In a well-timed cargo, 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived in Bangkok today, a donation from Japan. Today is the anniversary of a milestone for Thailand and Japan, as September 26 is the anniversary of the unique institution of diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations.
Today marks the 134th anniversary of the connection between Japan and Thailand, a perfect opportunity for a beneficiant donation from Japan of the AstraZeneca vaccines.
This is the third donation the Japanese authorities has made to help Thailand in its battle towards the Covid-19 pandemic. In July, Japanese officers made an enormous donation of 1.05 million AstraZeneca vaccines that they had requested be used to inoculate elderly people which are at high threat in Bangkok.
At the start of this month, Japan made a second donation of 300,000 vaccines on September eight, together with 775 oxygen concentrators needed to take care of extreme Covid-19 infections. They also donated tools to help the cold chain system that keeps vaccines at very low temperatures during storage, transportation, and distribution.
Their donation of one other 300,000 vaccines that arrived today brings the entire to 1.sixty five million AstraZeneca vaccines that the Japanese authorities has donated to assist Thailand inoculate its residents to guard from Covid-19 over the previous few months.
Today’s donation is part of a string of vaccine donations from Japan to other Southeast Asian nations with 500,000 doses to Taiwan, four hundred,000 doses for Vietnam, 300,000 for Thailand, and 100,00 doses for Brunei. In whole, Japan has donated over 23 million vaccines of locally produced AstraZeneca.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand expressed due to its companions on its Twitter account.
“ https://solarcellexperts.com/ #Japan for granting third lot of 300,000-dose #AstraZeneca vaccines which arrived in Thailand today as to commemorate the 134th Anniversary of 🇹🇭🇯🇵 Diplomatic Relations. In total, Japan has already granted 1.65m-dose vaccines to 🇹🇭.” [sic]
