AstraZeneca starts delivering Thailand-made jabs amid production schedule fears

A worker loads AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines produced by Siam Bioscience factory in Nonthaburi province, Thailand (Siam Bioscience via AP)

AstraZeneca’s partner in Thailand has started its first deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines after concerns it was behind on its production schedules for the country and parts of south-east Asia.

Siam Bioscience said the first locally produced AstraZeneca doses were delivered to Thailand’s Ministry of Health ahead of the June 7 start of the country’s official mass vaccination programme. It did not say how many were delivered.