Popular Post snoop1130 Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 Photo: The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Thailand’s National Communicable Disease Committee (NCDC) approved, today (Wednesday), the Public Health Ministry’s plan to classify COVID-19 as an endemic disease in four months, starting on July 1st, if things go according to plans. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that the plan is based on the principle that the good health of the people and the national economy must go together, which is the policy being adopted in several countries. To achieve this goal, he said relevant agencies must put in place several measures to be implemented during the four months, such as vaccination management, medical services for the infected, COVID-19 monitoring and screening measures, prevention and containment of the disease, travel restrictions and legal and social measures. Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/plan-to-make-covid-19-endemic-disease-in-thailand-from-july-1-approved/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-03-09 - Aetna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dmaxdan Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 The face mask manufacturers won't be happy. 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohe60 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) Well, Mr. Charnvirakul still speaking about travel restrictions while neighboring and competing countries are starting to open their borders. Latest candidate is Malaysia, which will drop many (not all) restrictions by April 1st. From that date on fully vaccinated travellers "only" need - a RT-PCR test not older than 48 before departure - a RAT (rapid antigen test) performed by a professional within 24 hrs after arriving in Malaysia - download a spy-app (tracking app) Many COVID related restrictions will be dumped, but the mandatory use of masks remains in place. The pressure on Thailand is increasing..... First the Philippines, very soon Vietnam and then, on fools day, Malaysia.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-reopen-border-fully-apr-1-2551491 Edited March 9, 2022 by Rohe60 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SmokeandIce Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 10 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said: The face mask manufacturers won't be happy. Nor the Thailand Covid insurance companies 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Excel Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 So after 1st July, with presumably all restrictions lifted, the government can look forward to increased demos by students and others again. I think not. This mob will find some excuse, made up riots, to continue the state of emergency until after the elections next year. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikke1959 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 And how about the rest of the world????? Thailand can make it an endemic, but maybe other countries don't follow and so do tourists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Enzian Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 It seems they still see their mandate as making this as complicated as possible under the circumstances. I hope I'm wrong. I just hit the 10th day since the start of symptoms, with a negative ATK test in contrast to the clearly positive one two days ago. After two years of craziness and worry it was an anticlimax, almost a nothing-burger. Mild with a capital M. But it happened after one AZ, two Pfizer, and a Moderna. And I'm over 80. Those older Thais have a choice, and I wish the outreach people luck. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sticky Rice Balls Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, SmokeandIce said: Nor the Thailand Covid insurance companies this one being the cheese as thais have been trying to instill this policy BEFORE covid 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hioctane Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, ikke1959 said: And how about the rest of the world????? Thailand can make it an endemic, but maybe other countries don't follow and so do tourists Many countries are already starting to. Thailand wouldn’t be the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandiRona Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Hahaha July??? All these remianing rules would be gone for most of the world by May at the most. Not surprised that Thailand acts slows..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangnomore Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) Illiterate/ignorant officials do not know the meaning of word endemic. It simply refers to species being limited to a geographic locality. They will make a disease local to some area by a decree? Amazing Thailand. Edited March 9, 2022 by farangnomore typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kotsak Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 Did they ask the virus????? 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemianfish Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Good to hear they have a crystal ball and can plan ahead for months. A lot of people will still refuse the vaccine. I know much of my wife's family will refuse vaccination, including her parents. We are triple vaxxed here in the states. This story says a lot about nothing. Hopefully, restrictions and all that go away by next winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post it is what it is Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 5 hours ago, RandiRona said: Hahaha July??? All these remianing rules would be gone for most of the world by May at the most. Not surprised that Thailand acts slows..... thailand has been behind the curve all the way through covid, no reason for it to catch up now. july sounds about right. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 11 hours ago, snoop1130 said: To achieve this goal, he said relevant agencies must put in place several measures to be implemented during the four months, such as vaccination management, medical services for the infected, COVID-19 monitoring and screening measures, prevention and containment of the disease, travel restrictions and legal and social measures. Are they not in place already? