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30 minutes ago, orientalist said:

I suspect the Ministry is trying to assure Thais that 1-2 million Burmese "expats" (i.e. migrant labourers) won't get vaccinated before them

From other reports, the Ministry is referring to the foreigners who managed to register on MorPromt 

53 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

many states were blocking vaccine tourism by giving COVID-19 vaccines to local residents only

Source, sir?

Youtube has at-home workouts of varying difficulty.

10 minutes of some of the harder ones can leave you breathless.

Stay safe. 

47 minutes ago, ukrules said:

It would be a logical step for embassies to strike back against this kind of treatment.

In their infinite wisdom, the Chinese pre-empted this. They requested the Thai government to vaccinate their citizens.

 

This cannot be overstated, the authorities should focus entirely on public health and not politics.

If they want to avoid bad looks, they should have cleaned up their act and followed scientific guidelines scrupulously. No scandals, no flip-flops.

"The vaccines right now are only reserved for Thai people who are now at a high-risk level or living in the severe outbreak areas," said spokesman Rungrueng Kitphati.

Really hope that she meant a specific phase in the rollout and it was a misunderstanding.

Or else, it is really SICKENING. To exclude high-risk foreign resident for a few political points!

I hope they contain those clusters.

6 hours ago, dave captain said:

I M flying from Canada

I was told if you transit through BKK international-to-domestic (not international transfers) you need to serve out quarantine in BKK.

Would appreciate confirmation or correction.

All I found was https://www.caat.or.th/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Infographic-Guidelines-for-International-Flight-Transit-Transfer-1.pdf    Under "more information" there's a phone and an email contact method.

Don't be surprised at the initial confusion. It happens.

I wish the Thai-bashing can be dialed down a bit.

If you're coming from a Red Zone, a 72-hour negative test is enough [https://www.facebook.com/phuketanticovid19/posts/289460116042505]

No mention of the newly introduced Deep Red Zone.

The plans look effective on paper. I fear for the implementation.

22 minutes ago, Brierley said:

Any ideas anyone?

Wait a couple of days. The policy might change and include higher risk foreign residents in the first phase, as announced.

2 minutes ago, lks7689 said:

We have never lived as a united world

In an ideal united world we'd all have done a worldwide 14 day lockdown, contact tracing and quarantine, and beat SARS-CoV-2 within a month.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

50.63% said the eating pad krapao (stir fried holy basil) would protect them against COVID-19

Side effects include:

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1 minute ago, Sheryl said:

 

I am not aware of any country in Asean that has purchased Pfizer.

Singapore does have it.

Studies have concluded that this variant is tougher on all vaccines, not just the China vaccines.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3130355/coronavirus-sinovac-vaccine-gives-70-cent-less

5 minutes ago, starky said:

were not all the medical staff in these hospitals wearing the correct ppe

They will now. Medical professionals are human too.

1 hour ago, connda said:

Have they set up roadblocks on Highway 11 at the HW11/HW121 interchange?

In the past week there weren't roadblocks or checkpoints.

They might put some up now.

3 minutes ago, LawrenceN said:

So today Mrs. Lawrence went over to do the same. They noticed the last name and address, and told her that I was registered in error. They had a meeting yesterday after I was there and were told we foreigners are not eligible.

Give them a couple of days. The policy could revert.

So you blame the restrictions for the economic damage, but won't credit the same restrictions for keeping a lid on infections and deaths?