Residents of shantytowns in Bangkok to receive Covid vaccine

The government is accelerating the vaccination process among shantytown dwellers in Bangkok’s Klong Toey district following an outbreak of Covid-19. Thousands of people live in very close quarters within the slums and travel across the city and to neighboring provinces for work. Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang pointed out that the government will speed up the process of detecting infected people in vulnerable areas such as slums, and then test people who live in housing units in the rest of the capital.