Pattaya: September plan to reopen resort to tourism is OFF - Koh Larn sealed off after 6 infections

[webfact]

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Plans to open Thailand's leading seaside resort of Pattaya to tourism have been shelved indefinitely.

 

The plan was to open up on September 1st. The TAT has now abandoned this idea, Pattaya's mayor Sontaya Khunplome told Manager yesterday.

 

This came as 6 cases of Covid-19 were reported on Koh Larn off the coast of Pattaya. 

 

Access to the island had already been severely restricted but the latest cases dealt a blow to its limited reopening, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

All six cases are in hospital care and the mayor said that Pattaya city would be conducting a pro-active testing program of residents there. 

 

The island is being sealed off completely again for 14 days.

 

The TAT have not set a date when Pattaya can reopen to tourism. 

 

Chonburi reported 1,318 new Covid-19 cases on Monday with clusters of between 10 and 18 at Chicony Electronics in Muang district, Mitsubishi, Italian Thai (Thai Oil project in Sri Racha and Italian Thai in Bang Lamung.

 

A total of 199 infections were within families and 267 from the workplace. 

 

Mayor Sontaya has consistently said that vaccination was the key to the reopening of Pattaya and a batch of Sinopharm has been bought out of city coffers costing 88 million baht.

 

Despite this his hand has been forced by the infection numbers and events on Koh Larn meaning that Pattaya will continue to be a ghost town for the foreseeable future. 

 

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[Cake Monster]

At last ! Some sanity prevails.

Without those Vaccines and a whole lot more, the resulting mayhem would have been the complete demise of Pattaya

[Gottfrid]

43 minutes ago, webfact said:

The plan was to open up on September 1st. The TAT has now abandoned this idea

But what happened? This time the coin fell down in the box already 20 days before. Have they changed the decision makers or employed new spin doctors?

[HashBrownHarry]

oh dear....

[Rampant Rabbit]

Oh deary deary me, didnt see that coming, not from 100km away using the Hubble Telescope set on full  power with the lights  turned on.

[Rimmer]

A troll post has been removed

[Caldera]

Say it ain't so! That plan was doomed from the start.

[Guderian]

Israel is imposing restrictions again as Covid is getting out of control there. It's beginning to make me wonder if the world will ever get back to anything remotely like what we used to think of as normal. Thailand should be making a Plan B, whereby the summer months in the northern hemisphere, where most tourists originate, will become the new High Season, and the winter months, when Covid and flu will likely be at their worst, will be the Low Season and mainly for people who are able to spend a few months on holiday, so that travel restrictions and possible quarantine for 7 to 10 days aren't too disruptive to their visit. Hopefully, it would never be needed, but they really should look at the alternatives and not keep all their eggs in the one proverbial basket.

[ehs818]

The ONLY sane solution to dealing with Covid in Thailand is to fully lockdown the populatoin and vaccinate, both done simultaneously! Until that happens there will no return to any type of normal again in this country. Tourist will not return and risk their lives simply because the monied powers that be say so!

[redwood1]

Koh Larn was open but I bet no one came......So I guess to save face they decided to close again..... If you remember Koh Larn has repeatedly said to be covid free over and over and over......But now they pop up?? 

[redwood1]

3 minutes ago, ehs818 said:

The ONLY sane solution to dealing with Covid in Thailand is to fully lockdown the populatoin and vaccinate, both done simultaneously! Until that happens there will no return to any type of normal again in this country. Tourist will not return and risk their lives simply because the monied powers that be say so!

Not every one wants a vax...

[RichardColeman]

I've been stuck outside Thailand away form the wife for 16 months, BUT if they shut Thailand down until Jan 1 and inject what they can and open up without hoops 100% then I'm ok with the delay, at least we can plan.

 

It's the not knowing anything definite that's doing everyone's heads in !

[redwood1]

1 minute ago, ehs818 said:

And I guess that not everyone wants to live. OK, don't trust science.  Instead you can choose to believe the partisan idiots on TV that don't hold medical degrees. Your life, your choice. Enjoy the MAGA day!

Who said me...I was talking about others...

[bluemoonpattaya]

Getting back to normality lol ....  This is the new normality, get use to it......

[eastendanto]

28 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Israel is imposing restrictions again as Covid is getting out of control there. It's beginning to make me wonder if the world will ever get back to anything remotely like what we used to think of as normal. Thailand should be making a Plan B, whereby the summer months in the northern hemisphere, where most tourists originate, will become the new High Season, and the winter months, when Covid and flu will likely be at their worst, will be the Low Season and mainly for people who are able to spend a few months on holiday, so that travel restrictions and possible quarantine for 7 to 10 days aren't too disruptive to their visit. Hopefully, it would never be needed, but they really should look at the alternatives and not keep all their eggs in the one proverbial basket.

