Pattaya: Mass vaccination of 40,000 people at sports stadium to begin mid-May

[webfact]

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Pattaya's mayor Sontaya Khunpluem and health officials went to visit the Eastern National Sports Training center in Huay Yai that will be used to vaccinate 40,000 people.

 

This is an 80,000 dose rollout to tourism workers and the general public in Bang Lamung and some surrounding areas to revive the tourism economy. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Sontaya said that the stadium ticked all the boxes regarding spaciousness, safety and parking. 

 

It will cater to those who have already registered on the Mor Prom app and also those who have not. 

 

The mayor was also upgrading the IT facilities so that people could register on the app onsite. 

 

In a report from Sophon Cable TV on Facebook, the mayor said that this first special vaccination program would commence mid-May and be finished within ten days. 

 

It is hoped to have capacity to vaccinate 6,000 people daily. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

There will be 15 lanes manned by 5 medical personnel in each lane. 

 

All Covid-19 protocols will be followed and those vaccinated will wait for 30 minutes after their jabs to see if they have adverse reactions.  

 

Other vaccination programs will commence in June with the aim outlined by the CCSA or Covid steering committee to vaccinate 60-70% of the Pattaya population. 

 

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[petermik]

Free drinks and snacks provided also or do we have to bring our own.....just asking on behalf of the TGF ????

[johng]

3 minutes ago, petermik said:

Free drinks and snacks

 

There most likely will be many  mobile vendors  selling food in the car parks.

[RobMuir]

Certainly good news and a very positive development. I hope it all goes well.

 

I will now wait for all the negative comments.

[Shuya]

Mid-May. So a week from now. Yup, looks totally prepared and ready. Just missing everything, including jabs.

[nightfox]

Will it be Sanovac?

[Sheryl]

1 minute ago, nightfox said:

Will it be Sanovac?

This month, I don't think they have much else to offer than Sinovac

[Surelynot]

4 minutes ago, nightfox said:

Will it be Sinovac?

Yes, but no need to worry, it has been approved by China..........although I understand they are using Sinopharm for their own citizens......WHO has also approved Sinopharm, but not, as far as I can tell, Sinovac.

[Rhacsyn]

54 minutes ago, RobMuir said:

Certainly good news and a very positive development. I hope it all goes well.

 

I will now wait for all the negative comments.

 

I'm with you on this. Fingers crossed for this and hopefully other new vaccination initiatives and programmes. It is s a step forward, and one, of course, of many steps needed

[RotBenz8888]

Very slowly moving forward. But once the big batches of vaccine arrives, if they're able to apply similar organization as handling the CoE arrivals at the airport, I'm sure they'll reach 70% this year. 

[Joe Farang]

2 hours ago, RobMuir said:

Certainly good news and a very positive development. I hope it all goes well.

 

I will now wait for all the negative comments.

If a week from today or shortly thereafter the vaccination does commence, then it is a positive development.

Until it actually happens,  it is just another politician puffing and blowing hot air.

[tingtong]

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

There most likely will be many  mobile vendors  selling food in the car parks.

 

Which makes total sense...bcos eating and drinking helps to properly wear the mask for the small crowd of 40000 they expecting.

 

[zhounan]

So doing some simple calculations, by the first week of July there will be a lot of positive cases in Pattaya.

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

It is hoped to have capacity to vaccinate 6,000 people daily

Just need 100+ of them and we got progress!

[Emdog]

"It will cater to those who have already registered on the Mor Prom app and also those who have not."

No mention of us expats who've kept many businesses afloat at least for the past year.... considering the Mor Prom app allowed some of those with pink cards to register, only to be told later "sorry, no cigar, not for you" (unless that has changed once more... who can keep up?). Most of us would fall into the "those who have not" (because can not)... "My head is spinning" Covid symptom? No, just trying to follow government pronouncements...

[Leaver]

3 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Very slowly moving forward. But once the big batches of vaccine arrives, if they're able to apply similar organization as handling the CoE arrivals at the airport, I'm sure they'll reach 70% this year. 

 

There's approximately 225 days left in 2021.

 

65% of the Thai population is approximately 45,500,000 people.

 

That's 202,222 people vaccinated a day, nation wide.  

 

Every day this figure is not reached, we move into 2022.

 

Do you think Thailand is up o the task?  

[kinyara]

2 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

There's approximately 225 days left in 2021.

 

65% of the Thai population is approximately 45,500,000 people.

 

That's 202,222 people vaccinated a day, nation wide.  

 

Every day this figure is not reached, we move into 2022.

