Thailand did not reject Pfizer vaccine: health minister


Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul handing over Covid-19 vaccines to health workers in this file picture from April 2, 2021. - AFP

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul flatly denied a rumour on social media that American pharmaceutical company Pfizer had proposed to sell 13 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to Thailand four times but this was rejected by the government.

“This rumour is not true, ” he wrote on his Facebook page.

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