Govt on track to distribute locally made vaccines

The government’s plan to produce the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine locally is on track to be ready to begin mass inoculations in June, with a capacity to make up to 18 million doses per month, a senior official said.

It was still unclear how many would go to Thai citizens and how many would be exported to other South-East Asian countries under a deal with UK-based AstraZeneca that has come under fire from opposition critics for being too slow and lacking transparency.