Thailand's re-opening "coming soon" as Anutin shows "Vaccine Passport"

[Mr Meeseeks]

24 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 And if the airline (for your/my overseas travel) wants proof of vaccination before they will confirm a booking, do you send them a scan/capture of the yellow book page? (Which could easily be a photoshop production.)

 

Or do you front up to an airline office to show the original (which might have been photoshoped)?

 

Or???

 

All highlighting that in modern times digital/easily & quickly verifiable online proof of vaccination is much more sensible/practical.

Unworkable in places like West Africa, where the technology is not available, hence the strict requirement to show the yellow book on arrival.

 

Why would you go to the trouble of trying to fake the book when it is easily available and costs next to nothing?

[coastguard]

"Soon" in Thailand means anything from 5 minutes, to an hour, to a week, and I guess in this case a few months.

[mtls2005]

3 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Pretty clear he is talking about Thais travelling internationally not the other way round. 

 

Honestly, I don't know what he's talking about?

 

And if your assumption is correct why direct people here to Lumpinin?

 

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

10 minutes ago, gunderhill said:

And it's  going to  be accepted worldwide  right?

I have travelled using the very same yellow book to countries where it is mandatory to show it on entry. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Just now, mtls2005 said:

 

Honestly, I don't know what he's talking about?

 

And if your assumption is correct why direct people here to Lumpinin?

 

 

I was merely stating the book is available from there if required, wasn't suggesting or directing people to go and get one. 

 

He's talking about giving the yellow book to all Thais upon vaccination which will demonstrate they have been vaccinated and will be proof that should enable international travel to countries where a COVID-19 vaccination is required. 

 

He is not talking about allowing vaccinated foreigners in, although you could infer that if they are issuing these yellow books to Thais, foreigners will require some sort of proof of vaccination to enter Thailand too. 

[Oldie]

How long will it take until "agents" will provide you this document?! 

 

[mtls2005]

OK, I get it, I think.

 

I was misled by the "re-opening coming soon" headline.

 

So Thailand will issue a vaccine passport to all Thais who are vaccinated. Awesome.

 

Now which countries will accept this Thai vaccine passport?

 

I'm guessing none, right?

 

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Just now, mtls2005 said:

OK, I get it, I think.

 

I as misled by the "re-opening soon" headline.

 

Thailand will issue a vaccine passport to all Thais who are vaccinated. Awesome.

 

Now which countries will accept this Thai vaccine passport?

 

 

The International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP), also known as the Carte Jaune or Yellow Card, is an official vaccination record created by the World Health Organization (WHO). As a travel document, it is a kind of 'medical passport' that is recognised internationally and may be required for entry to certain countries where there are increased health risks for travellers.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_Vaccination_or_Prophylaxis

[mtls2005]

2 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

As a travel document, it is a kind of 'medical passport' that is recognised internationally and may be required for entry to certain countries where there are increased health risks for travellers.

 

Let us know when this covers COVID vaccinations, and which countries accept Thailand's "version".

 

Until then it's just noise.

 

 

[Captain Monday]

Khun, Anutin, the 1970s are calling  they want their bone common International vaccination card back. The health passports soon to be rolled out by IATA and airlines has nothing to do with a bit of paper that can be easily faked.

 

https://www.iata.org/en/programs/passenger/travel-pass/

[ICELANDMAN]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand's re-opening "coming soon" as Anutin shows "Vaccine Passport"

 

Picture: Kapook

 

Thailand's DPM and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul went on Facebook to show what he hopes every Thai will soon be holding.

 

A vaccine passport.

 

The passport is officially titled "International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis" and has parts in English to facilitate international travel. 

 

Every Thai who has been vaccinated will get one. 

 

Picture: Kapook

 

Anutin was upbeat on his page promoting Thai hashtags that translated as # Thais must be safe and # together the country will recover.

 

Based on this Kapook said that the opening of Thailand was "coming soon" and quoted the minister as saying that soon for Thais everything would be "relatively normal".

 

 

 

 Passport of 2002, Anuti ***** I have not checked these farangs are always late on everything, luckily we Thais are already in the future 2564

 

 

[Pravda]

I wanna yellow book for yellow fever.

 

how to get?

[Mr Meeseeks]

 

 

Just now, Pravda said:

I wanna yellow book for yellow fever.

 

how to get?

Thai Red Cross, Lumphini, Bangkok.

 

Avoid the private hospitals, they will charge you an absolute fortune. 

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Based on this Kapook said that the opening of Thailand was "coming soon" and quoted the minister as saying that soon for Thais everything would be "relatively normal". 

I predict this won't happen for at least 3, maybe 5 years.

Thailand will keep in place all the paper chase, and foreign tourists (if any remain) will just go somewhere easier.

[RR2020]

And of course............... the vaccines are not completely effective and still a decent percentage of those vaccinated will get the virus, carry the virus and spread the virus.

 

So, the vaccine passport actually means NOTHING in terms of eliminating the spread of Covid-19

 

Unless you want people holding it going around spreading Covid-19 - which a percentage of those carrying and vaccinated will be doing.

 

 

IDIOTS !!!

[rioD]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Does he think foreign tourists want to mix with UNVACCINATED locals???

