Thailand to produce AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine ‘in first half of 2021’


Thailand's Disease Control Department director-general Opas Karnkawinpong. - The Nation

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine should be available in Thailand in the first half of 2021, under a technology-transfer deal signed with the Thai government.

Siam Bioscience will receive the technology for the vaccine, which was developed by a team at Oxford University.

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