Thai hospital tycoon sticks to guns on vaccine claims


Dr Boon Vanasin insists a deal was in the works through a government agency. - Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand’s Thonburi Healthcare Group Pcl (THG) doubled down on its outspoken chairman's claim to be buying Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines on Friday (July 16), helping its share price rise despite denials by both drugmakers.

Dr Boon Vanasin's claim that his group, a more than US$800 million private medicine empire, was close to signing a deal for 20 million Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines to import to Thailand was swiftly denied on Thursday by both companies, one day after a government agency filed a defamation suit against Boon, 82.

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