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“The opening for vaccination time booking will be open at 9am. Only HR [human resources] of each company can make the booking for foreigners,” he added.

“The booking system will open for two rounds. The first round is opening at 9am for businesses in the tourism industry and education, and the second round will be at 2pm for businesses in other industries,” Mr Pracha said just after 7am today.

“The documents needed to be presented to get injected are your passport, visa and your real work permit [sic]. We will have officers from Phuket Immigration and the Phuket Provincial Employment Office check the documents at the vaccination centres,” he added.

That is the most needlessly complicated procedure I could possibly imagine.

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Prime Minister had discussions with personnel and people receiving the vaccines. He asked everyone not to get excited as it could affect their blood pressure.

Thank you for that sage medical advice ????

This is a fully automated system - is there a reason it doesn't operate 24 hours a day?

1 hour ago, CANSIAM said:

I have read in the USA they are not concerned what citizenship you have but requesting where you work or an address where you are being vaccinated. Would this be an issue if I where to land in Seattle or SFO for jab ?

They might ask you to write down an in-state address on whatever form they use, but they won't ask for proof of that, and your hotel address should be fine. At the moment there is no shortage of vaccine, and the federal government is paying for all of it, so no one will particularly care who you are or where you're from.

The hesitancy isn't totally surprising, since the government has been loudly talking about the chance of side effects rather than educating people about how uncommon (and usually minor) those effects are.

A few months back, they said they would only give shots in hospitals with resuscitation facilities in case people collapsed after being vaccinated (that has since gone by the wayside). Then, they said that pricing on vaccines for private hospitals was still in flux because the hospitals had to meet with insurance companies to get policies covering treatment for side effects included in the price for the inoculation. A few days ago, they announced how much people would be paid if they lost a limb as a result of the shot, and how much their families would get if they died.

I'm sure someone thought this was all somehow reassuring, but they were wrong.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

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5 hours ago, webfact said:

After this they can do limited travel for the next three days according to the Samui Sealed Route Model.

If you're actually doing it, you can call it a "model". If all you're doing is imagining it, "fantasy" is a more accurate term.

21 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Bangkok, Krabi and Phang Nga- aim to achieve the target in July.

From another article today:

"[The Bangkok Governor] said, once all centers are up and running, they will be able to inoculate between 38,000 and 50,000 people a day which, when combined with the vaccination capacity of 126 hospitals in Bangkok, means seven to eight million people will receive their first doses of the vaccine by the end of August."

The two parks have been linked for well over ten years already - they're just talking about improvements to the link (since it was originally built with no access to what was then the cigarette factory, but will now be the forest park). But I'm glad the PM approves, that will bring great happiness to the people...

So the issue isn't that WHO hasn't approved the vaccine, it's just that Thailand is still "waiting for an official document". I see.

Just don't call it a walk-in facility.

18 hours ago, Henryford said:

So no bars until August

Quite possible, but that's actually a separate and distinct issue from the state of emergency - bars have gone through repeated periods of opening and closure since the decree was first implemented last year.

28 minutes ago, Freeduhdum said:

Does he live in Thailand? How would he know, is that what someone is telling him, some subjective or even politically motivated bias perhaps?

The "expert" lives in Thailand and is personally involved in Thailand's Covid response, at least according to the linked article:

"Professor Vip Viprakasit from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital at Mahidol University called the rising infections a "failure of the winner".

Speaking in his personal capacity, he noted that Thailand was hailed for its impressive performance during the first wave of the coronavirus last year.

"However we kind of relaxed in terms of self-control, not just in policy but on a country-wide scale," the professor, who volunteers with the government's Covid-19 effort, told The Straits Times. "People became relaxed on personal hygiene measures, like wearing masks, using alcohol, and checking in. They had parties."

17 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Curiously, AFAIK, there was no mention made at this afternoon's EN news briefing on the status of, or plans for, the promised EN language version of the Mor Prom app.

From another report:

"Meanwhile, prior to the announcement during the daily press briefing, Mr Natapanu tweeted to explain that a mobile app to facilitate registrations will now not be developed." 

13 hours ago, Disparate Dan said:

Walk-in vs on-site: wonder how these terms stack up in Thai (my Thai isn't up to it) because the news isn't - despite what some posters think - published solely for western eyes.

The Thai press is using the English words, though they distinguish between "on-site registration" and "walk-in vaccination", which is a bit clearer.

"รัฐบาลปรับ Walk in ฉีดวัคซีนโควิด เป็นลงทะเบียน On-site" https://news.thaipbs.or.th/content/304497

18 hours ago, cclub75 said:

last but not least : surface contamination... is real.

There is certainly a theoretical possibility for Covid to be spread via surface contamination, but hundreds of people contracting it from the same turnstile beggars belief. 

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is not only about getting vaccinated.

Ok, that's too deep for me this early in the morning.

The part I don't understand is where it says that "creditors requested for a condition that Thai Airways will operate under government support as before entering the rehabilitation process" - hasn't this already been ruled out?