BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Disease Control has recommended travelers work remotely instead of traveling back at the end of the Songkran holidays to help contain the spread of COVID-19, while urging people who are already traveling back to self-isolate for 14 days.

 

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has also made recommendations for the period after the Songkran holidays, which this year is considered a critical time to curb the spread of COVID-19.

 

The department is recommending people currently visiting their hometown during Songkran holidays postpone their return trip and instead work remotely from their current location if possible, while people who need to return are asked to use private vehicles.

 

The department also recommends passengers on public transport wear a mask at all times, practice social distancing, and refrain from eating on board. All persons returning from their Songkran trip are urged to self-isolate for 14 days and work from home.

 

On Thailand’s vaccination program, the DDC Director General Dr Opas Karnkawinpong said 579,305 doses of the 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses received, have been given to 557,044 people in 77 provinces, as of 13th April.

 

He said the number corresponds to the country’s vaccination target ahead of the mass vaccination drive starting in June, with 6-10 million doses of vaccine arriving monthly.

 

The Department of Disease Control is expected to take delivery of another 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Sinovac this week. The vaccine has already arrived in Thailand, and is now pending safety tests and regulatory clearance.

 

The Ministry of Public Health has allocated 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to health workers, and instructed provincial public health offices to complete the program of allocated vaccinations within the month, to keep up the fight against the fast-spreading new wave.

 

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More idiocy - many of the people who visited families are hands on workers - cab drivers, cleaners, shop staff and such. How do they "work remotely"? It shows again how totally out of touch the governing elite are with Thailand.

Thailand is clearly battling governmental incompetence as well as COVID.

DDC discourages inter-provincial travel 

Had they said this BEFORE Songkran, it would not be the complete mess it is now !

Everyone knew, except the balloons in charge.

Total incompetence.

3 minutes ago, Snig27 said:

Thailand is clearly battling governmental incompetence as well as COVID.

Most people can recover from Covid! ????

2 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

Everyone knew, except the balloons in charge.

Oh, they knew all right.

 

But Thailand is a country - unlike the West - where the government still has a healthy fear of the populace.

 

If they had tried to ban Songkran travel at the last minute after promising for months that it could go ahead, almost nobody would have taken any notice. Never give an order unless you are fairly sure it will be obeyed.

 

The good news is, that despite all these scary pictures on TV of people in orange T-shirts marked "Must be isolated" being marched into field hospitals, the total death toll from Covid remains, according to the last figure I saw, at 97. That is, less than 2 days' carnage on the roads. Some crisis.

So now then kind sir, since you allowed the travel to happen you want them to stay put it seems.

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The Department of Disease Control has recommended travelers work remotely instead of traveling back at the end of the Songkran holidays to help contain the spread of COVID-19, while urging people who are already traveling back to self-isolate for 14 days.

Please explain how that will work for the street food vendors who closed shop and drove north, or those factory workers who must be at work.  Please tell their companies that you are requiring them to self isolate and to please pay their wages for those 2 weeks.....NOT

 

Tools, just ridiculous.  If you don't' want them or anyone traveling put the country in a lockdown for the next 14 days to see where the issues are and start to test everyone, and I mean everyone.  No more Fred Astair/Ginger Rodgers tap dancing and singing in the rain.  Lets be realistic here.

16 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

Most people can recover from Covid! ????

I like that, Most.  sums it up pretty succinctly. 

49 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

instead of traveling back at the end of the Songkran holidays to help contain the spread of COVID-19,

is there no limit to their stupidity ? they firstly they say "go home have fun" and now they say "maybe cannot return home"

but they have to come back homes to take their PC's, laptop with peripherals, paper files and whatever else they need to do work. They might need also to go to their workplace to arrange with co-workers many other issues.

They have just went for a few days holidays, and not for several weeks brake.

 

the government promised in advance happiness, and not unemployment for 2 weeks

 

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said the number corresponds to the country’s vaccination target ahead of the mass vaccination drive starting in June, with 6-10 million doses of vaccine arriving monthly.

Could Thai people not apply for a jab from 1st of May, and get a AZ jab made in Thailand???? 

How many AZ do they produce in Thailand? Why still use the useless Sinovac???

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said the number corresponds to the country’s vaccination target ahead of the mass vaccination drive starting in June, with 6-10 million doses of vaccine arriving monthly.

Just noticed this, they've consistently promised that in June AZ will be delivering 10 million per month, its been mentioned officially dozens of times and has always formed part of their vaccination plan.

