First batch of Pfizer jabs arrives
published : 30 Sep 2021 at 15:01
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Apinya Wipatayotin
Two million doses of government-purchased Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine landed in Thailand early Wednesday morning.
The vaccines are part of 30 million doses to be obtained by the end of this year, government spokeswoman Traisuree Taisoranakul said.
The shipment arrived via international courier before dawn, then was later handed over to Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in the company of senior ministry officials.
Mr Anutin said Pfizer will deliver another 6 million doses in October, followed by more every week until completing delivery of the full 30 million.
One-third of the total, 10 million doses, is reserved for children aged 12-18 years. The rest will be for the general public as determined by the Disease Control Department.
The Pfizer vaccine will also be used in cross-vaccine formulas decided by a sub-committee on immunisation: Sinovac plus AstraZeneca, or AstraZeneca plus Pfizer.
Mr Anutin said the first shipment would go to the Medical Sciences Department and the Food and Drug Administration for a verification process, before being delivered to target areas throughout the country. He expected inoculations with the Pfizer vaccine to start next week.
Vocabulary
- batch: a group of things considered similar in type - พวก, ชุด, กลุ่ม
- courier: a person or company whose job is to take packages or important papers somewhere - ผู้ส่งสาร
- cross: a mixture of two different things - การผสมผสาน
- determine: to officially find out or decide something - ตัดสินใจ ชี้ขาด
- dose (noun): an amount of drug or something else that you take at a single time or affects you at a single time - ปริมาณที่ให้ต่อครั้ง
- formula (noun): a particular method of doing or achieving something - สูตร
- general public: people in general - ประชาชน, สาธารณชน, มหาชน
- immunisation (noun): the act of protecting a person or an animal from a disease, especially by giving them an injection of a vaccine - การก่อภูมิคุ้มกัน
- in the company of: together with someone - พร้อมด้วย
- obtain: to get something that you want or need, especially by going through a process that is difficult - ได้มา, ได้รับ
- reserve: kept for use for something or someone - ที่จัดสรรไว้ สำรอง
- verification: the process of checking that something is true or accurate - การพิสูจน์ความจริง, การตรวจสอบความเป็นจริง
- via (preposition): using, by way of, through - โดยทาง, โดยเส้นทาง, ทาง
