UAE bans citizens from travelling to Thailand, Kuwait suspends flights

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, CanuckThai said:

Talking with my wife after work yesterday, after they referred a Chinese woman with CV19 symptoms to another hospital.  She had a meeting/conference about the s_it show that transpired, and lack of/ no masks and hand sanitizer in hospitals.  I asked: don't hospitals keep a basic inventory (30 day and a contract) of basic consumables in the hospitals (eg. masks, hand santizer, alcohol... etc)?  Answer: No.  The price is too high.  Me: What are they doing about it darling?  Answer: They are working on it....

There's no need to carry an inventory of stuff until something happens that mandates it. This is the same logic that the itinerant minivan operator/driver or tour kiosk uses when they have a placard advertising various prices to various destinations. Once your minivan arrives, it invariably has to go and fill up with just the right amount for the journey. They're not very good in a drop-dead, OMG!I-have-overslept-and-I'm-late- for-my-flight scenario. Especially at rush hour!

[Grumpy John]

Must be nice in Pattaya at the moment, no annoying Chinese tour groups and soon no middle eastern gangs riding around on scooters as if they are in a motoGP.....because they are not there to do it!  2 of the 6 reasons I left Pattaya back when I did.

[rkidlad]

23 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

You do know that China has slapped a travel ban on their great unwashed leaving the country?

 

No? Maybe Kuwait and the others don't know either.

Sorry, are you stating that people in China are banned from leaving the country at the moment? 

[poohy]

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

It's already in the Thai (language) media.

 

2 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Sauce (why is the BBC first to report on this?) : https://www.bbc.com/thai/thailand-51624125

I think although  that TV  is  branded as a news forum, but its not necessarily set up for breaking news as it is fed by other outlets, so basically it's just daily news report 

EG the train crash yesterday was reported on many sites as early as 8pm it appears on here this morning

[DrJack54]

6 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Sorry, are you stating that people in China are banned from leaving the country at the moment? 

Tour group bookings were banned early doors. That's all. 

Edited February 25, 2020 by DrJack54

[Jai Dee]

5 minutes ago, poohy said:

 

I think although  that TV  is  branded as a news forum, but its not necessarily set up for breaking news as it is fed by other outlets, so basically it's just daily news report 

EG the train crash yesterday was reported on many sites as early as 8pm it appears on here this morning

 

It's already been picked up by the ThaiVisa News Team.

 

See here.

[whiteman]

As we all know Thai Airways was all ready in the crapper b4 this out break Looks like the government will have to bale the losers out again.

 

This also could be a good time for them to get rid of the old farts running the Thai airways.

[tifino]

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Meanwhile; Thai officials let all Chinese tourist enter Thailand with open arms...

You may have since noticed, via recent TVnews; the PM has finally started reacting,

albeit in an initially reserved case by case manner...

[NanLaew]

8 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

15 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Sorry, are you stating that people in China are banned from leaving the country at the moment? 

Tour group bookings were banned early doors. That's all.

Thanks for that. I was searching for a citation for the date of the ban and its announcement but it's been buried under the knee-jerk, multiple, repeat listings of OTHER counties banning travel to/from China.

 

The fact that maybe 90% of Chinese visitors to Thailand were group tourists and the associated threads indicating Pattaya is a ghost town isn't enough for some people.

[rkidlad]

2 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Thanks for that. I was searching for a citation for the date of the ban and its announcement but it's been buried under the knee-jerk, multiple, repeat listings of OTHER counties banning travel to/from China.

 

The fact that maybe 90% of Chinese visitors to Thailand were group tourists and the associated threads indicating Pattaya is a ghost town isn't enough for some people.

So there is no ban, right? 

[NanLaew]

10 minutes ago, whiteman said:

As we all know Thai Airways was all ready in the crapper b4 this out break Looks like the government will have to bale the losers out again.

 

This also could be a good time for them to get rid of the old farts running the Thai airways.

And off we merrily go on (yet) another THAI-bashing tangent. How bloody imaginative is THAT!

 

Meanwhile, in other news a totally bankrupt national carrier goes tits-up.

[NanLaew]

4 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So there is no ban, right? 

Yes there is but since it's not a 100% lock-down ban and only a 90% one, delightfully for you, no.

[DrJack54]

10 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So there is no ban, right? 

Correct. Chinese national can enter Thailand.

In last couple of weeks have been to DMK international. Ghost town. 

Flown into Swampy and passport control empty. IO guys putting their hand up to attract people. Currently I'm in Phuket. 

Some Chinese in Patong.

Zero Kamala. Few in Phuket town. 

Have a Thai friend in Koh Samed has small bar on beach. Chinese tour group area. Reakons it's empty.

 

Edited February 25, 2020 by DrJack54

[abrahamzvi]

4 hours ago, BestB said:

Some east European countries also issued a ban. Let’s see what big mouth Anutin has to say and can only hope and prey the rest do not follow to issue bans 

Which East European countries have issued a ban on travelling to and from Thailand???

[NanLaew]

There's a comprehensive list of who is specifically banning who here.

 

Note that Vietnam appears to consider diplomats and officials and their own people as being immune to the novel coronavirus with regard to who's banned. Must look for my old diplo passport.

