Phuket rallies to help Koh Lipe

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Essential relief efforts are underway to help those living on Koh Lipe, which is suffering heavily under the COVID-19 restrictions imposed earlier this month. Photo: Supplied

 

PHUKET: A group of local companies are rallying together to help people in need on the popular island of Koh Lipe, which has become yet another recent victim of COVID-19 restrictions.

 

The island, located in Satun province, close to the Malaysian border and over an hour from the mainland, went into an enforced lockdown on Aug 9. 

 

Koh Lipe remains entirely shut off to incoming or outgoing travel. No one is allowed to leave to go to the mainland, and there is an attempt to further discourage travel around the island itself using provincial public health authorities’ checkpoints and village-imposed quarantines.

 

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-rallies-to-help-koh-lipe-81203.php

 

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[Pattaya Spotter]

I thought I read in one report the island's population is over 70% vaccinated...so why the panic over a few cases...why get vaccinated then?