Thailand will stop using the Covid-19 vaccine of China's Sinovac when its current stock finishes.
Thailand used over 31.5 million Sinovac doses since February, starting with two doses to frontline workers, high-risk groups and residents of Phuket.
In July, Thailand started inoculating people with Sinovac as a first dose followed by AstraZeneca. Thailand was the first country to combine Chinese and Western shots.
"We expect to have distributed all Sinovac doses this week," said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, the Department of Disease Control director-general, adding the programme will switch to combining the AstraZeneca vaccine with Pfizer and BioNTech.
Thailand has so far vaccinated 36% of the estimated 72 million people who live in the country and hopes to reach 70% by year-end.
