Dr Kusak said people should be more worried about domestic arrivals travelling to Phuket. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon has confirmed that the Phuket Sandbox tourist now confirmed as infected with COVID-19 was already fully vaccinated with Sinopharm.

 

However, Dr Kusak urged the public not to panic over international arrivals bringing the virus to Phuket.

 

“Worry more about domestic arrivals,” he said.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/infected-sandbox-tourist-vaccinated-with-sinopharm-80606.php

 

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sinopharm suppose to be one of the better once.

for the poorer performing vax the UAE started to do the 3rd jab with some better quality vax

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

Worry more about domestic arrivals,” he said.

He's right about that. The requirements for domestic arrivals are very lax in comparison. 

Tourists having a vaccination, mostly having the lower efficacy Chinese jabs, will not prevent them from getting infected by the locals. The extensive testing regime performed on this select group of people is bound to uncover more cases as they interact with the population in Phuket, and may be kept quiet as it will make extremely bad headlines. This fellow brought it with him.

 

I wonder if this unfortunate tourist is now forcefully detained in a Covid hospital, field hospital, room, or other quarantine facility, at his expense, spending his Phuket sandbox holiday separated from his family or travelling companions alone until he recovers.

“The other 13 passengers on the flight have been considered high risk and taken to quarantine at an alternative local quarantine [ALQ] venue for 14 days,” Dr Kusak added.

 

All the passengers of the entire flight are now under quarantine.

Why would anyone jump through all the hoops and risk coming here for a holiday?

 

15 minutes ago, Gold Star said:

I wonder if this unfortunate tourist is now forcefully detained in a Covid hospital, field hospital, room, or other quarantine facility, at his expense, spending his Phuket sandbox holiday separated from his family or travelling companions alone until he recovers.

apparently those on his flight are now quarantined in ASQ hotels 

 

They said members of his "group" which was a deflection and a lie and an attempt to cover up what will happen to you if you are involved in such an incident  

Tested on Saturday and did get the result on Tuesday night ??? This means that you

are locked up in your hotel room for 3 days.

19 minutes ago, dutch54 said:

Tested on Saturday and did get the result on Tuesday night ??? This means that you

are locked up in your hotel room for 3 days.

Nope, rubbish reporting as usual.  Only in this story was Saturday July 6th.

Here are some interesting reports from CNBC and The Standrad in Hong Kong. Makes you wonder if Thailand made a huge mistake.

 

Five vaccinated countries with high Covid rates rely on China vaccines (cnbc.com)

 

Five of six vaccinated countries with high coronavirus infections use Chinese hots, study finds | The Standard

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“Worry more about domestic arrivals,” he said.

Yes indeed.

They are the ones that are carrying the Virus all over Thailand because they are not Vaccinated, and lax procedures for them to enter Phuket will bring in the Delta Variant for sure.

1 hour ago, Gold Star said:

“The other 13 passengers on the flight have been considered high risk and taken to quarantine at an alternative local quarantine [ALQ] venue for 14 days,” Dr Kusak added.

 

All the passengers of the entire flight are now under quarantine.

Why would anyone jump through all the hoops and risk coming here for a holiday?

 

What about the crew?

6 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

What about the crew?

The crew stay on board for these flights which are typically triangular routes. So off to BKK shortly after landing in Phuket and then back to Dubai.

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

What about the crew?

When passenger got tested positive they already were back to UAE.

7 hours ago, dutch54 said:

Tested on Saturday and did get the result on Tuesday night ??? This means that you

are locked up in your hotel room for 3 days.

Maybe they should be using the new testing equipment developed in Western Australia which only takes 30 seconds to annualize if you have covid-19 already being exported to European countries. 

8 hours ago, Gold Star said:

“The other 13 passengers on the flight have been considered high risk and taken to quarantine at an alternative local quarantine [ALQ] venue for 14 days,” Dr Kusak added.

 

All the passengers of the entire flight are now under quarantine.

Why would anyone jump through all the hoops and risk coming here for a holiday?

 

Selfish?

Ignorant?

Why the good doctor has to disclose which vaccine the positive case patient was inoculated with so long it was approved by Thailand for the CoE.  What happen when it was a Pfizer vaccine?

He had been fully vaccinated with Sinopharm in October-November last year,” Dr Kusak said. 

 

On 14 September 2020, the United Arab Emirates approved the vaccine for front-line workers following interim Phase III trials.[47] In December, the country registered BBIBP-CorV after it reviewed the results of the interim analysis.[33] In March, a small number of people who have reduced immunity against diseases, chronic illnesses, or belong to high-risk groups have been given a third booster dose.[106] In May, due to concerns about effectiveness, Bahrain planned to give a third booster dose to some groups at risk, and the United Arab Emirates extended its third booster dose to anyone who had received the second dose more than six months ago.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBIBP-CorV

 

Wonder if he got that 3rd dose?  And if Thailand should require a 3rd dose of Sinopharm for a COE.

