THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 1 July 2021

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Unvaccinated at-risk British Nationals in Thailand Invited to Connect With BCCT

 

 

Over the past weeks the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand (BCCT) has been contacted by many British passport holders residing in Thailand for updates and advice on the current vaccination situation in Thailand. At the same time, we have become aware that some, particularly those at greatest risk from Covid-19, have not yet been vaccinated and have been unable to register to be vaccinated.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222224-uk-citizens-seeking-covid-vaccine-in-thailand/

 

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Thailand buys 5 million doses of Moderna coronavirus vaccine

 

Women receive the Sinovac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as the Thai resort island of Phuket rushes to vaccinate its population amid the COVID-19 outbreak ahead of a July 1 end of strict quarantine for overseas visitors to bring back tourism revenue, in Phuket, Thailand, June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand said on Wednesday it would import nearly four million doses of Moderna's mRNA coronavirus vaccine towards the end of this year and a further one million in early 2022, for use by private hospitals.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222260-thailand-buys-5-million-doses-of-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/

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Experts call for Thai government to procure mRNA vaccines instead of Sinovac

 

Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP

 

The Infectious Disease Association of Thailand (IDAT) is calling on the Thai government to procure mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, instead of China’s Sinovac, citing concerns over the Chinese vaccine’s efficacy against new variants, especially the virulent Delta strain.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222235-experts-call-for-thai-government-to-procure-mrna-vaccines-instead-of-sinovac/

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Drunken police officer denies Bangla shooting charges

By The Phuket News

 

Cpl Pornthep Channarong of the Phuket Provincial Police is caught on CCTV firing at close range at Mr Aroon on Bangla Rd, Patong. Image: CCTV / Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Pornthep Channarong, the corporal with the Phuket Provincial Police who was drunk off-duty when he shot 25-year-old noodle vendor Aroon Thongplab in the stomach on Bangla Rd in Patong in February, has entered a plea of not guilty and will fight the charges against him in court.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222274-drunken-police-officer-denies-bangla-shooting-charges/

 

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COVID alert for high-risk contacts on Bangkok-Phuket flight

By The Phuket News

 

Image: Phuket Official Info Center

 

PHUKET: Phuket officials have issued an alert for any passengers on a flight from Bangkok to Phuket on June 25 to present themselves for a COVID test at their nearest government hospital.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222275-covid-alert-for-high-risk-contacts-on-bangkok-phuket-flight/

 

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PM praises homegrown vaccine developments

By Tanakorn Sangiam

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - With the development of four vaccine candidates in progress, the Prime Minister has praised the Thai scientists behind these projects which will play a crucial role in Thailand’s epidemic response, as well as reducing the country’s reliance on vaccine imports.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222276-pm-praises-homegrown-vaccine-developments/

 

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Government’s latest Covid-19 restrictions spark civil disobedience campaign

By Areeya Kunawaradisai

 

 

The hashtag #กูจะเปิดมึงจะทําไม (“We’re staying open. What are you going to do about it?”) trended on Thai social media on Wednesday following the country’s latest Covid-19 restrictions, which prohibit restaurant dine-ins and mandate a 9 pm closing time for one month.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222277-government’s-latest-covid-19-restrictions-spark-civil-disobedience-campaign/v

 

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#SaveDrYong trends on social media after calls to dismiss Sinovac-supporting virologist

By Panithan Onthaworn

 

 

A new online campaign to save a prominent Thai virologist trended on social media Wednesday in response for calls to have him removed due to his views on vaccines.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222278-savedryong-trends-on-social-media-after-calls-to-dismiss-sinovac-supporting-virologist/

 

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Guidelines for travelers entering Thailand after its reopening

By Praphorn Praphornkul

 

Photo : www.thaiembassy.com

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Phuket will reopen to vaccinated tourists tomorrow (July 1st), with Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, set to arrive in the province to oversee its reopening. The Royal Gazette’s website recently published the 26th emergency decree on requirements and guidelines for reopening the tourism sector in pilot areas, starting tomorrow.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222279-guidelines-for-travelers-entering-thailand-after-its-reopening/

 

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Thailand reports new daily record of 57 coronavirus deaths; 5,533 new cases

 

