100 million doses of vaccines are needed to generate herd immunity in Thailand
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Photo: Kerstin & Paul Rockstein / BioNTech / CC-BY-SA 3.0 (DE).
Experts estimate that herd immunity would require vaccination of over 70% of the country’s population, or 50 million people, in order to generate herd immunity, so that the country can return to normality.
In his Facebook post on Friday, Dr. Yong, an virology expert at Chulalongkorn University, said that, to inoculate 50 million people, including children, with two doses each, Thailand would have to procure about 100 million doses of vaccines or, if children are not included, 85 million doses will be needed.
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By Thai PBS World
