Tourists banned from first wave of ‘travel bubbles’, says Anutin

By The Nation

 

 

The “travel bubble” scheme will open first to business groups and international-school teachers who can be easily tracked, not general tourists, said Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday (June 19).

 

He was speaking after meeting with Japanese ambassador Nashida Kazuya. Japan is among the countries deemed at low risk for Covid-19 contagion that are being considered for the “travel bubbles”.

 

About 20,000 foreign businesspeople, Thai work permit holders, and international-school students and teachers have registered to return to Thailand, according to the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

 

Meanwhile, Anutin said he was ready to be injected with a prototype vaccine for Covid-19 as part of medical trials. Several Thai research programmes are currently seeking a vaccine for the virus.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30389926

 

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12 minutes ago, webfact said:

The “travel bubble” scheme will open first to business groups and international-school teachers who can be easily tracked, not general tourists,

Hubble , bubble , toil and trouble as far as tourists bubbles go then .. 

 

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, Anutin said he was ready to be injected with a prototype vaccine for Covid-19 as part of medical trials

Try a rabies one first .. might stop the distemper when he opens his gob .. 

Edited June 19, 20206 yr by Justgrazing
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"who can be easily tracked" sounds sinister, tracking wristbands possibly.

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Several Thai research programmes are currently seeking a vaccine for the virus.

Have they tried  looking in the understairs  cupboard?

Good.  Keep the tourists out for as long as possible.

The one & only outspoken Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul whose discriminatory remark on Western tourists, saying that they are “dirty” and more likely to spread coronavirus than Asians caused a ruffle of feathers....I disagree with his, dirty, remark but sadly there are a lot of European countries that are classed as virus high risk, my country, the once Great Britain, being at the very top of the list!

We all knew that tourists would be at bottom of list. Perhaps those with marriage or retirement etc next added to list. Poblem is that by that time their extension/reentry permit most likely expired. Meaning many would require tourist visa

Just now, DrJack54 said:

We all knew that tourists would be at bottom of list.

This could easily change when other members of the Govt ask genius Anutin where he thinks Thailand gets its money from...... (But they are dirty!)

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Unwashed Filthy Farang

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, Anutin said he was ready to be injected with a prototype vaccine for Covid-19 as part of medical trials.

Good for him.  A thinking man, would not be so hasty to jump in, but Stadtler supports him 100 percent.  Take the jab twice!

Guess what...if China opened tomorrow and would let their people travel again, Thailand would create a "chinese travel bubble" within a few days. 

Anyway...it`s their country...so let them do what they want. However, I hope no one will help them, when they realize how huge they have damaged their economy! European countries were forced to reopen, as they saw what a disaster it would have been for the intra-EU tourism sector without a summer travel peak-season. But that`s the Thai mentality...they always react, never act proactively. Covid 19 was limited here for whatever miraculous reasons, but surely not because the government reacted pro-actively.

That won`t work with the economy...once damaged on the long-term, it will take ages to recover. Stuff like the domestic travel stimulus package is just as effective as when they gave away the shopping vouchers and announced proudly that it boosted the economy.

Edited June 19, 20206 yr by SpanishExpat

9 minutes ago, Oldie said:

Which countries are clean? 

Amazing Trusted Thailand of course! Have you not heard, there is no prostitution, no pollution, no corruption and that honey of them all - no responsibility!

 

Edited June 19, 20206 yr by DaRoadrunner

I doubt very much that the higher ranks of the Thai gov't have any major interest in white foreigners and their marriages to Thai women-let alone the children from such marriages.

 

I don't think that they are on the "urgent" list as,strangely enough,they are rarely commented upon by the Big Wigs..

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Anutin said he was ready to be injected with a prototype vaccine for Covid-19 as part of medical trials

yes please, it can only get better...

52 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

"who can be easily tracked" sounds sinister, tracking wristbands possibly.

To be honest, having not seen my wife for 15 weeks, I would happily do 'home quarantine' with a tracker to prove my whereabouts.

Edited June 19, 20206 yr by KhaoYai

6 minutes ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Amazing Trusted Thailand of course! Have you not heard, there is no prostitution, no pollution, no corruption and that honey of them all - no responsibility

and no domestic Covid 19 and no testing!

22 minutes ago, Oldie said:

Which countries are clean? 

Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Fiji, Laos, Cambodia for starters.

Edited June 19, 20206 yr by vermin on arrival

3 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Fiji, Laos, Cambodia for starters.

Hardly going to make up the numbers for lost tourists though. Unless the big boys are included it's over for ages, UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, South Korea and Japan are not clean from covid-19

1 minute ago, vermin on arrival said:

Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Fiji, Laos, Cambodia for starters.

New Zealand for instance still has a travel ban. Australia too. So even if Thailand allows them they cannot come. I think it is not that easy. 

28 minutes ago, Oldie said:

New Zealand for instance still has a travel ban. Australia too. So even if Thailand allows them they cannot come. I think it is not that easy. 

Still has the ban because the bubbles haven't been negotiated, the whole point of travel bubbles is that they are not unilateral. They are based on bilateral or multilateral agreements. So not that easy because nations need to negotiate and agree to them, but certainly can do them if they desire to.

32 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Hardly going to make up the numbers for lost tourists though. Unless the big boys are included it's over for ages, UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, South Korea and Japan are not clean from covid-19

I said for starters. It also enables the beginning of some kind of normalcy and enables people who got trapped in certain places to move and do things they need to do for their lives.

1 hour ago, tribalfusion001 said:

"who can be easily tracked" sounds sinister, tracking wristbands possibly.

Micro chipped at immigration. ????

 

46 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Fiji, Laos, Cambodia for starters.

New Zealand has now 4 people Dx last few days.

 

40 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

 South Korea and Japan are not clean from covid-19

Not clean but have it under control. These two might be included in a way that has more stringent requirements.

5 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

I said for starters. It also enables the beginning of some kind of normalcy and enables people who got trapped in certain places to move and do things they need to do for their lives.

Your thinking with a western brain, they have their own agenda in Thailand and it's probably not what we want.

I get this awful feeling that if we in the UK get a vaccine, we will be forced also to take a Thai one - expensively

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, Anutin said he was ready to be injected with a prototype vaccine for Covid-19 as part of medical trials.

I didn't know they could test the prototype vaccine on Jack r ses.

1 minute ago, vermin on arrival said:

Not clean but have it under control. These two might be included in a way that has more stringent requirements.

These two countries only come for go go bars, karaoke and soapy massages, which are not open. They either need mass tourism form China or western countries, both are no goes.

1 minute ago, RJRS1301 said:

New Zealand has now 4 people Dx last few days.

 

Yes, I see them now. NZ declared the pandemic over earlier. So no international travel until all nations have 0 cases? 1 case is a deal breaker? Wait for a vaccine that may never come?  Seems crazy to me.

4 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

Yes, I see them now. NZ declared the pandemic over earlier. So no international travel until all nations have 0 cases? 1 case is a deal breaker? Wait for a vaccine that may never come?  Seems crazy to me.

It's a crazy world of trying to be a covid free country or accept covid with minimizing the deaths. NZ, Aus and Thai are going the covid free route, big mistake I think.

Ooh look, both articles from today:

    

             Before (forgot face mask)                                       After (remembered)

 

source: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1169160-bhumjaithai’s-anutin-open-to-cabinet-reshuffle/