Thailand has agreed to manufacture and supply AstraZeneca Plc’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine in the southeast Asian country and other nations in the region, Reuters quoted the British and Thai governments said on Monday.

The announcement by the British embassy in Bangkok did not specify how many doses of the vaccine candidate, AZD1222, would be distributed in Thailand. It also did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.

AstraZeneca is providing the potential vaccine, developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, at no profit during the pandemic and would work with Siam Bioscience to set up manufacturing facilities, Thailand's Ministry of Public Health said in a separate statement.