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Thailand on Thursday (July 1) reported 5,533 new COVID-19 cases and 57 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222295-thailand-reports-new-daily-record-of-57-coronavirus-deaths-5533-new-cases/

 

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Phuket Sandbox: 300 tourists mostly from the Middle East to arrive today, 82% island now vaccinated

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thailand's tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan told Daily News yesterday that the Phuket Sandbox was ready to start today.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222296-phuket-sandbox-300-tourists-mostly-from-the-middle-east-to-arrive-today-82-island-now-vaccinated/

 

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Backlash against government: Restaurants plan civil disobedience and "bars in the streets" protest - court case looms

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Restaurant owners in Bangkok furious about the ban on in-house dining and drinking of alcohol have initiated a civil disobedience campaign. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222277-government’s-latest-covid-19-restrictions-spark-civil-disobedience-campaign/?do=findComment&comment=16612729

 

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Civil disobedience: CCSA general tells restaurants DON'T allow in-house dining and drinking - it'll only spread Covid

 

 

Thailand's Center for Covid Situation Administration or CCSA has begged restaurants mounting a civil disobedience campaign not to break the law.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222316-civil-disobedience-ccsa-general-tells-restaurants-dont-allow-in-house-dining-and-drinking-itll-only-spread-covid/

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Top businessmen on 120 day reopening plan: Vax 70% with quality vaccine and stop flip-flopping

 

Picture: Manger

 

Top businessmen in Thailand have told the government to stop their flip-flopping. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222318-top-businessmen-on-120-day-reopening-plan-vax-70-with-quality-vaccine-and-stop-flip-flopping/

 

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Moderna vaccine: Private hospitals will charge 1,200 baht service charge - more than 50% mark-up

 

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INN reported that the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation are charging private hospitals 1,100 baht for each dose of Moderna vaccine of choice.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222319-moderna-vaccine-private-hospitals-will-charge-1200-baht-service-charge-more-than-50-mark-up/

 

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Phuket officers ordered to police the bridges for COVID travellers

By The Phuket News

 

Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET: Police, soldiers, navy personnel and an assortment of other law-enforcement officers in Phuket have been given clear orders to ensure that any persons crossing the bridges onto or off Phuket comply with the COVID-19 protection measures.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222325-phuket-officers-ordered-to-police-the-bridges-for-covid-travellers/

 

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Phuket Sandbox scare: No truth to rumors of cases of "Delta" variant as island prepares to reopen

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook declared that Phuket was safe after a local doctor dismissed social media claims that ten people had tested positive for the Delta variant, formerly called the Indian variant. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222328-phuket-sandbox-scare-no-truth-to-rumors-of-cases-of-delta-variant-as-island-prepares-to-reopen/

 

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Twenty employees of Chinese backed loan sharking operation manage to flee despite RTP top brass raid

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Twenty employees of a Chinese backed loan sharking operation managed to "flee the scene" despite a raid by top brass Thai police.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222329-twenty-employees-of-chinese-backed-loan-sharking-operation-manage-to-flee-despite-rtp-top-brass-raid/

 

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Phuket Sandbox reopening of Thailand’s most famous island now in effect

1 July, 2021, launch of the programme signals the beginning of Phuket’s and Thailand’s tourism revitalisation.

TAT Newsroom

 

 

Bangkok, 01 July, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to announce that Phuket’s highly anticipated reopening to tourism is now officially in effect, with the launch today of the Phuket Sandbox programme that welcomes fully vaccinated international visitors to the destination with no need to quarantine.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222330-phuket-sandbox-reopening-of-thailand’s-most-famous-island-now-in-effect/

 

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Thai resort island of Phuket reopens for tourists

 

The first foreign tourists arrive at the airport as Phuket reopens to overseas tourists, allowing foreigners fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to visit the resort island without quarantine, in Phuket, Thailand July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Vaccinated foreign tourists are due to fly into the Thai resort island of Phuket on Thursday, the first to return to its beaches and golf courses under a pilot programme to revive a tourism industry devastated by the novel coronavirus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222335-thai-resort-island-of-phuket-reopens-for-tourists/

 

 

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Bangkok: Met police crack motorcycle theft gang case - bikes ended up abroad for 7,000 baht

 

