Thailand: Nationwide Covid-19 vaccination begins as country logs another 70 new Covid-19 cases

A health wrker is giving the thumbs up after receiving the Sinovac coronavirus disease - Covid-19 vaccine at the Samut Sakhon hospital in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, on Sunday (Feb 28, 2021). - Reuters

BANGKOK, Feb. 28 (Xinhua): Thailand on Sunday started its Covid-19 vaccination roll-out, with the first shot, using China's Sinovac vaccine, going to Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha presided over the event at the country's infectious disease institute, where other officials, including deputy public health minister, agriculture minister, culture minister and deputy education minister, were also vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine.