The President of the Professional Tour Guides Association of Thailand, Wirote Sitaprasertnan, submitted a letter to Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutacha, today (Wednesday). The letter requests an allocation of 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine specifically for licensed tour guides in Bangkok, to prepare for the country’s reopening to foreign tourists.

 

Mr. Wirote explained that the association had been contacted by the Disease Control Department about vaccination of tour guides, but there has been no clarity on the issue, so a letter was needed to reiterate their request.

 

Many tour guides have been hit hard by the pandemic, with many having to take other jobs instead. So, Mr. Wirote also wants the Public Health Ministry to pay more attention to tour guides, who play an important role in the Thai tourism industry.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/1000-doses-of-vaccine-requested-for-tour-guides-in-bangkok/

 

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Until the first tourists finally come back one day they will need more than one refresher booster

These demands from different sectors getting ridiculous now. Just do it by health workers first to protect your medical capacity, then age and co-morbidities to reduce the strain on your medical system. 

Everybody will be vaccinated but every one want to be on the front row. for all stupid reasons. August is far away the tourists are even further away. The only way to do this properly is be patient till the incompetent Government has sufficient vaccines and set up a real good schedule.  Let everybody come to get a jab by year of birth or so... Old first, and so younger and younger..  till the year of birth 2009. Now boxers, guides, tourists destinations with no tourists, and  more want to be the first..

Based on the TVF reactions to availability for foreigners, they can get 'em from Phuket. 

 

And have over 28,000 doses to spare.

 

#MeFirst

14 hours ago, Shuya said:

Until the first tourists finally come back one day they will need more than one refresher booster

Don't really need tour guides nor need to vaccinate them until there are tourists. Get on with the general population and lower infection numbers generally. 

Edited June 3, 20215 yr by jacko45k

At this time there is about as much need for a tour guide as there is for a chocolate teapot !! ????

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The letter requests an allocation of 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine specifically for licensed tour guides in Bangkok, to prepare for the country’s reopening to foreign tourists.

Tour guides in Bangkok... who the hell is going to go to Bangkok to tour around while the daily infection rate is so high?

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The letter requests an allocation of 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine specifically for licensed tour guides in Bangkok

simple question - Why ?

 

is Bangkok opening up to tourists soon ?

 

are there not higher priorities than this ?

 

are you ######

if  they start letting in the people who can prove they are vaxinated maybe that will bring a few dollars into the pot  of course without 15 days quarantine\

 

even if u had to do a covid test when arriving and wait a couple of hours i am shure that  it would make life more easier for the expats that come and go and also for maybe some brave tourists