Thailand to ramp up vaccination in four southern provinces to contain Covid-19


A health worker administers the Pfizer vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus to a high school student at Prachaniwet Secondary School in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK, Oct 15 (Bernama): Thailand’s Public Health Ministry is to ramp up vaccination in four southern provinces - Yala, Pattani Songkhla, and Narathiwat - to contain the surge in Covid-19 cases.

Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the ministry will to distribute 1 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to the four provinces this month.

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