Second batch of Pfizer arrives Saturday
published : 13 Aug 2021 at 09:36
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
A second batch of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines for healthcare professionals in 77 provinces is expected to arrive on Saturday, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).
Opas Karnkawinpong of the DDC said 257,200 doses of the US-made vaccine should arrive in the provinces no later than tomorrow.
He said a total of 700,000 doses had been distributed with the first batch of 442,800 doses delivered last Wednesday and Thursday.
Dr Opas said the delivery was divided into two batches one week apart.
The Pfizer vaccines, donated by the US government, will be given as boosters to medical personnel and frontline workers who have already received two shots of Sinovac.
The US government last month donated a total of 1,503,450 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Thailand to help the country's fight against Covid-19.
Dr Opas said the department had not hoarded the vaccine for VIPs.
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Vocabulary
- batch: a group - กลุ่ม
- booster (noun): something that gives extra strength - สิ่งที่เพิ่มกำลังหรือความแข็งแรง
- divide (verb): to break or split into two pieces - แบ่ง, See also: แยก, แบ่งแยก, แยกเป็นสองส่วน
- donate: to give something such as money or goods to an organisation, especially to a temple, charity, school, political party, etc. - บริจาค
- dose (noun): an amount of drug or something else that you take at a single time or affects you at a single time - ปริมาณที่ให้ต่อครั้ง
- frontline: directly involved where fighting takes place - แนวหน้า
- hoard: to collect a large amount of something - เก็บสะสม
- personnel: the people who are employed in a company, organization or one of the armed forces - บุคลากร, เจ้าหน้าที่, พนักงาน
