Fourteen day quarantine for tourists set to end - two plans mulled for April 1st start, sources suggest

[Thaiophil]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

the tourist will be required to quarantine at their home where they are about to begin their journey before setting foot in Thailand. 

Riiiiiiight. So never mind the journey to the airport, the time at the airport and the long plane trip (highly likely two leg when Thai goes bust) where they will be mixing with everyone else who hasn’t been in quarantine...

[quadperfect]

Just like to point out the guy from hua hin or near there living here in thailand, who drove to phuket in his own car  recently jan 29th had a patong stay for a week and returned to hua hin covid positive.

Nothing could go wrong with asking people to self quarantren in there own country.

Are these people in charge of these ideas really that innocent.

[2 is 1]

9 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

Airlines companies could offer vaccine to their passengers. Wait & see ????

Private sector really not get vaccine this year! And how you think they manage that? You book flight /pay vaccine , go the get one, if need 2 dose you wait 3 weeks! After that you need wait 2-3 week before it get full guard!

Then you ask "vaccine passport" wait that.......... so you wait all that sht over 2 month if lucky! And like i say private sector not get vaccine this year! Hole point was , that not come any new tourist in Thailand before september - december!

Edited February 19, 2021 by 2 is 1

[brucegoniners]

They'll be reversing course on this one in a few minutes...

[arick]

Just wait until you start producing the vaccine in June.. Crazy talk 

[Spellforce]

1 minute ago, arick said:

Just wait until you start producing the vaccine in June.. Crazy talk 

With only 83 deaths in Thailand, do you really think Thailand needs to vaccine all the country ?

[richard_smith237]

A Covid-19 PCR test on arrival and quarantine until a negative result is an ideal solution. 

 

Nothing is water tight and this is of course more risky for the nation than a two week quarantine. Nevertheless this is an excellent step forwards towards normalising what is a long term situation. 

 

At some point instantaneous Covid-19 tests will become available and restrictions will ease further.

Hopefully, a fully vaccinated population will remove the necessity for any vaccinated individual to quarantine on arrival. 

 

 

Of course, there are many comments on ridicule from the ThaiVisa.com posters, thats par for the course on this (or any forum), yet this move forwards can only be a good thing for the tourist industry and the economic health of the nation on a whole. 

 

Personally, I welcome the idea to return to Thailand (from my work trips) without having to quarantine for two weeks. 

 

[arick]

12 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

With only 83 deaths in Thailand, do you really think Thailand needs to vaccine all the country ?

I think they should start vaccinated at least a dozen... 555 or at least Bkk. Yes they need to vaccinate the Whole Country when Bangkok used to be the most visited place in Earth of course vaccinate. 555  Tourist from all the world end up everywhere in Thailand even laying in the sugar cane field. 

Edited February 19, 2021 by arick

[RichardColeman]

With the UK now mulling vaccine passports hopefully that will be enough soon

[rupert the bear]

duur but no one in asias gonna be vacced this yr.look at japan s korea hk etc even singapore.look at yourselves its absurd.who will come here from USA or UK its too far? a few sexpats?.EU is miles behind tied up in redtape and bile.more wacko stuff,at least we can rely on that once a week at least.

[Spellforce]

3 minutes ago, arick said:

I think they should start vaccinated a dozen... 555 or at least Bkk yes they need to vaccinate the Whole Country when Bangkok used to be the most visited place in Earth acourse vaccinate. 555

Phase 2 of vaccination is all people working in tourism (Pattaya, Island etc...).

[arick]

Just now, Spellforce said:

Phase 2 of vaccination is all people working in tourism (Pattaya, Island etc...).

Calm down <deleted> happens 

[Katipo]

Neither of these ideas will happen. Next.

[Megasin1]

its just a misunderstanding around sources which should probably have translated as sauces an easy mistake to make when serious matters are being discussed with a bottle of ketchup. A bottle of HP sauce would have generated a more workable solution.

[mike1967]

Why is that Thailand thinks it holds all the cards in regards to who they will allow in? Do they not realise that, to vaccinated countries, they will be classed as high risk. At best, their Covid testing is sketchy so foreign governments will be wary to say the least. It's not a case of not being allowed in, it's more our own countries won't allow us to travel there without expensive quarantine in our home countries.

[MuayThaiGuy]

They have already said that the vaccine will NOT prevent you from catching or transmitting the "virus"... so why only let vaccinated people in?

Makes no sense..

UNLESS, of course.. restricting travel for people who don't want to be inoculated is part of an agenda being rolled out by sellout politicians who took bribes from the benefactors of the pharma industry.

[robbioff]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Fourteen day quarantine for tourists set to end - two plans mulled for April 1st start, sources suggest

 

REUTERS FILE PHOTO for reference only

 

Sources in the Thai business media have suggested that plans are taking shape for an end to the 14 day quarantine for foreign tourists. 

 

Behind the scenes the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Tourism Ministry, the Tourism Council, ATTA (the Association of Thai Travel Agents and the THA (Thai hoteliers' Association) have been pressing for an end to the two week quarantine that many see as a huge hurdle to the reintroduction of foreign tourism. 

 

They want to see those who have been vaccinated being allowed to come under two plans that are about to be proposed. 

 

The first is called "Quarantine At Home". Under this idea the tourist will be required to quarantine at their home where they are about to begin their journey before setting foot in Thailand. 

 

Once in the kingdom they will have a Covid check but still have to be quarantined for two nights, three days.

 

The second plan is called Mobile Quarantine. This idea involves the health department and the TAT acting as chaperones for tour groups. 