 

Whats this lower revised figure of 6 million, is there something we should know about the production going on in Siam Bioscience? Can a reporter ask or go and interview the company? Thought not, we can just lose 4 million a month with no explanation.

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Just noticed this, they've consistently promised that in June AZ will be delivering 10 million per month, its been mentioned officially dozens of times and has always formed part of their vaccination plan.

 

Whats this lower revised figure of 6 million, is there something we should know about the production going on in Siam Bioscience? Can a reporter ask or go and interview the company? Thought not, we can just lose 4 million a month with no explanation.

It's a precaution measure. Less vaccine produced the less side effect it could cause.

 

Denmark announced on Tuesday it would stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether, becoming the first European country to do so over suspected rare but serious side effects.

its all bit a late old pal, your boss unleased a can of worms by his utter stupidity

I guess we wont hear much from P for a while as stories have to be straightened

9 minutes ago, BookShe said:

It's a precaution measure. Less vaccine produced the less side effect it could cause.

Rubbish

 

9 minutes ago, BookShe said:

Denmark announced on Tuesday it would stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether, becoming the first European country to do so over suspected rare but serious side effects.

Yea read that a few mins ago, up to them, working wonders in the UK and many other countries

2 hours ago, Snig27 said:

More idiocy - many of the people who visited families are hands on workers - cab drivers, cleaners, shop staff and such. How do they "work remotely"? It shows again how totally out of touch the governing elite are with Thailand.

Thailand is clearly battling governmental incompetence as well as COVID.

Remote massage.

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Rubbish

 

Yea read that a few mins ago, up to them, working wonders in the UK and many other countries

It was meant to be sarcasm. 

Just now, BookShe said:

It was meant to be sarcasm. 

Soz I'm obviously slow sometimes

2 hours ago, YetAnother said:

is there no limit to their stupidity ? they firstly they say "go home have fun" and now they say "maybe cannot return home"

It's share and share alike, if you've got it go and spread it, if you don't have it stay there until you do.

12 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Rubbish

 

Yea read that a few mins ago, up to them, working wonders in the UK and many other countries

A possible 0.001% problem is more important than a potential 2-3% death rate.

3 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Most people can recover from Covid! ????

But what most of you yung 'uns, who would have the seniors all die off earlier than they otherwise would, seem to not recognise is that older people tend to run the show, so letting the virus rip just aint gonna happen!

 

He said tounge firmly in cheek????

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The department is recommending people currently visiting their hometown during Songkran holidays postpone their return trip and instead work remotely from their current location if possible

I guess government officials may struggle with this recommendation as they didn't have the forethought to pack the photocopier in the car with the family 

So, basically, "peasants, stay in your hometowns and leave the hospital beds in Bangkok free for the Bangkokians". 

 

1 hour ago, BookShe said:

It's a precaution measure. Less vaccine produced the less side effect it could cause.

 

Denmark announced on Tuesday it would stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine altogether, becoming the first European country to do so over suspected rare but serious side effects.

What do "side effects" have to do with the "quantity produced/administered"?

1 hour ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Remote massage.

Remote ending? 

19 minutes ago, djayz said:

Remote ending? 

As remote as possible.

Why did the government allow the people in the Red Zones to travel across Thailand at their whim in the first place.  Now?  Damage control and narrative control.  Exonerate the guilty; blame the innocent.
Thailand - a day late and 100 baht short.

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said the number corresponds to the country’s vaccination target ahead of the mass vaccination drive starting in June, with 6-10 million doses of vaccine arriving monthly.

Arriving?  From where?  Siam Bioscience isn't going to be operational?  It beggars belief.

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Department of Disease Control has recommended travelers work remotely instead of traveling back at the end of the Songkran holidays to help contain the spread of COVID-19, while urging people who are already traveling back to self-isolate for 14 days.

So it's ok for people from red zones in Bangkok to travel to provinces and infect the uninfected, but it's not ok for them to come home?

5 hours ago, connda said:

So it's ok for people from red zones in Bangkok to travel to provinces and infect the uninfected, but it's not ok for them to come home?

Correct because there are lots of Burmese just eager to come and work in BKK to escape the murderous regime there plus the biggest incentive for the Thai conglomerates and those famous major business families is that they will work for far less money, So basically it is a win win all round for the elite.

10 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Most people can recover from Covid! ????

Most.  But many don't.  And many are now suffering long term effects from the virus.

 

Was at the beach yesterday.  It was PACKED!  A super spreader event for sure.  We'll see the results over the next 2 weeks.