TP entry - how can this make sense?

[HashBrownHarry]

People travelling from UK where yesterday's Covid cases were 88,000 can rock up, 'test and go'.

 

But any passport holder that's double vaxxed travelling from anywhere in the entire African continent must endure 14 days locked in hotel room.

 

UK to go on Thailand red list?

 

Hmmm....

[Gottfrid]

16 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

UK to go on Thailand red list?

 

Sounds feasible! Would also be the right decision under current circumstances. 

[HashBrownHarry]

3 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Sounds feasible! Would also be the right decision under current circumstances. 

Correct, i agree.

 

However it's highly unlikely that UK and other european countries will NOT be discriminated against as Thailand try to open the country.

 

 

[richard_smith237]

IF anyone is vaccinated, test RT-PCR Covid-19 negative before flight, then test RT-PCR Covid-19 negative at ‘Test & Go’ on arrival why should they have to quarantine at all, it doesn’t matter what country they are travelling in from..... 

 

As much as I hate to admit it, Test & Go is a good system and a solid compromise on permitting travel while maintaining a level of control just incase an arrival tests positive.

 

The ‘additional’ quarantine requirements of those from African nations is an knee-jerk reaction and possibly a little racist while maintaining eased requirements of those from other ‘key’ nations that have high covid numbers is a decision based firmly in economics. 

 

 

Ultimately ’Test & Go’ already does as much as is needed.

 

 

 

[HashBrownHarry]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

IF anyone is vaccinated, test RT-PCR Covid-19 negative before flight, then test RT-PCR Covid-19 negative at ‘Test & Go’ on arrival why should they have to quarantine at all, it doesn’t matter what country they are travelling in from..... 

Totally agree, that's my point.

 

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

possibly a little racist

100%

[Oblomov]

In reality it's quite plain that the latest variant is set to dominate all western countries very quickly, so picking out nations like UK, Denmark, France, Germany, USA... is both futile and ignores the fact that splendid isolation is impossoble for obvious reasons. 

 

If this is to the dominant strain, and it certainly seems it will be from all projections, then the faster higher infections could leave in their wake, higher natural immunity as other strains did, then better to stay calm. 

 

As UK is one of the most heavily vaccinated and  'boosted' nations (750,000 boosters yestersay alone) then all of those to whom vaccine is the key, had better hope that the Europeam model succeeds as variants can't be stopped, only delayed. 

[Oblomov]

And then the next variant will hit elsewhere. And the next....

 

Thailand needs to revive important economic sectors so that the wider economy can be revived and Thais reclaim an ability to get their lives back. The Pass with Test and Go works and will not be the way variants get into Thailand.

 

Porous land borders will be the way the strain enters and probably already has. 

 

US/UK/Europe are developing and  supplying vaccines, donated and at cost, so I wouldn't expect national governments to be as petty and timid as some are,  as the facts are plain. This is everyone's problem and the cyclical nature of outbreaks will ignore no region.