The government now plans to buy almost 3 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine dosages for young children, Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) speaker Taweesilp Visanuyothin mentioned yesterday.
Dr Taweesilp stated the government is adjusting its vaccine purchase contract with Pfizer to obtain 2 . 9 million doses designed for children aged six months to four many years. The contractual change would be a swap pertaining to 3. 5 million doses that Pfizer had yet to deliver for people aged 12 years and more than as earlier caught. The remaining 590, 000 doses would be intended for vaccines for kids aged 5-11 years, Dr Taweesilp said.
However , he added, the fda has yet to approve administering the Pfizer vaccine to children aged 6 months to four years. If the FDA does not approve such use, then the 3. five million doses below contract would be to get children aged 5-11 years, he stated.
Meant for parents who favored an inactivated malware vaccine to other kinds of Covid-19 vaccine, Doctor Taweesilp said, the federal government Pharmaceutical Organisation got already sought FDA approval to administer the Sinovac vaccine with regard to children under six years. A decision is usually expected next month.
The country still had 3. thirty six million Sinovac dosages in stock, he said.
As of yesterday, over 142 million Covid-19 vaccines have been provided, including 57. two million shots for the first dose, 53. 6 million pictures for the second dosage, 26. 2 million shots for the 3rd dose and five. 2 million photos for the fourth dose, according to the Public Wellness Ministry. The top 5 vaccines are AstraZeneca (48. 5 mil shots), followed by Pfizer (45. 1 million shots), Sinovac (26. 5 million shots) and Sinopharm (14. 9 million shots).
The nation registered 27 a lot more Covid-19 fatalities plus 2, 110 new cases admitted to hospitals yesterday. All the new cases had been local.
On Thursday, two, 028 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital after coping with the coronavirus whilst 20, 048 others were receiving treatment (up from nineteen, 993 the previous day).
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been four, 630, 310 Covid-19 cases, including 2, 406, 875 this season, with 4, 578, 291 complete recoveries to date. The accumulated death toll stands at 31, 971 since the beginning of the pandemic.