Over 60% of Thailand's Phuket residents given Covid-19 vaccine as island ready to reopen

BANGKOK, June 18 (Xinhua): About 63 per cent of residents in southern Thailand's Phuket island have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine as the island is scheduled to reopen on July 1, said a senior government official on Friday.

Disease Control Department Director General Opas Kankawinphong confirmed in a press briefing that 346, 855 residents of Phuket have been so far given the first shot of Covid-19 vaccine, accounting for 63.3 percent of the island province's population.