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  1. Not just for those without previous infections... As far as I know it is actually recommended to prevent a second infection with a different dengue strain.
  2. I hope BJT and the Democrats have the decency to vote for Pita even if they do not join the coalition.
  3. I tried to find any reference to an IATA prediction of 200 million arrivals in Thailand by 2031....... No surprise, but couldn't find it. Are the Thais just making it up???
  4. About 4 months ago I went to Turkey and there was no such thing at the airport.....
  5. Thanks for that article. It gives a proper background, unlike the PBS article.
  6. Quote from the linked article (PBS): "“Covifenz” is made from plant proteins which, to the human immune system, look like the virus that causes COVID-19" From a scientific point of view this raises far more questions for me how this should (or even can) work than it gives confidence. Would need a lot more background information before I could even start to believe this is not a total waste of resources.
  7. All within Europe. It just depends on the countries you are flying to, not on the airlines. And even though I have a house in Thailand, I will not return as long Thailand sticks to their silly entry rules.
  8. Made quite a lot of international flights lately and never needed a PCR result.....
  9. Right. It does make me wonder though why the virus particles seem no longer infectious. Like I said, RNA is very rapidly degraded unless protected by the virus envelope or some protein. Maybe some kind of blocking of the spike protein does the trick.
  10. Thank you for the article. It does not however tell that PCR test are prone to false positives due to "dead" virus material as claimed by the other poster. It does say that the virus genetic material can still be found for quite a while after infection. Whether or not these virus particles are infectious is difficult to tell, maybe the laboratory test for that is not accurate enough (it might not detect below a certain threshold of virus particles, unlike the PCR test).
  11. Do you have any source to back that claim? RNA is very unstable and rapidly degraded (unlike DNA), so I highly doubt your statement in the case of RT-PCR tests for Covid-19.
  12. The virus contains RNA, not DNA. For a PCR test this RNA first has to be copied into DNA (with an enzyme called Reverse Transcriptase) so to detect viral RNA you need an RT-PCR test. I suppose that RNA outside of the virus particle would be broken down immediately (RNA is very unstable, DNA is not). So I think it would be unlikely that the (RT)PCR test would pick up 'historic', no longer infective, genetic material of the virus as opposed to genetic material from infective virus particles.
  13. At least in The Netherlands (and I suppose many other countries) general practitioners are not allowed to give out a Fit to Fly document. You would need to go to a specialized clinic (and pay a steep price for the useless form....)
  14. And doctors will be very hesitant to give you one (might even be against the law). But there might be ways to get one, even without a physical check, as long as you pay for it. It my country it was 60 euro to get one for my wife. Totally useless requirement by the Thai government.
  15. Very few people are willing to travel right now???? Quite the opposite, as for me, I am having holidays more frequent than ever (but am fully vaccinated and currently in Europe where it is now mostly business as usual). But I get your point: I am absolutely not in a hurry to return to Thailand. Too many hurdles and if many attractions, restaurants and other businesses are closed why would I?
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