The soaring glass and steel Bang Sue Grand Station in Bangkok, is set to become south-east Asia’s largest railway terminal when it opens later this year. But this week it occupied a different role: as the launch pad for Thailand’s Covid-19 national vaccination rollout.
With khaki-clad government officials and lilac-uniformed medical staff milling around, Thai patients lined up to receive their pre-booked shots. Anutin Charnvirakul, minister of health, repeated the government’s vow to vaccinate at least 70 per cent of its roughly 70m residents before the end of the year.