 

Do you think Thailand is up o the task?  

 

That's only one jab, you need to double that figure and the target I've seen quoted is 70%.  You're looking at 428,000 a day given how many jabs have been given so far.  

[Leaver]

2 minutes ago, kinyara said:

 

That's only one jab, you need to double that figure and the target I've seen quoted is 70%.  You're looking at 428,000 a day given how many jabs have been given so far.  

 

Yes, you are correct, and I did consider those numbers, but was conservative.  

 

Basically, 91, 000, 000 vaccines have to be administered for a 65% rate.   The logistics are huge.  

 

Every day that these targets are not met, means the borders are closed into 2022.  

[galt1967]

Not only will this 'plan' require millions of dosages it requires:

 

Massive medical personnel

Syringes, swabs, etc.

PPE (personal protection equipment)

Transport to/from the stadium

 

Pattaya ALONE, population (500K)

70% vaccinated=350K

implying 1600k/DAY. Every single day.

 

Don't bet on a 'high season' in 2021.

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

Sounds like a great event to me!

Obviously they are going to need many such mass vaccination events in urban Thailand.

The May date indicates this is not for expats. That is not a criticism. Its a fact.

My concern about this event is whether people will really show up in the mass numbers they are aiming for. It will be a major test for the levels of vaccine hesitancy among Thais.

Those that are living in Thailand, we're all in this together.

 

Edited May 8, 2021 by Jingthing

[Leaver]

14 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Sounds like a great event to me!

Obviously they are going to need many such mass vaccination events in urban Thailand.

The May date indicates this is not for expats. That is not a criticism. Its a fact.

My concern about this event is whether people will really show up in the mass numbers they are aiming for. It will be a major test for the levels of vaccine hesitancy among Thais.

Those that are living in Thailand, we're all in this together.

 

 

How will they deal with unregistered Thai's living in the different provinces?  

 

How many of them are there?  How do they know how many of them are there? 

 

Vaccinating 65% of a province's registered population is useless if there is double that number of Thai's that are unregistered living in the province.  We get a glimpse of these numbers during election time.  

 

Just how many vaccines will southern provinces catering for tourists have to procure?  They don't know. 

 

Will they allow Issan hospitality staff who are unvaccinated to come back to work in a province where the registered Thai's have been vaccinated?

 

 

[Soikhaonoiken]

15 hours ago, RobMuir said:

Certainly good news and a very positive development. I hope it all goes well.

 

I will now wait for all the negative comments.

Trying not to be negative...... But if they have 80,000 doses, why don't they do 80,000 people,   I understand that you need 2 jabs for full protection, but WHO guide line is the 2nd jab can be given upto 12 weeks, after the first jab, which will give them time to secure more vaccine  more jabs = less infections 

[madmen]

8 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

Yes, you are correct, and I did consider those numbers, but was conservative.  

 

Basically, 91, 000, 000 vaccines have to be administered for a 65% rate.   The logistics are huge.  

 

Every day that these targets are not met, means the borders are closed into 2022.  

Just a few months back many farang here confident of June jab.

Your figures dont lie unfortunately. 

[kynikoi]

That's next week lol.

 

 

The daily hopium.

[kynikoi]

3 hours ago, Leaver said:

do

uble that number of Thai's that are unregistered living in the province. 

 
The thing about Pattaya is that no one is native to the province. When I'd lived there I think I'd met half dozen women that were from Chonburi.

 

[mikebell]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Sontaya said that the stadium ticked all the boxes regarding spaciousness, safety and parking. 

+ commissions.

[RobMuir]

5 hours ago, kynikoi said:

 
The thing about Pattaya is that no one is native to the province. When I'd lived there I think I'd met half dozen women that were from Chonburi.

 

Try Naklua, plenty of locals there.

[RichardColeman]

8 hours ago, kynikoi said:

 
The thing about Pattaya is that no one is native to the province. When I'd lived there I think I'd met half dozen women that were from Chonburi.

 

I wonder if the bar girls will claim the parents live with them to get them the jabs quicker !

[redwood1]

My main concern is are they giving out free doughnuts or not like in America?  I might lose interest without doughnuts....

Edited May 9, 2021 by redwood1

[Cake Monster]

On 5/8/2021 at 11:33 AM, webfact said:

Sontaya said that the stadium ticked all the boxes regarding spaciousness, safety and parking.

All will be well for the people who are to receive their Jabs. If they dont fall down a Hole or trip on a Paving Brick on the way in from the Car Park.

And then of course they have to hope the place has been properly disinfected after the last Cattle Show held there.