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Pretty small area affected, looks to be less than 20 houses. Had a soi near a friend of ours blocked off and quarantined about a month ago with many more than that.

".....about 200 new infections being reported on daily basis, as a result of active screening with rapid antigen test kits (ATKs)." Time to pull the mainland's trick and cut right back on the number of tests..... voila an instant case reduction.

Maybe it reversed into the motorcycle?

My daughters and their families visit Thailand every year and there is no way they'll be coming whilst there are ridiculous paperwork demands to follow before you can even get on the plane to Thailand and then crazy demands on travel and accommodation once here as well as the dire consequences should you test positive.

No diminishing of the paperwork requirements and covid-19 cases have been on the rise recently so who is crazy enough to think anymore than a handful of foreign tourists will jump through all the hoops and then take take the risk of visiting?

Brit was in Khon Kaen, this Dutch guy is in Phetchaburi.

A mere drop in the ocean in compared to the immense damage done to the UK economy by the ongoing Brexit farce.

Bangkok.....sorry.

Thanks for the reply. The contact my wife spoke with in the main agency let on that Thai had paid back the money early last year. Entirely agree that using an agent can be very convenient. My wife's friends arranged some varied travel plans for us that would have been impossible online.

I wouldn't as it's for the common good that as many as possible are vaccinated as soon as possible. In the UK anyone can show up and request a jab. My Thai wife had to make a trip back to the UK a couple of months ago and was given the Pfizer shot no questions asked.

How many extra deaths and those suffering from long covid is acceptable?

It would appear they are not actually insolvent, money is certainly moving around anyway, as the person my wife spoke with is actually authorised to make small transactions but unfortunately as we are owed for 3 tickets it falls outside of amounts being okayed at the moment.

We booked tickets early 2020 for flights in May Bkk-Lhr return, through one of wifeys friends, a sub-agent for a major travel agency. We received an email from Thai in March 2020 informing us flights had been cancelled and to contact our travel agent. Through our agent we arranged a refund and were told 4-6 weeks. The refund never arrived and we were told it was held up because of Thais bankruptcy. Through my wife's friend we learned that Thai Airways had in fact paid out the refund early last year but the travel agency she is a sub-agent for had held onto the money because of cash flow problems of their own. Not happy we contacted the agency ourselves and asked for our money back, this was early this year not sure of the date, and were promised a refund at the end of July. Since then calls to their phones have gone unanswered as have emails. Yesterday my wife's friend gave her the personal number of a staffer in the big agency who has knowledge of what is happening with the refund process. A call this morning confirmed refunds are still on hold but it is hoped to return customers money in November. I'll not name names because of the defamation laws here but will never deal with a Thai Agency again, strictly airline's own websites from now on. A call to the Thai Consumer Protection Board elicited the response that they are aware of the agency in question and that there is an ongoing investigation into the obvious shenanigans going on. I should add that my wife's friend is owed a substantial amount of commission money from the main agency and has also been promised that in November. Time will tell.

From the OP, "We are not short of vaccine", he proclaimed. "We will have 140 million doses by the end of the year which divided by two is 70 million people. That's going to be enough to inoculate 90% of the population." He should know better than spouting such claptrap knowing full well that Sinovac will be requiring a third booster shot for each recipient.

Fully submerged without the amulet.

Should we swallow or spit?

When you rig a parliament with 250 of your own non elected stooges you're not going to worry about a censure debate.

Agree with you that the infection rate is highly unlikely to be 40% all over Thailand. However the number of deaths in the UK is much lower than Thailand despite the UK having significantly more +ve cases. There is also ample evidence that people in Thailand are being refused tests and still being turned away from hospital. My daughter and I were both refused a test at our local hospital a while ago despite a fever and cough. There are people in our own village who are isolating at home because they are potential contacts but have not been tested nor will they be.

UK has more reported cases for sure. Thailand only conducts 50k tests a day of which 40% are +ve. If Thailand tested 100's of thousands a day as in the UK their +be rate would be many times higher.

So you tell a forum that you're vaccinated but don't want to show a restaurant that you've been vaccinated.

"....but conceded that fatalities among individuals over 60, and sufferers of chronic illnesses remain high, marking a need to step up vaccination of these groups." Something the whole world has known for the last year and a half.

Seems like they're taking lessons from the UK Conservative Govt in handing out covid related contracts.

Spot on....my Thai wife has had 2 shots but I'm not due the second AZ until Sept 20th. The way any bug goes around the kids at school no way is my daughter back to school until at least the end of October.

Schools should only be reopened when all the teachers have been vaccinated for at least a month with the second jab. Those at my daughter's village school have not yet got even their first shot and I would not be happy sending her back to school at all.

The official population of Cha-am is 50,000. 70% is 35,000 so 70,000 doses required to be administered for full vaccination. Any decent journalist would have been asking serious questions as to the apparent shortfall in jabs instead of the usual parroting and cut and paste of a press release.