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The Covid-19 vaccination will be delivered through three channels with on-site registration rather than walk-in services, government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said. It concerns the Mor prom app, registration at vaccination points and the "strategic" distribution of vaccines to target groups
Prime Minister Prayut emphasizes that the vaccination campaign that will be launched by the government from June 1 will be through the mentioned three channels, Anucha said. About 7,4 million people, elderly or patients with chronic diseases, have already registered on the Mor Prom platform, including 800.000 in Bangkok. The general public under the age of 60 can register from May 31.
According to Anucha, on-site registration will replace the previously reported walk-in services to avoid any misunderstandings, some people thought they could just drop by for a shot, but that is not the case. “Instead, people can drop by vaccination points, register and make an appointment. This is just an option. In Bangkok, 231 vaccination points are at medical facilities and 25 at hospitals,” he said. Four locations – Central department store in Lat Phrao, Samyan Mitrtown, The Mall Bangkapi shopping mall and Big C Bang Bon superstore – have already started a trial for this setup.
Anucha says the third channel includes the "strategic" distribution of vaccines to target groups or people with special needs, such as medical workers, teachers and those in the service industry.
The Vaccination and Health Center in Bangrak, which will administer Sinovac's vaccine, plans to vaccinate 180 people per day. In the first phase, the vaccine will mainly be given to 100.000 Chinese in Thailand and Thai students planning to study abroad. This will later be extended to foreigners.
The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) received 1,5 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China's Sinovac Co on Thursday. The GPO has received eight batches of the Sinovac vaccine since February, for a total of 6 million doses. Sinovac will deliver another 3 million doses in June. The vaccines are donated to Thailand by the Chinese government.
Source: Bangkok Post
According to this message, it will be the turn of foreigners LATER. Earlier on this blog it was argued for an active injection policy here in Thailand from the home countries, so for the foreigners. For example, get an injection at the embassies or something. According to many, also on this blog, the Thai government would see this as an infringement and a loss of face.
Indeed, today I read on yahoo news that the Chinese living in Thailand are being vaccinated through a worldwide organization set up by China. So, for example, the Chinese in Bankok are helped by Chinese doctors and nurses. Now that's what I call helping your own people!!
So it is possible. You just have to make a big mouth about the Thai government and just do it. Unfortunately, the western countries (embassies) excel by talking a lot and doing little and especially by emphasizing the impossibilities. Make a fist together with other EU countries and, if necessary, take the USA with you. Power makes power and they know that here.
What a strange reaction. First of all, there is no country that vaccinates compatriots through embassies. Logical, because they do not have the knowledge and skills in-house either. The fact that China has set up an organization to vaccinate compatriots does not need any applause. Vaccination in China itself is extremely slow and these kinds of actions therefore seem more like publicity stunts. Apart from the fact that you then get the significantly less effective Sinovac instead of Pfizer/Moderna injected into your arm. Vaccination is slow in many countries, including the Netherlands until recently.
And put on a big mouth and make a fist, so as Dutch people towards Thai society?...why then? If you live there, you have consciously become part of it, haven't you? Why should you 'demand' priority over the Thai residents?
I think it has been suggested by the necessary people that the embassy can or could have played a coordinating role in the rollout of vaccinations for their compatriots. No one has said that the ambassador or his staff should do the vaccinations themselves. They don't have the knowledge for that, that's right. That knowledge can be hired. They also have the space to receive vaccinations and know the names and addresses of most foreigners. If not, this can be asked and those who are not yet known to them and who want to be vaccinated will respond themselves. Subsequently, experts will have to be called in who can and are allowed to administer the vaccines. A network will have to be set up for this and that requires a lot of work, but together and with the will and willingness to help our compatriots in these precarious times, this would have been possible. Now it is too late and most of us will get our injection within two months from now. I myself have already registered with the memorial hospital in Pattaya. It is expected that there will be an appointment in July and invitations will be sent out.
If you live in Thailand and are part of that society, you can expect not to be treated as a second-class person and maybe two months later to get the vaccine. So not the Thai first, but in groups of importance (necessity) are handled. Responding to this is a proper and natural response. It is not about demanding priority over the Thai residents, nobody wants that, but about equal rights.