Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Thailand remains steadfast in its policy of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines to suppress the surge in Covid-19 infections. The White Elephant Country intends to inject the AstraZeneca vaccine as a booster to people who were previously injected with the Sinovac vaccine, within the span of six weeks.
Thailand’s head of virology Yong Poovorawan said it was possible to combine an inactivated virus vaccine, Sinovac, with a vector virus vaccine, AstraZeneca. “We cannot wait 12 weeks (for a booster) in this outbreak, where the disease is spreading rapidly,” he said.
However, he did not deny that in the future, there might be a better way. Including the discovery of a new vaccine that is more potent.
Previous, World Health Organization (WHO) expressed concern about the trend of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines in several countries. The UN organization warned that the method should require further research.
At a press conference, WHO Chief Researcher Soumaya Swaminathan even called mixing up different vaccines a dangerous trend.
“So it’s a dangerous trend when people start mixing different vaccines where it still has limited evidence and data,” he said at a WHO press conference on Monday (13/7/2021).
Furthermore, he also warned that this method has the potential to cause something very serious when people start thinking for themselves about what vaccine they will take in the next dose.
“It will be a chaotic situation when people start thinking about which vaccine they will take in the second, third or even fourth dose,” he said.
As of Tuesday at 16.00, Thailand recorded there were 8,685 new daily cases with 56 deaths. This is up from the previous day where daily Covid-19 cases were recorded at 8,659 although deaths were down from 80.
In total, Covid-19 in Thailand has infected 345,027 people with 2,791 deaths. Active cases now number 90,578.
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