Thailand starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign

FILE PHOTO: A container with Sinovac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines is unloaded from a plane at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand February 24, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand kicked off its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday, with cabinet ministers, health officials and medical professionals among the first in the queue to receive vaccinations.

The first doses of vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, were given to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is also the health minister, among others at an infectious diseases institute on the outskirts of Bangkok.