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The price for two injections of the Moderna vaccine at private hospitals in Thailand will not exceed 3.000 baht.
Moderna is likely the first vaccine to be ordered by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) and may be offered in private hospitals.
Private hospitals have begun an inventory of the demand for the vaccine. As soon as they can make a reasonable estimate of this, the GPO will buy it.
During an online meeting, all member hospitals agreed to offer the package at the same price, including service costs, insurance and VAT.
Moderna is an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on vaccine technologies based on messenger RNA. Moderna's corona vaccine is therefore a so-called 'mRNA vaccine'. The vaccine contains a piece of genetic information: the mRNA. This mRNA ensures the production of a characteristic protein of the coronavirus: the spike protein. Pieces of this protein are recognized by the immune cells in the body. In response, the body produces antibodies.
Source: Bangkok Post
Last Friday, Prayuth announced that it would purchase 200 million vaccines. Moderna was not among them, see schedule at: https://www.thailandblog.nl/thailand/prayut-wil-tot-200-miljoen-covid-19-vaccindoses-aanschaffen/#comments
Nevertheless, Thailand has a deal with AstraZeneca to supply 60 million of this type via Siam Bioscience over the coming months, starting in July and ending in December. Let us assume for the sake of convenience that now with Moderna, after assessing the need for vaccines at private clinics, ALL farang in Thailand report to the clinics to help ensure that those vaccines can be purchased and vaccinated as quickly as possible.
Great news I'm going to get that shot right away,
but when can i go. I read every day
quite conflicting messages.
That can take at least 2 months.
Good news, would like to go to the Netherlands in September, don't want to travel without being vaccinated, think that's an unacceptable risk. A reasonable price, if they also have the travel documentation in order.
Well, let me hope, and not just for myself, that everything will be feasible within a reasonable period of time.
I would like to know how and at which hospital(s) you can register yourself.
Hopeful message.
I would like to know the names of some Private Clinics in the Province of Udon Thani, preferably including email address, to put my girlfriend on the waiting list.
Good news indeed. Other vaccines will undoubtedly follow.
But as Peter rightly reports, it may still take a few months, but I'm happy to wait for it.
Furthermore, the vaccination in a private hospital does indeed include insurance (100thb) against side effects during the 90 days after administration of the 2nd injection up to and including death………
I spontaneously got sick this morning from an employee of the local medical aid station here in the tambon.
She had a list of names with people from the tambon who were under treatment or supervision in the provincial hospital in the city.
I've been going to the cardiologist for a number of years for high blood pressure, sugar and related ailments, so I'm also on the conscious list.
Whether I wanted an anti covid 19 shot was the question, my answer of course yes please.
I'm curious about the next action, but it will take a while if I follow the news like this.
Here this morning a communication from the local representative of the sub-district regarding covid vaccination.
Anyone over 60 (including the farang) must go to the meeting place with an ID card. Everyone has been put on a list there (including the farang) who will be checked at the amphur to see whether you indeed live there, after which the vaccine will be delivered for vaccination.
They could not tell which vaccine it will be, but on the internet you can read on various pages that people over 60 will be vaccinated with Astra-Zenica. This is also not surprising because it is now also produced in Bangkok.
Logical is AstraZeneca, because that will be delivered en masse (soon). On other forums I read that the expats there expect to get Sinovac or Sputnik V (I consider the latter unlikely). In any case, the EU no longer needs AstraZeneca, so if AstraZeneca does get their production in order, those vaccines can go to Thailand, for example.
The reason that the EU no longer needs AstraZeneca is the unreliability of delivery by AZ. And that is mainly due to the difficulties that AZ had / has in the production of the vaccine. That seems to be a bit more complicated than they had foreseen. I hope for everyone in Thailand that those problems don't happen again. in Thailand, the distribution of vaccines has also largely (as elsewhere) become a political game of promises and assumptions and especially setbacks and only a few windfalls (e.g. that Pfizer and Moderna deliver more than expected and those vaccines are not true Thailand at stake).
The Thai vaccination program is quite ambitious and means that a lot of shots have to be done before the end of 2021. Everyone over the age of 18, so just counting 50 million people for the sake of convenience. Times 2 pricks. That's 100 million. But even with 80 million vaccinations, that seems like a very large logistical operation.
Think that whole thing about the vaccination is just one big circus, in NL and in TH.
Everyone wants to say something and decide and consider themselves important.
I'm not a fan of what's happening in the US, but happened to see a piece on the news last week how they vaccinate there. Just on the corner of the street and whoever wants to can join. Some places will get you a beer, others a snack, and others even $100.
The result is that many get vaccinated without much hassle.
I already checked with some private hospitals in Chiang mai, but they don't register there. So I wonder where you should be for a vacvination registration
I registered in Chiangmai RAM. So it is possible.
I checked this yesterday by email and they said it was not possible. Did you personally do this?
I went by in person. In addition, I am a patient in the pulmonary department. So that helps too.
i am on the list with the Aries, registered via phone call.
My friend registered today at Changmai Ram Hospital for the Phizer and Moderna vaccine, they expected it in June or July.
I already did that on 01_03,_2021.
They also told her that they will not order the Astra and Sinovac.
The Ram also has a Facebook page, which TZT will also be on.
Hans van Mourik
Just asked my girlfriend about the Facebook page of the Changmai Ram Hospital, because it is in Thai.
They told me that they have to request the vaccines from the government, but want to know in advance how much.
Hans van Mourik
“Moderna is likely to be the first vaccine ordered by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO).”
Well hurry up then.