If you trust the vaccination so much why are you worried about people who aren't vaccinated ?

 

[spacex]

With Ivermectin showing 89% prophylaxis in trials and studies, I'm more than happy to show them my supply of Ivermectin.

https://c19ivermectin.com

[pokerface1]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The passport is officially titled "International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis" and has parts in English to facilitate international travel. 

So where is a list of all the countries that will accept Thai's arriving with this booklet ??? I for one think most countries will enable travelers to download an app to their phones to facilitate a certificate of vaccination. Perhaps with a selfie of me and my nurse getting a jab 

[Thaiophil]

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

...several million... ?

 

 

Plausible estimates of Burmese alone are 5 m

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Just clarifying in case anyone thought this was in any way a new concept or new document specifically for that purpose. 

During departing OZ for the war in Vietnam all soldiers were given numerous vaccinations and were issued with a white paper (half A4 or similar size) document which had the same details on the left side as shown on the photo at the start of this thread, and the vaccinations hand written in a list on the right hand side of the paper.

 

The document had to be shown on boarding a QANTAS charter flight in Australia to travel to Singapore, then again on arrival and departure at Singapore Changi Airport to fly to Saigon (best I can remember 1970).

 

Different point, on arrival back in Australia on an air force Hercules flight nothing was checked, just bundled into trucks for discharge and treated as a nuisance. 

 

 

[grantbkk]

First, the reason I'm here in Bangkok is that I have Yellow Fever. I didn't know that there was a shot for that. Maybe I would have never left my home country,

 

There is going to have to be a digital network to track and trace vaccinated people worldwide. This ex construction workers attempt to placate Thais with the yellow prop is just today's example of a long list of his faux pas.  He dresses like a medical person but is he really qualified to deal with a worldwide pandemic? 

 

I'm a bit suspicious of anything free in Thailand. Personally I will buy mine at a hospital facility. What steps is this government and our Health Minister taking to protect the public for counterfeit or diluted vaccine? How many factories are now making vaccine right now and where are press photos of the processes? Are they really going to export vaccine before every Thai is vaccinated?

[Captain Monday]

45 minutes ago, RR2020 said:

And of course............... the vaccines are not completely effective and still a decent percentage of those vaccinated will get the virus, carry the virus and spread the virus.

 

So, the vaccine passport actually means NOTHING in terms of eliminating the spread of Covid-19

 

Unless you want people holding it going around spreading Covid-19 - which a percentage of those carrying and vaccinated will be doing.

 

 

IDIOTS !!!

 

It takes a certain kind of pessimism to continue the nonsense that vaccines that produce up to 95 percent immune response will not reduce transmission.

There is very good news, as expected,  coming out of Israel that patients  infected post vaccination, the viral load deep in the throat and nasopharangeal cavity is reduced to neglible levels, thus reducing potential for transmission, especially with masking. When transmission slows mutation slows. 

 

A bit of paper or a QR code is just a marker that will be used by different venues and different countries in various ways. Regular vaccination, probably yearly, will be part of our long term mitigation strategy going forward. Social distancing, continues, masking continues, increased sanitation continues. c-19 will probably  never go away completely. The other solution is to close off the country forever, as been demonstrated is impossible for Thailand due to long porous borders.  Only remote islands, like in Pohnpei in Micronesia, that can can control all entry can ever hope to do this. Now since their populations are completely "not immune" to covid they must vaccinate asap.  Or they will have to remain completely isolated, forever.

 

 

[Cake Monster]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand's DPM and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul went on Facebook to show what he hopes every Thai will soon be holding.

How are Thais gonna hold this with only 200,000 Sinovac and 117,000 questionable AZ Vaccines for the whole population available now, with a few Sinovac more to follow in the next 2 Months.

This guy has spouted some Tosh in the past, but this is about his best yet.

[John Drake]

How does giving Thais a vaccine passport open up Thailand for foreign tourism?

[John Drake]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

Now which countries will accept this Thai vaccine passport?

 

If I were the US or Western Europe, I would not accept a vaccine passport that carried with it the possibility that the carriers had received Sinovac.

[PatOngo]

50 minutes ago, rioD said:

If you trust the vaccination so much why are you worried about people who aren't vaccinated ?

 

Does it say anywhere I'm worried?

[aldriglikvid]

I just finished my (expensive...) ASQ. Turns out perhaps I could've waited a couple of months for a no-quarantine entry. Oh well, no room for regrets in life. ????

 

Gotta say one thing though. It's quite bold to lock down a country for over a year (with all the economic repercussions) and then open it for vaccinated people. Doesn't take many cases to create a spread...

[aldriglikvid]

I just finished my (expensive...) ASQ. Turns out perhaps I could've waited a couple of months for a no-quarantine entry. Oh well, no room for regrets in life. ????

 

Gotta say one thing though. It's quite bold to lock down a country for over a year (with all the economic repercussions) and then open it for vaccinated people. Doesn't take many cases to create a spread...

[Sheryl]

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[Forza2002]

Anutin was on his high horse earlier proclaiming that a 3rd wave could be imminent as the number of people wearing masks has dropped. Every time Anutin is caught on camera he is never wearing a mask. Anutin is such a xenophobic hypocrite...