 

I think that travelers need to consider where they want or need to be in the next 10-14 days as more restrictions apply. If you are happy to be in Thailand, stay put. If you don't like it much, maybe start searching for flights? There should be plenty of choices.

[miskanotaji]

it's more probable that other countries ban flights from Thailand than that Thailand bans flights from China. Which is reason why other countries now ban flights from Thailand.

Ahhhhaaaaa

[PremiumLane]

3 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

The other issue is that  Covid 19 is very infectious, more infectious than influenza, or the common cold.  The 3% mortality rate must be taken within the context that far more people will be infected so it is  indeed a killer because the disease burden is so heavy.

That is a big leap to make, how do you know far more people will be infected? 

 

"It means stopping the outbreak might be more difficult, since people start to become infectious early on in their disease or may even spread the virus when they’re asymptomatic. But to confirm these two findings, we’ll need more science, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “We still don’t know to what extent people without symptoms can infect,” she pointed out."

 

[mickymouse1]

Israel issued and enforced a total travel ban on Thailand. It is a well known fact the the MOSAD has a very strong link to their Thai counterparts and am certain there is a hidden truth that made Israel issue the ban.

[bankruatsteve]

4 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

it's humidity that keeps the virus alive.

Not so according to studies.  Dry air is conducive to transmission.

[justin case]

thai big response will be, you ban me, here, I ban you ...lol

[brewsterbudgen]

51 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So there is no ban, right? 

No ban.  Bangkok is getting hundreds of Chinese every week to take the IELTS exam, as all IELTS testing has been suspended in China, Vietnam, and most other Asian testing countries.  Bangkok has both IDP and the British Council providing tests, and offers daily computer-delivered tests.  

[abrahamzvi]

20 minutes ago, mickymouse1 said:

Israel issued and enforced a total travel ban on Thailand. It is a well known fact the the MOSAD has a very strong link to their Thai counterparts and am certain there is a hidden truth that made Israel issue the ban.

Israel has also issued a total travel ban on Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Recently on South Korea and Japan. Taiwan has fewer cases than Thailand, I don't know about Macao, but I assume that Israel tries to avoid travel to and from countries popular with Chinese tourists. I really doubt that the Mossad collects information about diseases, in Thailand, China, Italy or anywhere else.

[AlienHermit66]

The world is going crazy. Some countries are banning people coming from Thailand; meanwhile, the Thai government is telling Thai people not to travel to Singapore and Japan; meanwhile, I live in Japan, and I haven't talked to a person in weeks who was super-worried about the coronavirus, and this includes doctors. I desperately want to go to Thailand, but am worried that the Thais (who are banned by others) won't want me, just because I come from Japan, a country that the miserable media has branded as the worst place outside of China, even though the majority of coronavirus suffers "in Japan" were on a bloody ship that came from elsewhere. The fact is, in Japan, people are far healthier than average this year, with far, far fewer people suffering from horrible colds and flu, and walking around in masks. The percentage of the population walking around in their zombie masks, and the number of people sniffing, coughing, sneezing, and drooling all over the place is much lower than usual for this season. Was at the supermarket yesterday, and out of nine people standing in line, 1 out of 9 was wearing a mask. The rest were like, "let's get on with life." We have magnitude 9.0 earthquakes here, and nuclear disaster, so <deleted> coronavirus. 

[hobz]

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

Nothing, they're just panicking due to the number of Chinese visitors to Thjailand.

 

The panic and reactions by governments are simply due to overreaction by uninformed people on social media.

Yet they don't ban flights to china? Or other countries with higher infection counts? Makes zero sense. I assume the news article is misleading by not mentioning what I assume to be a much longer list of banned countries.

[Jane Dough]

Another reason to never go to these ghastly countries in the middle east. And come what may to never use their airlines.

 

Rooster

[wensiensheng]

4 hours ago, Maverell said:

So what do these countries know, that we don't, if they are banning travel to Thailand?

I think WHO and other governments simply don’t believe the Thai numbers of infected cases. Simple logic suggests they false. It’s also clear that Thailand is not implementing any kind of control measures at all (I flew via Phuket and Don Muang airports to Bali last week and didn’t have my temperature taken anywhere except for Bali). Rather than criticise Thailand and get involved in a public spat, other governments just ban Thai arrivals until such time as they see evidence of honest reporting and effective controls.

 

the ball is in Thailand’s court.

[stevenl]

43 minutes ago, mickymouse1 said:

Israel issued and enforced a total travel ban on Thailand. It is a well known fact the the MOSAD has a very strong link to their Thai counterparts and am certain there is a hidden truth that made Israel issue the ban.

Sure mate, get the Mossad involved in this.

[Jai Dee]

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[CockneyGit]

5 hours ago, BestB said:

Some east European countries also issued a ban. Let’s see what big mouth Anutin has to say and can only hope and prey the rest do not follow to issue bans 

Which Eastern European countries? I haven't seen anything in the news?

[Bkk Brian]

This could well be the reason that Kuwait has stopped flights to Thailand, they've just announced another case yesterday although not saying where its from https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200224-sitrep-35-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=1ac4218d_2