About 2,500 Pattaya civil servants and their families were vaccinated to protect them during the coming flu season.
Permanent Secretary Pakorn Sukhonthachat presided over the Sept. 24 inoculation event at city hall.
Receiving the injections against influenza were city hall workers, children and high-risk family members, such as the elderly.
Nurses were able to inoculate more than 2,500 civil servants and their families during an inoculation event at city hall.
Disease prevention and control research shows 700,000-900,000 people contract the flue each year with 12,575-75,801 suffering other complications such as pneumonia. Causalities from complications of other infections have increased by 2.5 percent this year, causing economic damage of up to 2.4 billion baht.
The city flu shots became available Sept 18 and the program will expand to all city schools through the end of October.
