AZ delivers first 1.8m doses of vaccine
published : 4 Jun 2021 at 15:51
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Apinya Wipatayotin
AstraZeneca delivered 1.8 million doses of its locally produced Covid-19 vaccine to the Ministry of Public Health on Friday, the first of six million doses scheduled for delivery this month.
AstraZeneca (Thailand) said it started receiving deliveries from its Thai producer, Siam Bioscience, on Wednesday.
AstraZeneca's country president said the delivery was significant and marked the start of a sustainable supply in Thailand.
“We are confident that production is on track. And we have worked closely with the Department of Disease Control in updating the amount of production per week,” he said.
However, he refused to say how many doses Siam Bioscience would deliver each month
The ministry plans to distribute the 1.8 million doses to provinces countrywide. Each province had earlier received 3,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Vocabulary
- confident: being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future - มั่นใจ
- distribute: to give out information to many different places - แจกจ่าย; เผยแพร่
- dose: an amount of drug that has been measured so that you can take it - ปริมาณยาที่ให้ต่อครั้ง
- producer: a person, a company or a country that grows or makes food, goods or materials - ผู้ผลิต
- refuse (verb): to say or show that you will not do something; to say or show that you will not do something that someone has asked you to do - ปฏิเสธ
- significant: important - สำคัญ
- sustainable: able to be successfully continued for a long time - ยั่งยืน, ถาวร
