The Minister of Public Health revealed that the “Pfizer Child” vaccine, aged 5-11 years, will arrive in Thailand on January 26, 3 million doses, starting at the first children’s hospital, targeting people who are sick with congenital diseases first.
Today (19 Jan) Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health talk about vaccine progress “Child Pfizer” aged 5-11 years that has been reported by Dr. Sophon Iamsirithavorn Deputy Director-General of the Department of Disease Control said
First batch of vaccines If nothing changes, it will arrive in Thailand on January 26, the amount of 3 million doses from the 10 million doses that have been pre-ordered. Then random samples will be sent to the Department of Medical Sciences to check the Lot Release, which will take approximately 2-3 days to know the results.
Mr. Anutin also said that Through such a process, there will be a distribution. “Children’s Pfizer” to inject children, starting at the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health (Children’s Hospital) before being the first to move forward with injections for children with congenital diseases.
Which is considered a high-risk group of children before spreading “Pfizer Children” to various hospitals, which have coordinated with the Ministry of Education to vaccinate children Therefore, we ask for the cooperation of parents to bring their children to be vaccinated for safety.
On the side of Dr. Sophon Iamsirithavorn Deputy Director of Disease Control said that for vaccination The pediatric “Pfizer” will begin on Jan. 31, because once the vaccine arrives on Jan. 26, it will take some time to verify. and distribute vaccines to various hospitals
The vaccine “Pfizer Children” will be available in 1 bottle containing 1.3 ml and when mixed with saline will have a size of 2.6 ml, making 1 bottle of vaccine can be injected to 10 children, 0.2 ml each. Longer treatment after saline solution at 2-8°C for 10 weeks from 4 weeks.
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