Why does Thailand keep lying about its COVID vaccine?
The Faculty of Medicine of Chualongkorn University now say it will test its COVID-19 vaccine in volunteers in either late April or early May after successful trial in monkeys last year.
Prof Dr Suttipong Wacharasindhu, director of Chulalongkorn Hospital, said the second jab of the mRNA-typed ChulaCov19 vaccine proved to make monkeys develop high immunity and have good health and therefore the faculty had confidence to try it in volunteers.
Chulalongkorn Hospital and the Chula Vaccine Research Center prepared places and personnel for trial in human.
They prioritized safety for public confidence in the trial progress, he said.
This news comes despite the hapless General Prayuth insisting last month (January) that the COVID vaccine would NEVER be tested on Thais – for their safety.
Earlier in January Prayuth also claimed two-million doses had been ordered from China and would start arriving in February.
That news was followed a week later with the announcement that Thailand would receive vaccines from the UK in January and that they would actually BEGIN rolling them out during February
Only days later Thai authorities announced that they had their own version of a vaccine and were ready to go.
A previous announcement confirmed that human trials would begin during November 2020
However, today they tell us that trials on human volunteers should start in either late April or early May.
The first phase of the human trial will cover 72 people at Chulalongkorn Hospital and the second phase will be done with 300-600 people at Chulalongkorn Hospital and Mahidol University, Prof Dr Suttipong said.
Thailand on Thursday reported 150 new coronavirus cases, raising the country's total cases to 25,111.
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