 

They may decide to allow a DMC (Thaivisa understands this to be a Destination Management Company) to fulfil this chaperone-cum-monitoring role. 

 

So what is the timeline?

 

According to sources the final details are being ironed out over the coming week and will be presented to the TAT board for discussion among all relevant parties towards the end of February. 

 

Then it will go to the cabinet where PM Prayuth Chan-ocha will be apprised of the plan and make the final decision. 

 

If given the go ahead the sources suggest the plans - possibly both of them - will get the nod from April 1st. 

 

Thaivisa notes that there appeared to have been a cooling of the "vaccination passport" idea but with these extra caveats in place there may be a way forward to opening up the country for those who have received Covid vaccinations abroad. 

 

 

 

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Everyone, stop booking ASQ now!!! And if you can cancel it with a refund, do it!!! Not much longer...????

[Megasin1]

34 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

With only 83 deaths in Thailand, do you really think Thailand needs to vaccine all the country ?

Well yes, if that isn't too much to ask, after all if they want people to travel in April then they would have to guarantee safety. I can't comment on all countries but for example, the UK (one of the leading vaccinators) have mainly only given the first jab with a 12 week wait for the 2nd. This is also mainly the very old or dangerously ill people. As usual these proposed solutions are just disinformation (dinfo) released in order to placate a growing rumble of dissatisfaction within the Thai industries that are collapsing financially. They can say what they want but at the end of the day, personally speaking, after suffering endless lockdowns, cabin fever (which surprised me as I dont own a cabin ) and isolation from my family to avoid covid and being absolutely desperate for a sunshine holiday and despite having family in Thailand, I will not be rushing to visit some tinpot, militia run country with no general population testing and rediculous entry requirements to risk catching something I have thus far avoided. ????

[Spellforce]

11 minutes ago, Megasin1 said:

to risk catching something I have thus far avoided. ????

To avoid what risk when hospitals in Thailand are empty ? (I know it because I live in Thailand and I have a very good friend who works at the Bangkok Hospital of Pattaya)

[BusyB]

4 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

 

 

I'll just go with "No comment."

 

 

I'm just patiently waiting for something firm to materialize by the end of the year ... hopefully ...

[HuaHinHim]

4 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

 

 

I'll just go with "No comment."

 

Or check the start date

[paulikens]

3 hours ago, internationalism said:

so not tourists (expatriates, workers, businessmen), including repatriated thai, will still have to do 14+ days, but tourists only 2 days (probably to wait for a reliable negative results) and let go to any unprepared hotel or let go to mix with a large group of fellow tourists and travel across the country for sightseeing.

and that in the country, which doesn't have a single dose of vax for it's population (bar some 100k front medical workers).

it will be full failure  

@internationalism i presume you are in one of the three groups expats,workers,businessmen?what are tourists to you then, some sort of scum? and anyway if you have been vaccinated it doesnt matter what group you come under you will still only have to do 2 days quarantine under the proposal.  will that meet your approval, or do you think dirty tourists should not be allowed to come at all? oh great one!

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, internationalism said:

so not tourists (expatriates, workers, businessmen), including repatriated thai, will still have to do 14+ days, but tourists only 2 days (probably to wait for a reliable negative results) and let go to any unprepared hotel or let go to mix with a large group of fellow tourists and travel across the country for sightseeing.

and that in the country, which doesn't have a single dose of vax for it's population (bar some 100k front medical workers).

it will be full failure  

And who will supervise/monitor/control the 14 days quarantine before they depart for Thailand?

[cedel]

3 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

I don't see this happening until there is vaccination plan in place and until the virus variant is better understood. If a more infectious or deadly version of the virus spread in Thailand there would be tens of thousands dying every month like in Africa.

stupid comment ! Why did they not die 1 year ago then with millions of chinese tourists and probably 10th of thousands infected chinese tourists as well? This is again a pure supposition...what  if they are negative? Also where in Africa? Why to compare Thailand with Africa?

[mike1967]

8 minutes ago, Spellforce said:

To avoid what risk when hospitals in Thailand are empty ? (I know it because I live in Thailand and I have a very good friend who works at the Bangkok Hospital of Pattaya)

Governments are concerned with new variants. Any country with a population that hasn't been vaccinated will be classed as high risk. The problem isn't how full the hospitals are now.

[bermondburi]

46 minutes ago, MuayThaiGuy said:

They have already said that the vaccine will NOT prevent you from catching or transmitting the "virus"... so why only let vaccinated people in?

Makes no sense..

UNLESS, of course.. restricting travel for people who don't want to be inoculated is part of an agenda being rolled out by sellout politicians who took bribes from the benefactors of the pharma industry.

This would suggest otherwise. There will be an effect on transmission, but how much of an effect is still being studied. This article is quite positive. 

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-55913913?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA%3D%3D#aoh=16137239174086&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fuk-55913913

[miamiman123]

What number scheme is this one?? 

[Wuvu2]

Lets cut them some slack. It's an impossible task to balance the devastating effect of the loss of the tourist industry on individual Thais against the threat of letting the virus spread before vaccinations ease the problem.  I don't think it's fair to blame the government on the assumption that everyone in the government is either corrupt or stupid.  There is just no winning solution so it's constantly in flux and continually debated.

[phantomfiddler]

4 hours ago, PatOngo said:

 

Are you putting health and common sense before tourism profits!!! ????

I'm still trying to work out the grammar and hopefully, following that, the meaning ????

[ukrules]

This is simply not going to happen. Not now, not ever.

 

When it gets high enough someone will tell them 'no' and that will be the end of the matter.

 

I don't know why these hair brained schemes are ever published before even being presented to someone in a position with the power to authorise its implementation.