Can only make a Plan B if you have a Plan A

 

[eastendanto]

4 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

At last ! Some sanity prevails.

Without those Vaccines and a whole lot more, the resulting mayhem would have been the complete demise of Pattaya

you mean it's not complete yet? I think it's more likely to be a Phoenix rising from the ashes some way down the line

[RandolphGB]

36 minutes ago, ehs818 said:

The ONLY sane solution to dealing with Covid in Thailand is to fully lockdown the populatoin and vaccinate, both done simultaneously! Until that happens there will no return to any type of normal again in this country. Tourist will not return and risk their lives simply because the monied powers that be say so!

Covid cases will be around for generations to come. So your plan is to lockdown China-style indefinitely for years to come. But you think you're the sane one...

[Boedog]

I didn't know Pattaya was an island, never mind the Sandbox is still good

[Donbuie3]

52 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

Not every one wants a vax...

Tough. Look at the press snd see how many avowed anti-Vaccisers won’t be drawing breath any longer.

[VBF]

45 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

Who said me...I was talking about others...

The "others" in question, i.e. those who "don't want vax" as you put it, are hardly worthy of consideration. They can voluntarily stay home, alone, forever.

Their choice.

[sungod]

1 hour ago, ehs818 said:

The ONLY sane solution to dealing with Covid in Thailand is to fully lockdown the populatoin and vaccinate, both done simultaneously! Until that happens there will no return to any type of normal again in this country. Tourist will not return and risk their lives simply because the monied powers that be say so!

Hope your donating to the food handouts then

[sungod]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

I've been stuck outside Thailand away form the wife for 16 months, BUT if they shut Thailand down until Jan 1 and inject what they can and open up without hoops 100% then I'm ok with the delay, at least we can plan.

 

It's the not knowing anything definite that's doing everyone's heads in !

Serious question, how are you stuck outside? I know plenty who have made the trip, some twice.

[Golden Triangle]

9 minutes ago, sungod said:

Serious question, how are you stuck outside? I know plenty who have made the trip, some twice.

He didn't reply the last time someone asked him the same question, so don't hold your breath ????

[Spock]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

Not every one wants a vax...

In that case, not everybody wants to again welcome tourists nor do tourists want to come to Thailand.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The TAT have not set a date when Pattaya can reopen to tourism

Sometime 2022 would be a good bet.

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

I've been stuck outside Thailand away form the wife for 16 months, BUT if they shut Thailand down until Jan 1 and inject what they can and open up without hoops 100% then I'm ok with the delay, at least we can plan.

 

It's the not knowing anything definite that's doing everyone's heads in !

Sorry for your situation,I was away for 9 months (although planned 7 anyway),but forget ‘planning' the way you imply it. There is no beginning,middle and end to this pandemic as the variants have illustrated, especially not for Thailand as their competences also do. The ability to plan for and deal with complex ,varying circumstances is simply way beyond them. They got lucky initially and mistook that for competence- vaccination was the nearest thing to a solution and they were delinquent- still are. Resign yourself to further uncertainty or once vaccinated grasp the nettle and return,but given boosters are looking likely that will not be without risk. 

[DjSilver]

This is just ridiculous. We foreigners doesn't care about the covid spread in Thailand at the moment. It is still 10 times from international standard so that means it can be more than 220k new cases every day and most foreigners wouldn't be worried or care. It is the ridiculous restrictions in Thailand that makes foreigners don't want to go to Thailand. So skip mandatory face masks, open malls, parks, restaurants and gyms and we will come.

[lesmac]

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Not every one wants a vax...

I agree and the post below has know right in our freedom of choice. I have suffered blod clots for 7 years so why the <deleted> would I risk taking an untested vax that is known to cause blood clots

[HashBrownHarry]

58 minutes ago, sungod said:

Serious question, how are you stuck outside? I know plenty who have made the trip, some twice.

YIp, no one is stuck outside, i've returned 4 times in the last year.

 

You can even come VE.

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Not every one wants a vax...

Bingo! And there you have, in a few words, exactly why the pandemic will drag on indefinitely. The UK is a prime example of what can happen when the vast majority - around 80% of people - are fully vaccinated. Just about everything opened up, and although some expected 200,000 cases a day to follow that hasn't happened. Far from it. And at the same time there have been several news items recently of families reporting that one or more of their members had expressed regret in the days before they died that they had not been vaccinated. Still, everyone has the right to play Russian Roulette with their life if they want to.