Thailand to tighten border controls after detecting South African COVID-19 variant

[ba ba]

5 hours ago, Mywayboy said:

They need to enforce a 5 Klm radius trave zone for the population. 

Except essential services & work related travel.

It worked in Australia 

ho no it didn't but if you beleave the leing media and pols it did

 

[connda]

37 more days until the July 1st Grand Opening. 

"I'm soooo excited!"  ???? "I wonder how many million tourist will visit?" 

[Muzzique]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Ohhhh those leaky borders... trying to plug a hole that's been widened over the decades is not going to be easy.

 

Sounds like a TripAdvisor review for a mature bar girl I once knew.

[Danderman123]

8 hours ago, Bundooman said:

and the current surge of Covid  from the Songkran free-for-all

It is mental laziness to state that there was a big surge of Covid in the provinces after Songkran....... unless you think that people from Bangkok spent Songkran in the factories and slums where the infections are really happening.

[JimmyJ]

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The first local case of the South African variant,known as B.1.351, was detected on May 4 in a 32-year-old Thai man after he was visited by family who entered Thailand from Malaysia through an informal border crossing...".

 

"...informal border crossing..."?

[NobbyClarke]

776 fatalities in a year.

If!!?? true this is outstanding and congratulations to the health workers

I don't know of many other countries with such low cases.

I repeat If!!?? true.. 

 

[Proboscis]

8 hours ago, Bundooman said:

The headline screams - 'Thailand to tighten border controls after detecting South African COVID-19 variant'

 

You would think that after the returning prostitutes saga last year, the saga of 'unwanted' immigrants from Myanmar and Laos, etc., and the current surge of Covid  from the Songkran free-for-all, that all border controls have been and presumably are, tightened already.

 

Would you not?

Indeed you would. The Lao have tightened their border along the Mekong. River patrols by the Lao army can be seen during daytime and night ever since illegal crossing by Thais set off the second wave in Laos, leaving the country in lockdown since mid-April.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

It is mental laziness to state that there was a big surge of Covid in the provinces after Songkran....... unless you think that people from Bangkok spent Songkran in the factories and slums where the infections are really happening.

I'd say its mental laziness to not look at the statistics first before saying there was no surge in the Provinces as a result of Songkran travel and lack of lockdown in Bangkok.

[Scott Tracy]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

visited by family who entered Thailand from Malaysia through an informal border crossing, the director-general of the disease control department said.

 

Informal border crossing...? Good grief. It beggars belief...

 

 

[ChrisKC]

When floodgates are open, that lets in the water usually.

 

Maybe those rich Russians and Chinese will be coming in by boat!

[Ireland32]

Too many Thais no money will drive migrants all over thailand better get serious and punish them , Immediately 

[riclag]

Good luck with that !

[MrJ2U]

The problem with putting all your eggs in one basket:

 

Two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine were found to have only a 10.4% efficacy against mild-to-moderate infections caused by the B.1.351 South Africa variant, according to a phase 1b-2 clinical trial published on Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

[MrJ2U]

These signs will help along border crossings: