Expats in Thailand report successfully registering to receive COVID-19 vaccine

[Jingthing]

13 minutes ago, RobMuir said:

Gee you are hard work.

 

Do you think you could call them yourself or do really want me to do that for you also? 

 

More insults.

I think that's very messed up.

I asked you a direct question to openly confirm something that I think you strongly implied before and you refused to answer.

So of course anyone would take that as a no.

No, you have not manually registered in Pattaya with your passport number.

So whether that is actually possible or not in Pattaya taking into account what Sheryl said about Pattaya being loaded with expats appears to not yet  be known. 

Edited May 2, 2021 by Jingthing

[anchadian]

6 minutes ago, Thed said:

555. WHICH vaccine do we get by register..?

You are not informed.

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, scpchris said:

Have any westerners >60 been successful registering for the vaccine with passport number or Thai DL number?

It's not possible with the online tools.

As I'm in Pattaya that's my focus. Private hospitals aren't taking names now.

Trying to determine the situation with public hospitals and clinics.

So far I think no credible report of succes with that either. 

[mrmicbkktxl]

Is the Chinese vaccine actually authorized in Europe or and USA?If you travel to Europe/USA will they let you move free if you got vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine?

[Saltire]

Has anyone managed to get an appointment/register online today?

 

Seen a few reports of "incorrect, foreigner ID number not accepted" appearing now in another thread and on twitter.

 

Possible they did not expect foreign IDs

 

 

 

[skatewash]

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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

That pretty much covers the current situation.  Sinovac and AstraZeneca are in the hand, all the other vaccines are in the bush.

Sinovac is not authorized by the Thai FDA for those 60 years of age and older so if that covers you then you can pretty much count on getting AstraZeneca.

The Thai government is getting Sinovac from China and vaccinating people in Thailand while we speak.  The Thai government also is getting AstraZeneca from Europe and vaccinating people in Thailand while we speak.  The Thai government is hoping to produce AstraZeneca in Thailand and if that happens we will have a lot of AstraZeneca vaccine in Thailand, millions of doses eventually.

Regarding all the other vaccines:  much is being discussed but there are no little bottles of any other vaccine sitting in a refrigerator in Thailand waiting to be injected into people's arms.  There just isn't.

Will that change in the future?  No idea.  Hope so.  But at the moment all there is ('is' being the operative word, not 'will be') is Sinovac and AstraZeneca.  At the moment there seems to be much more Sinovac than AstraZeneca so if you get vaccinated in the near-term it will almost certainly be Sinovac unless you are 60 or over and then it will almost certainly be AstraZeneca.

[Shannoblic]

Hi All,

 

On Tuesday or Wednesday I will be attending my local private hospital for my monthly check-up and supply of tablets.  My doctor is very helpful and friendly and I will be asking if I can purchase vaccination now.

 

I will update this thread when I have his reply.  

[John Drake]

3 minutes ago, Shannoblic said:

Hi All,

 

On Tuesday or Wednesday I will be attending my local private hospital for my monthly check-up and supply of tablets.  My doctor is very helpful and friendly and I will be asking if I can purchase vaccination now.

 

I will update this thread when I have his reply.  

 

Please inform us of which city and which hospital when finding out.

[Shannoblic]

I will

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, TaoNow said:

Do you really want to register if you cannot choose the brand of vaccine you receive when the time comes?

I wouldn't care because the FDA knows more about the vaccines than I do.  Perhaps you're lucky enough to be better qualified and more informed than the world's authorities about specific vaccines.   Of course, I could go by hearsay but that doesn't strike me as being very sensible.

[Pronto2]

35 minutes ago, appleman said:

I got on the list at Chiang Mai Ram Hospital, not worrying about the free government list. 

May I ask, if you got on the list in person at Ram, or did you accomplish that via email or telephone?  Last week, I wrote Ram and asked if they had begun a wait-list for expats.  I received a "nothing happening now" reply.  Perhaps that has changed?

[Peterw42]

Where are these countries that give you a choice of what vaccine you would like ?

As far as I am aware most countries approve 1-2 vaccines and order large quantifies and that's it.

Its not much use wanting the Phizer vaccine in Thailand or waiting until its an option, it may never be approved or imported into Thailand.

I have friends in various countries who have been vaccinated, as far as I know they couldn't pick from a menu at the hospital.

[crazykopite]

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Most of our embassies are telling us they won't help us directly with doses. Could they possibly help in another way? Such as lobbying the Thai authorities to provide the app in English, allow passport numbers, and officially make it clear that high risk foreigners can be in the earlier group?

Having worked out of an unnamed British Embassy in my past life what you suggest is perfectly normal to Joe Public but not to those within the BEs around the world they don’t think logically I’m sorry to say ☹️☹️☹️

[looplaw]

Is there an English version for mor prom to register for vaccine?

[Saltire]

I found this video very educational, and simple to follow.

 

It clears up any misconcception about good and bad vaccines and the confusion over efficacy. These rates we all see are not comparing apples with apples.

 

As the doc says when asked 'what vaccine should I take' the answer is 'whatever you are offered' (Except here no SInovac for 60+)

 

 

 

 

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[Jingthing]

5 minutes ago, looplaw said:

Is there an English version for mor prom to register for vaccine?

No.

[Peterw42]

5 minutes ago, looplaw said:

Is there an English version for mor prom to register for vaccine?

It appears there isn't an English version.

Its not too hard just to sit with a Thai person and get them to read you the questions and enter your answers.

[mahtin]

6 minutes ago, looplaw said:

Is there an English version for mor prom to register for vaccine?

There are explanations of how-to-use by other posters on this site.

It is not clear if having a pink card will do you any good, as nobody has been to an appointment yet.

[Saltire]

Just now, Peterw42 said:

It appears there isn't an English version.

Its not too hard just to sit with a Thai person and get them to read you the questions and enter your answers.

It's hard if your wife has very little Thai reading skills and zero Thai writing/typing skills. Her English is ok but it's very hard, if not impossible for her to be of any assistance in these 'official' situations. Have to alwas muddle through.

 

I am sure I am not alone on this one.

 

 

[Fromas]

11 minutes ago, looplaw said:

Is there an English version for mor prom to register for vaccine?

 

Not yet, but one is in the works.

[natway09]

I would think that July would be closer to the mark for any mass inoculations

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

 

It's an integral part of the Thai beaurocratic process, and it links into other various Thai departments etc.

 

Why should it accept foreign passport numbers which are issued by other countries and Thailand has no input or control over issue or checking whether the passport number is still valid or supersededed, cancelled etc? 

 

This is reality, why 'sad'?

[scorecard]

53 minutes ago, irwinfc said:

i have SSO, but was told by admin at workplace that only Thais are eligible for now. 

 

From my own experiences I somehow doubt that in many places the 'admin' folks or the 'HR' folks are all that well informed nor up to date with the changes etc., that are in progress with this matter

[Millcx]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I suspect that it varies by Province.

 

Here on Samui I was told not to bother. If I walked in for my appointment, I would be sent away again. Thais only until more vaccines are available.

They were very apologetic.

I wouldn’t worry too much ... Just save up your money to pay for something 

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, scpchris said:

Have any westerners >60 been successful registering for the vaccine with passport number or Thai DL number?

For clarification, I successfully registered yesterday and I am 56, and I know that another poster who is over 60 successfully registered yesterday as well. Of course it was by using the Non-Thai ID card 13 numbers.  The Thai DL is only 8 numbers long, so it will not work as it needs to be 13 digits, the same with a passport, as they are not 13 digits long either. Here was the response I received on the Line app.

 

Edited May 2, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[skatewash]

I have successfully registered for the Covid-19 Vaccine in Phuket.  I used a Phuket-specific website (not the Doctors Ready, mor prom Line Official Account) because it is what Phuket residents were asked to use.  It only works if you are resident in Phuket.  I used a website called in English, Phuket Must Win, which is this site here:

https://xn--12cmj6ba0a7b3g4a6fud5d2a.com/

I used my Thai National ID number as it appears on the second page of my yellow house registration book (also known as the tabian bahn for foreigners, or yellow book for short).

After I was registered I checked when my appointment was (as a test to see if I were really registered) and got the following message (translated from the original Thai by Google Translate):

"Name-Surname <my name appears here>

We have received your registration.

Please wait for the announcement of the allocation of the first vaccine appointment when we know the deadline for delivering the vaccine from the Ministry of Public Health."

Again, this website is only for use by Phuket residents and is different from the Doctors Ready (mor prom) Line Official Account).  By the way, I was unsuccessful trying to use mor prom using either my Thai National ID number from my yellow house registration book, or the Tax ID from the Revenue Department of Thailand.  I understand that people with a pink ID card have been successful with registering at mor prom.  There's a point in mor prom where it asks for a number that people who have a pink ID card can find on the reverse of their pink ID (sort of like the security code on credit cards).  If you don't have the pink ID card there's nowhere for you to get this number.  So my attempt to use mor prom failed.

[realfunster]

3 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Many of those who were saying how useless PR and pink ID were.

 

Indeed, well worth the hassle and expense for the once every hundred years pandemic...

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I successfully registered yesterday and I am 56, and I know that another poster who is over 60 successfully registered yesterday as well.

Manually somewhere I assume if using passport number.

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Manually somewhere I assume if using passport number.

Sorry, I edited my response to add in the details.  It was a Thai ID.  Passport numbers and DL numbers are not 13 numbers long and will not work.