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Metropolitan police chief Pol Lt-Gen Phakkhapong Pongpettra along with station chiefs from several Bangkok jurisdictions announced the busting of a gang stealing motorcycles from the city and surrounding areas of the Thai capital. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222339-bangkok-met-police-crack-motorcycle-theft-gang-case-bikes-ended-up-abroad-for-7000-baht/

 

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Phuket’s natural attractions welcome limited numbers of tourists as island reopens Thursday

 

 

Four natural attractions in Phuket, under supervision of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, began welcoming limited numbers of tourists today (Thursday), as the resort island reopened to fully vaccinated foreign tourists and Thai returnees without entering a quarantine.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222347-phuket’s-natural-attractions-welcome-limited-numbers-of-tourists-as-island-reopens-thursday/

 

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Thai man arrested and 40 million in assets seized in Facebook "locked numbers" lottery fraud

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The Department of Special Investigation chief Pol Lt-Col Korawat Panpraphakorn and the head of the Government Lottery Office attended a press conference yesterday to announce the arrest of a Thai man who they say was defrauding the public and damaging the name of the GLO.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222352-thai-man-arrested-and-40-million-in-assets-seized-in-facebook-locked-numbers-lottery-fraud/

 

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Yet more delay! Plans to link Andaman to Gulf by train and motorway won't happen until 2029

 

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Ambitious plans for a so-called land bridge between the deep sea port in Ranong on the Andaman Sea and Chumporn on the Gulf of Thailand will be further delayed. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222355-yet-more-delay-plans-to-link-andaman-to-gulf-by-train-and-motorway-wont-happen-until-2029/

 

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Night-time curfew imposed in Thailand’s Songkhla province until July 29

 

In this handout photo from the Royal Thai Army taken and released on June 22, 2021, Covid-19 coronavirus patients of a local hospital are transferred by a military truck to be accommodated in a field hospital for coronavirus treatment facility in the southern province of Songkhla amidst Thailand’s third wave of infections. (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI ARMY / AFP)

 

A night-time curfew has been imposed in Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla, from yesterday (Wednesday) until July 29th, amid ongoing daily new infections of between 133 and 216 over the past week.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222357-night-time-curfew-imposed-in-thailand’s-songkhla-province-until-july-29/

 

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Thailand's 'paradise island' Phuket reopens to tourists

 

The first foreign tourists arrive at the airport as Phuket reopens to overseas tourists, allowing foreigners fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to visit the resort island without quarantine, in Phuket, Thailand July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva REFILE - REMOVING EXTRA SENTENCE

 

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Thursday, the first visitors to its beaches and golf courses under a pilot programme designed to revive a tourism industry devastated by the pandemic.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222335-thai-resort-island-of-phuket-reopens-for-tourists/?do=findComment&comment=16614101

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Third phase of co-pay scheme kicks off with wide usage

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Users reporting issues with the Pao Tung application on the first day of the third phase of the co-pay scheme, are being reminded that they must verify their identity using the program’s face scan function, the Krungthai NEXT application or at Krungthai Bank branches and ATMs.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222392-third-phase-of-co-pay-scheme-kicks-off-with-wide-usage/

 

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PM urges people in Phuket to work together to ensure success of “sandbox”

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, today (Thursday) called on all sectors on the resort island of Phuket to help make the tourism “sandbox” pilot project a success.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222393-pm-urges-people-in-phuket-to-work-together-to-ensure-success-of-“sandbox”/

 

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Mahidol-GPO’s human trials of its COVID-19 vaccine show promising results

 

 

The first phase of human trials of Thailand’s vaccine candidate, jointly developed domestically by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) and the Tropical Medicine Faculty of Mahidol University, has produced a promising human response in the volunteers, according to Prof. Dr. Pannee Pitisutthitham, acting head of the vaccine centre of the faculty.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222395-mahidol-gpo’s-human-trials-of-its-covid-19-vaccine-show-promising-results/

 

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Phuket Airport measures under the Phuket Sandbox

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Being the first reception point for foreign arrivals participating in the Phuket Sandbox, Phuket Airport has put in place a range of stringent measures to ensure the health and safety of the province’s visitors and suppression of COVID-19.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1222406-phuket-airport-measures-under-the-phuket-sandbox/