France donates 1m new Moderna doses
published : 14 Mar 2023 at 06:11
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Apinya Wipatayotin
Another batch of just over one million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine from the French government was handed over to Thailand yesterday.
The handover was made, by the French ambassador to Thailand, to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Mr Anutin, on behalf of the Thai government, thanked the French government for its help.
The Ministry of Public Health will distribute the vaccine countrywide, Mr Anutin said.
With this new donation, France will have offered more than 4.2 million doses of vaccines to Thailand since March 2022, according to the France embassy.
Since the start of the pandemic, France has donated more than 90 million vaccine doses around the globe.
Vocabulary
- ambassador: a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there - ทูต
- batch: a group of things considered similar in type - พวก, ชุด, กลุ่ม
- distribute: to give something out to many different places - แจกจ่าย
- donate: to give something such as money or goods to an organisation, especially to a temple, charity, school, political party, etc. - บริจาค
- donation: money or goods that you give to an organisation, especially one that helps people - เงินหรือสิ่งของบริจาค
- globe (noun): the world, Earth, or a similar round-shaped planet - โลก
- handover: offiicially giving somebody else control or the responsibility for something - การมอบ
- on behalf of: as a representative of - ในนามของ ในฐานะของ
