Dr. Surachok Tangwiwat, Deputy Secretary-General of the Food and Drug Administration or FDA, discusses the progress of the COVID-19 vaccine registration in Thailand, and has now requested to register with the FDA. 3 companies, Astrazeneca, are registered. And it is waiting for Astrazeneca to send the vaccine to the FDA and then bring it to the Department of Medical Sciences to check its effectiveness before using it in the risk group
For the Sinovac company The FDA has examined more than 50% of the documents, now it is still waiting for some documents from the company to be sent in for each academic side to consider.
For the team of Johnson & Jonson, which belongs to America, has been requested for registration. It is in the early stages of registration with the Thai FDA and there will be academics Experts jointly consider In terms of effectiveness, safety and quality, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is technology similar to Astrazeneca.
Sopon Mekthon, MD, chairman of the Sub-Committee for the Administration of Vaccine Management for Coronavirus 2019 or COVID-19, said AstraZeneca’s vaccine delivery plan will gradually arrive by February, the first lot of 50,000 doses, but in Problems that the European Union (EU) restricts exports of COVID-19 vaccine. Causing the need to be extended But if the vaccine arrives, it’s ready to take action.
First lot shipping issues have to wait for how AstraZeneca will take action. The Vaccine Procurement Working Group has been following this closely. If the first lot of vaccination will come in February Must actually postpone But the system that we have prepared Ready When the vaccine comes in The first two groups were: 1. Medical personnel involved in COVID-19 and 2. Other personnel. COVID-19 outpost officers such as volunteers, military and police, the numbers of these two groups are already more than 50,000, the provincial health office (STO) responsible for a voluntary survey and reports the numbers back. Before February 4
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