Thailand donates children-formula Covid-19 vaccines to Myanmar
Thailand has donated 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine for children to Myanmar at the request of its health minister.
Pfizer’s mRNA paediatric formulation, which comes in orange-cap vials, is meant for children aged five to 11. Each 1.3ml vial of the vaccine is diluted with the same amount of saline. Children are given a 0.2ml dose, each containing 10 micrograms of the vaccine.
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday that, “This is part of continued collaboration between the Thai Public Health Ministry and neighbouring countries and Asean member states in coping with Covid-19".
In August, Myanmar’s Minister for Health Dr Thet Khaing Win voiced his country’s need for Covid-19 vaccines to help protect children from Covid-19. He was in Thailand to attend a ceremony to open the Secretariat of the Asean Centre for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases (ACPHEED).
Thailand offered to share some of its Pfizer’s mRNA paediatric formulation stocks.
The donation, approved by the Cabinet and made through the Myanmar Red Cross Society, involved cooperation between the Foreign Ministry, the Thai Embassy in Myanmar, the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Disease Control, and Zuellig Pharma Co Ltd, the importer of Pfizer vaccines.
Earlier, Thailand had donated 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to its western neighbour.
