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Foreign residents WILL be included in COVID-19 vaccination program: CCSA


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13 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

but the Thai government’s first priority is to vaccinate all frontline medical personnel, the elderly, those with underlying health conditions and those living within high risk zones.

.....those not living in high risk zones, immigrant workers, Thai owners dogs and cats, the immigrant workers dogs, monkeys, soi dogs and farang retirees 

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10 hours ago, Smokegreynblues said:

Foreigners come in so many categories:-

Foreigners with Social security card

Foreigners with Private insurance

Foreigners with work Group insurance

Foreigners UNDER MOU with neighboring countries+ Pink card

Foreigners as bonafide tourists with 1m dollar covid insurance

Foreigners as retirees

Foreigners with PR 

Foreigners on emergency covid extensions

Foreigners as dependents not included in any of the above. 

They should specify "WHICH" Category of foreigner

All are people  all can spread  covid.

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Foreign residents WILL be included in COVID-19 vaccination program: CCSA

 

Of course no mention of price gouges of said expats? 

 

This government flips over more than my old gf. 

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17 hours ago, Crossy said:

For Flip-flop's Sake guys.

 

At least get your story straight!

 

 

It is straight, it's just that foreigners don't understand the subtlety and nuances of Thai flip -flop, of course most times neither do the Thais'. 

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2 hours ago, Brierley said:

Great, but what about the expats in the rest of the country? And please don't tell me we're going to have to visit our Embassies in order to prove we're long stay residents, don't we already have enough proof of that from the Thai system?  Driving license, pink card, tabien bahn, passport and visa stamp, TM28, 90 day certificate etc etc! 

Solly, not hab record in health department, others no good? 

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13 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

I guess they decided against purchasing / importing the first 20 to 30 million doses as was widely reported last year and went for the cheap option instead.

 

The current situation being the result of that decision.

 

They are not the only country lagging behind. There are certain criteria for the prioritization of delivery from vaccine makers and only rich countries would have made the downpayment(before trial and testing stage) needed. I don't see the Thai government being capable of making those decisions at such early stage of the pandemic when they were relatively few cases. Malaysia is facing a similar situation. They are simply too late in the game. Singapore set aside $1 billion for a population of 5 million and even now only 2.2million doses has been administered. 

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1 minute ago, Artisi said:

Solly, not hab record in health department, others no good? 

A part of the problem is corruption. If it wasn't so rife here there wouldn't be the need for all this triple checking and quadruple verification to ensure somebody in the system wasn't really nicking the vaccine and selling it on. Everyone is paranoid about they might be accused and wants to cover their bippies. Regardless of those things, somebody somewhere will already be making plans how to do just that.

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22 minutes ago, Artisi said:

It is straight, it's just that foreigners don't understand the subtlety and nuances of Thai flip -flop, of course most times neither do the Thais'. 

Nuances of Thai flip-flop:put the rising tone on the flip and falling tone on the flop!

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15 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

They are finding out that most Thai's don't want these cheap vaccines. And all vaccines have a use by date so selling them to us is the only way to save face.

Where are you getting 'Thais dont want the vaccine" from. Given that the system to sign up for the vaccine has failed 2-3 times due to being overloaded.

So Thai people dont want the locally manufactured AZ vaccine and would prefer to pay more for a different vaccine ????

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8 minutes ago, Ian C HH said:

this policy ( prioritization of risk groups regardless of nationality) is absolutely logical and sound and in fact has been followed by many other governments around the world WITHOUT TV front liners derision

You might want to look in the Home Country forum for those critical posts.  We try very hard not to compare other countries when the OP is in regards to Thailand itself.  Comparing is not needed because we are here in Thailand and not elsewhere, and yet many still try to compare here with their in order to make a point, which is inappropriate and does nothing to assist in the discussion of the OP.

 

Logical and sound in your view but illogical in many others views and therefore agreeing to disagree is very common here.

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17 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

I think it is important to understand that when government talks about "foreigners" they are not talking about only or even primarily Western expats. Why should they?

 

The majority of foreigners in Thailand are migrant workers from neighboring countries. Over 2 million of them by most estimates.

 

From an epidemiological perspective, numbers matter which makes western expats of much less concern than these other groups.  It is migrant workers that the spokeswoman referred toi when she said some foreigners have already been vaccinated in Phase 1.

 

Very, very few migrant workers are over age 60 or have chronic diseases, which may be one reason why planning for Phase 2 did nto focus on foreigners.

"Very, very few migrant workers are over age 60 or have chronic diseases, which may be one reason why planning for Phase 2 did nto focus on foreigners."

 yeh,not many "60 year old migrant retirees" with with an underlying "Chronic desease", i assume 90% dead?

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