edwinchester

Yep, and doubly inconvenience them too by cancelling appointments and then make them wait longer queued at the rescheduled event.

Spot on, see my post above.

Went to my hospital today for my second shot of AZ. No vaccine available and was told to come back on Friday because it was being saved for the big show then. Alot of ****** off people in the queue as well as me.

"The Manager report was surprisingly lacking in predictions of numbers or revenue." Hardly surprising after the failure of the Phuket Sandbox which reached only 25% of the predicted numbers. Tourists would be crazy to come here with the constant flip flops, odious paperwork and testing, and mixed messages from various Govt departments.

The military junta and now the civilian govt have been throwing money into the Thai Airways pit ever since they took power so they are as culpable as anyone for the whole sorry mess and vast losses that are continuing to be racked up.

Just like the new Thai/Burma border crossing near Kanchanaburi. Years ago land in the sleepy village of Phu Nam Ron, which is right on the border, was worth 10k bht per rai. The locals couldn't understand why people from Bangkok were suddenly buying as much land as they could. Later the upgrade to International crossing was announced with all the subsequent development and the price of land rocketed x100's. Some very rich people got even richer.

The majority of the teachers in my daughter's school haven't even had their first shot yet, this is in Kanchanaburi. Absolutely appalling failure of priorities imho.

If that's the case I strongly suspect the 'journalist' found a stock photo and inserted it into the article without bothering to read the caption....shoddy work.

You're not wrong....at my daughter's school I found out today that most of the teachers have not even received a single dose yet. Absolute madness.

Compared to the predicted figure of 129,000 by the end of September it's a massive failure but personally I'm surprised they attracted as many as they did.

"The kingdom has not recorded a domestic case of the virus for 51 days as of July 15, winning praise for its strict lockdown which has so far controlled infections." Can anyone explain this in the OP please?

Yeah, if you get done for speeding on a road trip you can put your foot down even more. If you get stopped again just show them the 'ticket' you received earlier. A friend was stopped a while ago for speeding and paid a 200 bht backhander. The cop wrote a short note that he'd already been done for speeding that day and to be let off if caught speeding again.

My daughter's kids back in the UK we're having 2 of these tests a week at the height of the crisis there. None of them had any problem or fear of the ATK test at all. It was easy, quick and painless.

"Mr. Yuthasak said the TAT has also discussed with health authorities a reduction in the price, to around 8,000 baht, for three RT-PCR tests" So my daughter's family of 5 would have to pay an extra 40k bht! I think I know their answer already.

I asked a couple of wifeys police friends why the law wasn't enforced......'not easy, too difficult' was the reply. Before anything actually changes the Royal Thai Police Force needs to be staffed by officers who actually care about the job they're supposed to be doing.

You can buy a pack of 10 in the 20 bht shop.

The first shot they just had was Sinopharm, 2nd is due before the end of Sept I believe.

I'd like to see schools open as soon as possible but teachers in my daughter's school have only just received their first dose of vaccine so I for one won't be happy to see her go back before her teachers have received both shots.

Total reported infections have been on an upward trend for the last 2 weeks.

Yes with a RAT you are much more likely to get a false negative than a false positive so the use of rapid antigen tests is going to find less positive cases than the same number of PCR tests would. This alone can have dire consequences trying to identify an outbreak of covid-19 and contain it's spread.

So 19,000 new cases, outnumbering recoveries. Looking at the chart for combined PCR and RAT cases the recent trend is clearly up.

Not depressed at all just responding to a report that the Director of the Govt's Covid Disease office doesn't think up to 7 million undetected and asymptomatic cases loose in the public is a problem or cause for concern.

Spot on, how can he be a Director spouting such rubbish?

Come to our village and he'll find he's about as popular as an extra hole in the a**.

Thai 15.78 millions are different.