France will donate 1,000,200 doses of Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 to Thailand.
The donation will be formally presented to Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister by French Ambassador to Thailand, Thierry Mathou at the Public Health Ministry on March 13.
It comes in a context in which the World Health Organization (WHO) reminds that the pandemic is at a point transition and people must remain vigilant. Several thousand people around the world are still dying from Covid every month.
With this new donation, France will have offered more than 4.2 million doses of vaccines to Thailand since March 2022.
It illustrates the friendship between two countries and determination to strengthen cooperation in the spirit of the “Roadmap for France-Thailand bilateral relations 2022-2024.
Via the COVAX initiative or donations made within the framework of bilateral agreements, France has donated more than 90 million doses of vaccines since the start of the pandemic.
Beyond Covid, the two countries will continue to work closely within the framework of One Health approach (notably with Mahidol University in the field of zoonoses – diseases that transmit between animals and humans) and the PRESODE Preventing ZOonotic Disease Emergence (PREZODE) initiative which Thailand joined during President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Bangkok in November last year. (TNA)
