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A bit confusing. The article says that people for first jab can walk in, but then in the criteria, it says that you must have had a previous jab....which is it?

Thanks everyone. I am in Bangkok if that has a bearing on the wait. This is the reply I got when I registered (17th December): " Your registration for the FIRST dose of COVID-19 vaccination is successful. Once available appointment slot is sent to your email, please confirm within 24 hours. Failure to confirm within 24 hours will result in the cancellation of your preregistration." (Sorry, perhaps I should have included that in the original post).

Hello, I've registered successfully as a foreigner to get my first vaccine (over a month ago) but not heard anything since. Is this expected? How long should this take do you think? I'm on a marriage visa from the UK, if that makes a difference? Maybe the scheme has been silently stopped?

Pretty much it., though I'd stress more their demographic situation, which truly is dire, including a serious gender imbalance, and an 'official' birth rate of 1.6. Add in a huge public debt, to be financed by ever fewer workers, and the burden of one child supporting two parents in retirement (that's happening right now....), and I cannot see any way that China will avoid at least several decades of actual decline.

Exactly. Some of those such visitors (myself included) ended up living here precisely because of the great time we had when we were younger. We kept coming back and spending money.

I'd be very careful about comparing international figures, because they are gathered in different ways. The UK and Italy in particular have been using a very broad measure to calculate their 'covid deaths' (notice that they never say 'deaths caused by covid' - a subtle but important difference). Thus, at one point the case fatality rate, if you went by the UK's 'covid deaths' figures, was 13%, while all the Doctors/virologists etc were anticipating approx 1% fatality rate. In the UK it really has been the case that if you died of a heart attack, within 28 days of receiving a positive covid test result, you were included in the 'Covid Deaths' figures. The ONS and PHE have been very clear that this is what they've done, but most people erroneously conflated 'death by covid' with 'death involving covid'.

What? Are you saying that any serious investor hasn't already priced that in? That they would wait until it happens before they sell?