Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said one 6.5 millilitre vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine is split into 12 doses of 0.5ml each.

&ldquo;Since the demand for Covid-19 vaccines is high, the automatic dispenser was developed to use each vial effectively,&rdquo; he said.

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He explained that the dispenser will fill 12 syringes equally within four minutes, which will increase the number of doses administered by 20 per cent.

&ldquo;We will discuss the use of this machine in detail later,&rdquo; he added.

New dispensing machine will boost number of jabs delivered daily by 20%

Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Science, in collaboration with private agencies, has developed an automatic vaccine dispenser in a bid to relieve the burden on medics.