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He said the company had seen the vaccination plan but had said nothing." Is that apart from you will only get 30% and join COVAX, it couldn’t have been much plainer, does he expect AZ to do the Maths for him, Donkey. The Thai Government were clearly under the wrong impression that AZ was a Thai company who could be bullied, haha don’t fuck with us Brits especially when it comes to contracts, you will get burned.

Hi, "Sinovac also costs at least four times more than AstraZeneca." I think we can all guess where a big part of that expense is for, and why the Thai gov prefers to deal with China instead of the West. Sanuk!

Thanks Kong, the above post is information, that confirms two other strands, I've been hearing about. I stress that I have no way confirming, that which I post below, other than to note, that though, it's second hand info, via Laos, MLG does have family in government positions, and though this doesn't make the information reliable, it is a different source at least. so "Siam Bioscience Co Ltd, a company owned by His Majesty the King, was retooled to manufacture the vaccine. The government subsidised 600 million baht for the upgrade and officials later said the company would pay back the sum in the form of shots." I hear that the usual big money boys (ahem Lurch), have cornered the market in the production and supply of the vaccines in Thailand and any Baht, that flow with that. I am also given to understand that the usual, disregard and disdain that the rich have for the poor, has led to a vast underestimate of the number of vaccines required and that prices have been determined by, the likely size of the budget that can be accessed, rather than the number of people that require the vaccines. "Thailand is one of a handful of developing countries that have not joined Covax." Of course. "In any case, the cabinet approved the budget for it on March 5 and it took two months after that to sign the agreement." Fighting in the queue for kickbacks. "Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha also admitted on Thursday that AstraZeneca would not be able to deliver all 61 million doses under the two contracts until May next year. The original deadline was supposed to have been December. Contrary to what people had assumed earlier, he said 10 million doses a month was in fact Thailand’s capacity to vaccinate people, not the number of vaccines it would get from AstraZeneca. He said the company had seen the vaccination plan but had said nothing." Usual Thai logic - what I planned was wrong, I said it was right - someone else didn't tell me it was wrong - so it's someone else's fault

Leaked correspondence between the Thai government and the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca has raised a big question about the former’s commitment to administer 100 million doses by the end of this year. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2150423/fate-of-100m-dose-vaccination-hangs-in-the-air The letter linked in the article makes interesting reading. Also from the article Sinovac, which is the most readily available, cannot effectively shield against the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Sinovac also costs at least four times more than AstraZeneca.