Thailand provides fund for production of Covid-19 vaccine


This file photo taken on May 23, 2020 shows a laboratory technician holding a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate ready for trial on monkeys at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Saraburi. - AFP

BANGKOK (Xinhua): Thailand is providing some one billion baht (about US$31.77 million) in funding for the production of an anti-coronavirus vaccine, said Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha on Tuesday (Aug 25).

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the fund for a co-investment project on the anti-coronavirus vaccine production between the Thai government and Oxford University and for a similar project between the Thai government and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, according to the deputy public health minister.

   

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