BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and members of his Cabinet canceled plans to obtain AstraZeneca vaccine shots on Friday (Mar 12) after the country postponed their use due to fears of blood clots in some European countries, according to a health official. After a suspension of inoculations using the vaccine in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, Prasit Watanapa, dean of …

The City of Manila shared that they released a P38.4 million down payment to AstraZeneca for 800,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. In view of this, Manila PIO said the sum was a 20 percent down payment taken from the budget of the city. The coronavirus vaccine from the Swedish-British drug maker has an efficacy of 70 percent and requires …

The Philippine government has expressed trust in the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, even though some critics cast doubt on it over concerns about its reported success rate. They are confident that the AstraZeneca vaccine is being developed, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday when the Philippine government signed the first procurement agreement for a coronavirus vaccine, a tripartite …

Indonesia is trying to obtain AstraZeneca vaccines as part of its strategy to acquire overseas doses while rising local production to inoculate its more than 270 million population. In an interview with Yvonne Man of Bloomberg Television, the country’s international and state-owned enterprise ministries are in talks with the UK-based business, Research and Technology Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, who leads the …