Thailand has administered 45.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines as 21.4 per cent of the country now fully vaccinated

Schoolchildren and their parents wait in an observation area after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination drive for 12 to 18 year olds with preexisting conditions ahead of the re-opening of schools, at the Vachira Haospital in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday, Sept 21, 2021. As the pandemic grinds through its second year, with Thailand suffering a brutal hit from the delta variant, the government's "living with Covid-19" strategy aims to revive the economy -- while concurrently limiting fallout from the virus. - Bloomberg

BANGKOK, Sept 21 (Xinhua): As of Monday (Sept 20), Thailand has administered 45.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with 21.4 percent of the country's nearly 70-million population having been fully vaccinated, according to the CCSA.

The capital city planned to reopen to fully-vaccinated foreign visitors after about 70 pe rcent of the city's residents have been fully vaccinated, while the numbers of new infections and hospitalizations being reduced to a manageable level, according to a statement issued by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Tuesday.