Petey11

I think even if they do open it'll be SHA hotels on return, sealed routes and still the 7 day restrictions on provincial travel and covid tests. I'm waiting to return but want to go straight to GF place and stay. If you say your open your open. With restrictions etc it's not really "open for tourism". They need to stop with the BS and say it how it is in my opinion.

And UK counting reported ATK results I believe. 6763 people in hospital in UK versus 43299 in Thailand. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

Don't think they'll ever achieve the testing bit, haven't really managed it over the past.

I'd go with that, same as one of the Oxford professors stated. He said herd immunity not possible, should be talking about herd protection.

Personally been fully vaccinated if I get covid I have done all I can to prevent it affecting me badly. I'd be more worried about getting dragged off to an isolation centre or hospital if I was asymptomatic or only mild illness.

I also noticed Chonburi stopped listing the number of tests carried out now too. They used to report contact and proactive numbers.

Well if Thailand can regularly jab 800k+ and coincidentally two days before it drops to 600k a day, in my opinion do the math. If you are so sure of all figures published can you explain how to go from 1 million plus jabs to 100k. It's my opinion that vaccination availability was set to ensure the 1million target was met.

And I'm sure 300-400k of them could have been given a shot a few days earlier.

One word, grandstanding by the government. Look how good we are, we done 1 million vacs in a day. They went from 800k to next 2 days at 600k to 1 million down to 100k. All about the look instead of getting jabs into people's arms as soon as possible. If you have the vacs in stock, get them given, don't hoard them and save them up just to look good on one day. Your dealing with saving lives, not a playground boasting game.

Or they could of vaccinated 800k each day for the last couple of days instead of 600k and possibly avoided the scenes shown at Katang Hospital. Anutin and Co. putting their grandstanding before people's health.

Letting that happen is just madness. Officials who organize these vaccination centres should be ashamed of themselves. The CCSA preaching social distancing and personal responsibility and then instances like this are allowed to happen.

You can see why reported cases are dropping. "We've found another cluster sir! Ok, lock em in and stop the tests unless they get really ill." I think in the last week they have gone from 72 clusters in establishments to 77 clusters.

If the rise in infections is in labour camps and fishing boat crews, as they are claiming, and not in general community,why would they worry about letting people have a wine or beer with their meal?

And where did the first worker get infected. The island or mainland?

Good article, sort of journalism the Thai government doesn't want released, the truth of the treatment of Asian migrant workers and refugee's.

Totally agree, all about the money, mainly benefitting the larger chain hotels and tourist attractions. How with all the red tape, staying in certain designated hotels, only visiting designated attractions, is it going to benefit the many street food vendors, small street side eateries, bars, independent small restaurants, etc. Money for the big boys. Ok, it will benefit the staff of those larger places but not the mass of those who earn a living from the tourism. I for one think I will return when I can stay in my girlfriends condo and spend time with her, not restricted to certain areas.

This is where mass regular testing, as encouraged in the UK, with ATK comes into play in suppressing the spread of the virus. Maybe the government might change tact now it's come close to home, so to speak.

Here we go again, math Thai officials way, 1 jab =vaccinated. No,no,no, 2jab=vaccinated. Back to lessons I'm afraid.

Eating/restaurants I believe, not bars or live music bars. Always going to be demand for restaurants, especially good value ones. Looks like one the areas in tree town with communal table area and multiple food stalls. Good value and like eating at them myself when in Thailand. Good to see they are busy.

Tend to agree with you. I was in Thailand January and first week of February 2020, visited Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Pattaya as well as a trip to Laos. Last week of January came down with a persistent light cough and so did my girlfriend. Put it down to been in the highly polluted air of Bangkok and Chiang Mai for a few weeks. Flew back to UK where they weren't even worried about covid at beginning of February. Cough passed in a few weeks but couple of weeks later felt really lethargic, no motivation to do much, then noticed getting out of breath easily. Thought nothing of it but looking back and seeing how friends were after having covid I could quite possibly have had it then, picked up in Thailand.

So for the year 2021 so far an 8% positive rate. Going by the WHO 5% threshold for adequate testing more needed as Dander would say.

So the WHO rhetoric of 'test,test,test' , and if your getting above 3-5% positivity from test you need to test more, is totally wrong then? Idea of random/mass testing is to spot an outbreak before it gets out of hand. By the time people are turning up at hospitals the outbreak/cluster is well established as it could have been ongoing for a week or more, plenty of time for many to get infected from one case.

Welcome to Pattaya, oops my bad, I mean an enclave of North Korea. No fratanising with the locals and chaperone required at all times.

They obviously think the pandemics over by dissolving the CCSA, or are the CCSA making too many noises behind the scenes and the PM doesn't like it?

Good yes, but have to see the small print, certain hotels only, sealed routes on tours. Will it benefit the average small restaurant or street food sellers? Well have to wait and see.