 

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19 hours ago, webfact said:

However, Dr Kusak urged the public not to panic over international arrivals bringing the virus to Phuket

I spat my coffee out.

20 hours ago, Gold Star said:

Tourists having a vaccination, mostly having the lower efficacy Chinese jabs, will not prevent them from getting infected by the locals. The extensive testing regime performed on this select group of people is bound to uncover more cases as they interact with the population in Phuket, and may be kept quiet as it will make extremely bad headlines. This fellow brought it with him.

 

I wonder if this unfortunate tourist is now forcefully detained in a Covid hospital, field hospital, room, or other quarantine facility, at his expense, spending his Phuket sandbox holiday separated from his family or travelling companions alone until he recovers.

with his family friends and everyone on the plane

Classic. Face over everything else. It’s something I’ll never understand. Of course the ch!nk vaccines are just saline solution. 

On 7/8/2021 at 10:41 AM, Upnotover said:

Nope, rubbish reporting as usual.  Only in this story was Saturday July 6th.

In the meantime they corrected it:

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* Correction: The man arrived on Tuesday, not Saturday. Our apologies. The error is regretted.

 

On 7/8/2021 at 2:30 PM, Gold Star said:

“The other 13 passengers on the flight have been considered high risk and taken to quarantine at an alternative local quarantine [ALQ] venue for 14 days,” Dr Kusak added.

 

All the passengers of the entire flight are now under quarantine.

Why would anyone jump through all the hoops and risk coming here for a holiday?

 

Some may have fallen for the propaganda spewing forth from the usual sources.

On 7/8/2021 at 11:02 AM, ChipButty said:

What about the crew?

On Qatar air arriving to Phuket on 1. July I saw the crew leave the airport and probably go to some crew hotel for the night.

There was also a passive crew as passengers to fly the aircraft back to Qatar.

 

But of course it could be different for Emirates Airways.

On 7/8/2021 at 2:21 PM, Gold Star said:

at his expense, spending his Phuket sandbox holiday separated from his family or travelling companions alone until he recovers.

He shouldn't feel bad.  He is mandated to have Covid insurance so it's not out of his pocket.  But his 14 "travelling companions who have been rounded up and forcefully quarantined?  I bet that's on their own dime.  What a vacation.  Anyone who doesn't game these possibilities out in advance shouldn't complain when they find themselves incarcerated in a high price hotel room watching Netflix and eating junk food left outside their doors for 2 weeks completely ruining their vacation.

On 7/8/2021 at 2:21 PM, Gold Star said:

Tourists having a vaccination, mostly having the lower efficacy Chinese jabs, will not prevent them from getting infected by the locals. The extensive testing regime performed on this select group of people is bound to uncover more cases as they interact with the population in Phuket, and may be kept quiet as it will make extremely bad headlines. This fellow brought it with him.

 

I wonder if this unfortunate tourist is now forcefully detained in a Covid hospital, field hospital, room, or other quarantine facility, at his expense, spending his Phuket sandbox holiday separated from his family or travelling companions alone until he recovers.

He and 14 others are stuck in an expensive quarantine hotel.  They've requested to leave and go home.

 

Horrible vacation.

 

Side note, Singapore has stopped recognizing Sinovac as a vaccine for entry.  Sinopharm wont be far off.

 

Plain Junk!  

On 7/8/2021 at 9:30 AM, Gold Star said:

“The other 13 passengers on the flight have been considered high risk and taken to quarantine at an alternative local quarantine [ALQ] venue for 14 days,” Dr Kusak added.

Another brilliant example for the complete lack of any common sense of the Thai authorities in charge of the Phuket Scambox. There were 13 other fully vaccinated, negative tested and hence safe passengers on the flight, and all were thrown for 14 days into ASQ, which they have to pay themselves. And this, while hundred thousands untested ncommuters in Bangkok use BTS and MRT every together together with dozens infected people. 

 

Another case of Thai double standards and, yes again, of xenophobia! If they were serious, they'd throw all passengers of BTS and MRT in quarantine, or, less paranoid, use common sense and would leave the safe foreigners having their holidays.

 

"Considered high risk"....my ass, how pathetic!

The Phuket sandbox is an experiment, and as we all know, more experiments fail than are successful.

Phuket may continue for a while, but Delta and Lambda may cause it to become a failure.  After all I do not

think of India, or Brazil and Peru to be COVID success cases, unless you are the virus.  The pandemic continues...

Geezer