Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given emergency use authorisation for the Covid-19 vaccine of Sinovac Biotech, paving the way for the country’s first coronavirus inoculations.
The authorisation comes just days before Thailand is set to receive the first 200,000 of two million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac, its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, which will be given primarily to health workers.
“The FDA has registered Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine for conditional emergency use, effective February 22,” FDA deputy secretary-general Surachok Tangwiwat told Reuters.
