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Bangkok - AstraZeneca Thailand, in collaboration with Plan International Thailand, continues Young Health Programme (YHP) into its third year with the “World No Tobacco Day 2022” event. Conducted for more than 1,500 students at 12 primary and secondary schools in Greater Bangkok between May 23 and June 7, 2022, the event aims to raise awareness and ensure that young people in Thailand have increased knowledge about risk behaviours to prevent smoking-related disease.

The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has released a list of the top 10 fake news reports that won the most shares and likes between May 20 and 26.

Data from 79 real-world studies show that AstraZeneca and mRNA Covid-19 vaccines provide equal protection against hospitalisation and death after two doses, several experts said on Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration of Thailand has approved an extension to the shelf-life for Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca to nine months with immediate effect.

AstraZeneca's Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody combination, has been granted marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19 in a broad population of adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg.

New preclinical authentic “live” virus data from Washington University’s School of Medicine demonstrated that Evusheld injection (combination of tixagevimab and cilgavimab) is potent in neutralising the highly transmissible Omicron BA.2 subvariant. The data also showed that Evusheld is effective against BA.1 and BA.1.1 subvariants.

HÀ NỘI — A private hospital system in Việt Nam said on Thursday they are set to soon use AstraZeneca's Evusheld, a long-acting antibody combination (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), for the prevention of COVID-19 for the most at-risk groups of the population.

Police in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Guangdong province has detained 17 people after cracking down on a criminal gang suspected of medical insurance fraud.

Thailand will donate up to 3.5 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to six countries via the global COVAX initiative.

Expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday that people should get an mRNA vaccine booster dose instead of three doses of AstraZeneca.

The Ministry of Public Health is working on a plan for fully vaccinated people who have already received a booster shot of Covid-19 vaccine to keep their immunity high, especially against the Omicron variant, a news source said on Monday.

In a Facebook post on Saturday, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan said Chulalongkorn University's Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology is seeking volunteers who have already received two AstraZeneca jabs.