 got first Covid jab so far, all in good health
NO SERIOUS side effects have been found among the 319 people who got the first of two Covid-19 vaccinations over the weekend (Feb. 27-28), Sanook.com said today (March 1, 2021). Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), said of the 319 who already got the first jab of the coronavirus vaccine
Read moreSports face vaccine dilemma ahead of Olympics
PARIS – As Olympic organisers deny reports that the Tokyo Games this summer will be postponed again, they, and other sports bodies, are wrestling with the issue of vaccinating participants for Covid-19 at international events. Denis Masseglia, the president of the French National Olympic Committee, said there was no choice but to vaccinate and that
Read moreIndia’s Covid-19 vaccination drive hits bump due to app glitch
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia Satara, India: India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive hit a bump on the first day due to glitches in an app called Co-Win that is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in the immunisation programme. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched what his government has described
Read moreIn Covid-19 milestone for West, Britain starts mass vaccination
By Reuters Staff, published by US News London: A 90-year-old grandmother became the world’s first person to receive a fully-tested Covid-19 shot today (Dec. 8), as Britain began mass-vaccinating its people in a global drive that poses one of the biggest logistical challenges in peacetime history. Health workers started inoculating the most vulnerable with the
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