Vaccine hesitancy grows ahead of Thailand's mass inoculation rollout

Health workers administer shots of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for airline employees at Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand on May 25, 2021. - AP

BANGKOK (Reuters): Vaccine hesitancy has risen sharply in Thailand opinion polls show, just weeks away from the start of a mass inoculation programme and as the country fights its deadliest Covid-19 outbreak.

Reasons for the rise in vaccine hesitancy were unclear in the polls, but there are widespread complaints at government disorganisation, delays in getting vaccines and reliance on Sinovac and locally made AstraZeneca doses.