Thailand to start Covid-19 vaccinations in 10 provinces with China's Sinovac vaccine

A dancer carries a dragon head on the crowded main street in Chinatown on the first day of the Lunar New Year in Bangkok on February 12, 2021. - AFP

BANGKOK, Feb. 12 (Xinhua): People in 10 provinces of Thailand will be vaccinated with Chinese-made Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine, a high-level government official has said.

Those who will receive the jabs from later this month until April include medical and public health personnel, those with some chronic illnesses and those aged above 60, according to Sophon Mekhathon, assistant to the public health minister and head of the government's subcommittee in charge of the anti-coronavirus vaccination.