Thailand Starts COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Thailand Starts COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
A health worker receives the Sinovac coronavirus disease vaccine at the Samut Sakhon hospital in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, on Feb. 28, 2021. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
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BANGKOK—Thailand kicked off its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday, with cabinet ministers, health officials and medical professionals among the first in the queue to receive vaccinations.

The first doses of vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, were given to Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is also the health minister, among others at an infectious diseases institute on the outskirts of Bangkok.