TAT set to announce re-opening of 7 more provinces

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Bangkok sandbox will be interesting, but it must have a sa-mart name..... " Bangkok shop til you drop"? Or "Bangkok spend to the very end?" 

Spend spend spend now get your reward in the afterlife....

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, Guderian said:

As soon as they lift the restrictions and start to welcome foreigners one more, the daily new case load will take off again (assuming that the decrease we're currently seeing isn't simply being gerrymandered), regardless of how many people have been vaccinated. The UK, US and Israel all show this and, not least of all, so does Phuket. The Thai government now regards the criterion for reopening to foreign tourists as having 70% of the adult population with one jab, so not in any way fully-protected. This means that the inevitable rise in new cases will result in far more deaths than the advanced economies are seeing and, unless the government is willing to accept many hundreds of deaths every day, they will just end up banging the door shut again and returning to some sort of lockdown. Be patient, get the people properly vaccinated, and then try reopening, because the current plan isn't going to work well.

It currently stands at about 30%, the goalposts have been moved again.

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, Bkktodd said:

And yet the fully vaccinated are being penalized that want to go home to see thai families with EXPENSIVE Asq/sandbox/covid tests prepaid /insurance / …..????

Video call is free these days.

[Sydebolle]

And yes, how nice to welcome Pipat Ratchakitprakarn back from his summer break ......... 

[smiggley]

No point in opening Pattaya if all the bars and entertainment venues are closed.

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, smiggley said:

No point in opening Pattaya if all the bars and entertainment venues are closed.

My 6-year-old is too young for the bars and some entertainment venues. But we'll be coming for the Hard Rock, beach, water parks and restaurants, so it's great news.

[internationalism]

"Koh Man Nork"

that's a private island.

Never heard about it before.

Interesting, to whom it belongs.

There is only 1 resort, withe the cheapest option is 10k per night 

[martin81]

IT WILL NOT help the tourism industry very much if vaccinated people stiil need four expensive PCR tests and risk of two weeks quarantine(if someone with positive test sat near you on flight) and at least some kind of quarantine in most of the opening provinces.

Even in Phuket with only 12 hours quarantine there came very few tourists after reopening.

 

Number of tourists in Thailand rose from around 6000 in June to 18000 in July after Phuket reopening.

 

Before Covid there were 3 to 4 million of tourists per month. The 18000 in July is less than 1 percent of that.

[sanuk711]

On 8/30/2021 at 11:44 AM, webfact said:

In the north east Bung Kan, Nong Khai, Udon Thani

I live in Udon Thani--the BKK group are building a huge extension to their hospital here at the moment--or were- The police shut it down last week after 17 of the 23 workforce tested positive.

 

With the bars still not allowed to open , as Beer attracts Covid, I guess the only people coming here would be those with wives that were outside when the shutters came down.

[sniggie]

On 8/30/2021 at 12:56 PM, wensiensheng said:

Certainly the educational needs of their children hasn’t panicked them. No signs of those opening, even in Phuket!

Came home from shopping with my son yesterday to be told that schools in our province were opening today, 

[sniggie]

On 8/30/2021 at 12:56 PM, wensiensheng said:

Certainly the educational needs of their children hasn’t panicked them. No signs of those opening, even in Phuket!

Came home from shopping with my son yesterday to be told that schools in our province were opening today, 

[brewsterbudgen]

33 minutes ago, sniggie said:

Came home from shopping with my son yesterday to be told that schools in our province were opening today, 

No sign of schools opening in Bangkok ????

[SantiSuk]

Bueng Kan reported 3 infections today and Nong Khai 23. Most other provinces in the North East (now coming down quite dramatically but there are several still with over 100 daily) would give their eye teeth to have Bueng Kan and Nong Khai's apparent 'challenges'.