Bkk Brian Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said: Effective today, Chanthaburi has banned all sales of alcohol until further notice. Including all stores. They state this will help stop Covid-19 and parties they claim are fueling more cases. https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1445971173490118660 The order was due to the Covid-19 clusters found among drinkers that had been gathered in various places in the province. The governor said that the officials are currently unable to control the spreading of the virus.Therefore, the sale, distribution, exchange of all types of liquor and alcohol in department stores, shopping centers, community malls General stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants or any gathering place is prohibited, said the governor. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40007173 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapson Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Deleted. if in doubt say nowt! Edited October 7, 2021 by sapson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 is 1 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said: The order was due to the Covid-19 clusters found among drinkers that had been gathered in various places in the province. The governor said that the officials are currently unable to control the spreading of the virus.Therefore, the sale, distribution, exchange of all types of liquor and alcohol in department stores, shopping centers, community malls General stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants or any gathering place is prohibited, said the governor. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40007173 Everybody who want drink can get alcohol! Mom&pop shops sell that anyway. I think even governor not spit in glass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 is 1 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Denmark,Sweden and Finland stop give Moderna vaccine to under 30 years old men! Reason is possible side effect's. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-denmark-public-health-health-453163d8f93618fde90c06d3474921a0 Edited October 7, 2021 by 2 is 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cormanr7 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 So lots of people want to know what the number of tests/day is. A bit of research leads to https://github.com/djay/covidthailand#testing where we find the PCR tests/day. These in turn come from https://www3.dmsc.moph.go.th. So for the last two weeks (data updated to Oct. 2nd) we get the following (see table). More interesting data on the latter site with details of the accredited labs for COVID PCR-tests (now more than 350 though on some days they manage less than 30,000 tests !). Now the fun starts: the number of positive tests is a lot lower than the officially reported number of confirmed cases. This trend started roughly mid July and early September the number of positives was some 33% lower than the confirmed cases (see figs). The github site has a few pages on the possible reasons for the discrepancy which you can read yourself but there is no clear answer. I did note that some of the accredited hospitals potentially use pooled samples which in theory allow detection of more than one case per PCR test. Looking at the table another unexpected observation: the number of tests/day varies by a factor of almost two, yet the positive rate is in a narrow range (15-18%). Unfortunately there seems to be little explanation on the moph site what the data actually represent it is just given as 'date/positive/tests'. There are loads of other data on the github site. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 3 hours ago, jacko45k said: I don't see tourist dependent provinces going along with that idea.....the place mentioned, Chanthaburi, isn't a big tourist attraction anyhow.... Would have to disagree with you as it is a jumping off place to head to many places and does quite well with tourism. Many places to see and things to do before jumping off to the islands Koh Chang, Koh Poda, and Koh Kut, as well as having several of the border crossings with Cambodia. Ergo why they probably are worried about cases expanding. It is not that far from Bangkok, Pattaya or Ang Thong Chantaburi has had 11,664 Covid cases so far during the Covid pandemic, and with 264 cases reported yesterday has a reason to tighten up things in their view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherrytreeview Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Bkk Brian said: Effective today, Chanthaburi has banned all sales of alcohol until further notice. Including all stores. They state this will help stop Covid-19 and parties they claim are fueling more cases. https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1445971173490118660 As @ThailandRyan has mentioned, this to me is just unbelievable in a developing country. Anyone i know who has been a long term visitor to Thailand, is just going to give the place a wide berth. What happens when the packed gogo's of Nana Plaza and LK Metro get going. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olmate Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Would have to disagree with you as it is a jumping off place to head to many places and does quite well with tourism. Many places to see and things to do before jumping off to the islands Koh Chang, Koh Poda, and Koh Kut, as well as having several of the border crossings with Cambodia. Ergo why they probably are worried about cases expanding. It is not that far from Bangkok, Pattaya or Ang Thong Chantaburi has had 11,664 Covid cases so far during the Covid pandemic, and with 264 cases reported yesterday has a reason to tighten up things in their view. Guess the gem dealers from those far away places are not to blame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadilo Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Guess the UK was following my data, posts and ranking table ???? UK travel red list cut to just seven countries https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58833088 Edited October 7, 2021 by Kadilo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 13 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: Would have to disagree with you as it is a jumping off place to head to many places and does quite well with tourism. Many places to see and things to do before jumping off to the islands Koh Chang, Koh Poda, and Koh Kut, For me it was simply a drive through place to get to them. The only attraction I recall was some temple up some ruddy great exhausting hill, very difficult to get to and the type of thing off my list these days..... hardly doing much to worry Phuket and Samui. I guess high numbers of Covid are due to the border proximity.... yes I have used those too, but I hardly even knew which Thai province I was in to simply get my passport stamped again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 From 4am on Monday 11th October, Thailand will no longer be on the red list for entering England. Also, Thailand will be added to the list of countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination. Thailand travel advice https://gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/coronavirus… #Thailand 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, anchadian said: From 4am on Monday 11th October, Thailand will no longer be on the red list for entering England. Also, Thailand will be added to the list of countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination. Thailand travel advice https://gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/coronavirus… #Thailand Good news, I see they’re not accepting Sinovac or Sinopharm as one of those approved vaccines though. No surprise there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Now lets wait and see if they are moved down to Level 3 for the US instead of being at Level 4, which will make it more amenable for folks to travel here. However, the current restrictions on quarantine will still pose a problem for many folks as 1 week in quarantine, be it a Sandbox or not for vaccinated folks and the multiple testing via PCR will still keep people from coming if they only have a 2 week vacation. However, the caveat here is that the sandbox destinations need to be laid out for all to see so they can decide if it is affordable for them, if the locations are amenable to local travel without a guide and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 COVID-19: Thailand reports 11,140 new coronavirus cases, 116 deaths File photo: REUTERS Thailand on Friday ( October 8 ) reported 11,140 new COVID-19 cases, 9,933 recoveries and 116 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234591-covid-19-thailand-reports-11140-new-coronavirus-cases-116-deaths/ //CLOSED// /Admin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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