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 11 hours ago, Dmaxdan said: The face mask manufacturers won't be happy. I'll still wear mine to keep out the PM2.5... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted March 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 7 hours ago, RandiRona said: Hahaha July??? All these remianing rules would be gone for most of the world by May at the most. Not surprised that Thailand acts slows..... Thailand is 50 years behind the rest of the world in most things... this is fast for them. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Has anyone thought to tell the virus of this plan? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BKKBike09 Posted March 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 10 hours ago, Excel said: So after 1st July, with presumably all restrictions lifted, Whoa, steady on there cowboy! According to the original source article: "... life should be as normal as possible while the economy is recovering, said the public health minister adding, however, that even if COVID becomes an endemic disease, the population may still be required to wear face masks, avoid group gatherings, wash their hands often, undergo rapid antigen tests and get vaccinated to reduce the risk of severe cases." So ... basically same, same. But doubtless there'll be the usual doom-mongers who'll say we need to continue to take all possible precautions 'just in case', "think of other people" etc etc. I'm sick of it all. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooMuchTime Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Doomers punching the air in frustration over this news. Expect them to post in here about muh cases, muh deaths, muh pandemic. For those who are afraid of no restrictions, just get "fully vaccinated" and get your boosters even though you are fully vaccinated. Throw in double mask wearing for good measure. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted March 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 minute ago, TooMuchTime said: Doomers punching the air in frustration over this news. Expect them to post in here about muh cases, muh deaths, muh pandemic. For those who are afraid of no restrictions, just get "fully vaccinated" and get your boosters even though you are fully vaccinated. Throw in double mask wearing for good measure. Doomers? Have you been dreaming? I'm pretty sure most people want this implemented even sooner the same as the rest of the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siameaze Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Dream: A Plan: C Action: D- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paradise Pete Posted March 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, farangnomore said: Illiterate/ignorant officials do not know the meaning of word endemic. It simply refers to species being limited to a geographic locality. They will make a disease local to some area by a decree? Amazing Thailand. I think you're taking the word "area" too specifically. It doesn't only mean geographic area. Your own link gives this example: "the self-indulgence endemic in the film industry." In the case of infectious diseases, it's being used (not only by Thailand, but by epidemiologists around the world) to mean that cases are not out of control, but also not being wiped out. Colds are endemic, for example. This doesn't mean Covid won't still be dangerous, especially to the unvaccinated or immunocompromised, but simply that it's just something we'll have to live with. Edited March 10, 2022 by Paradise Pete 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai Visa Member 999999 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 8 hours ago, farangnomore said: Illiterate/ignorant officials do not know the meaning of word endemic. It simply refers to species being limited to a geographic locality. They will make a disease local to some area by a decree? Amazing Thailand. You didn't major in epidemiology. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyF Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I see. Offer some light at the end of the tunnel while changing nothing and leaving plenty of time for a U-turn/extension of restrictions if the peasants start revolting. Standard procedure for those using Covid as a tool of control. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thailand49 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I read just the other day June 1st, one would think that these measure would have been in place already which I said since 2020 instead of lock downs prepare! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swm59nj Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Do they have a crystal ball to know this will happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwest5829 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 10 hours ago, RandiRona said: Hahaha July??? All these remianing rules would be gone for most of the world by May at the most. Not surprised that Thailand acts slows..... Looks like one more year on my "O-A" as I extend in May. Then exit and re-enter on an "O" Visa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 4 hours ago, hotchilli said: Thailand is 50 years behind the rest of the world in most things... this is fast for them. You are very kind.. 50 years is an understatement.. ???? Mostly agrarian, just getting through the agricultural revolution. Jethro Tull would be seen as a magician. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyx Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 16 hours ago, Rohe60 said: Well, Mr. Charnvirakul still speaking about travel restrictions while neighboring and competing countries are starting to open their borders. Latest candidate is Malaysia, which will drop many (not all) restrictions by April 1st. From that date on fully vaccinated travellers "only" need - a RT-PCR test not older than 48 before departure - a RAT (rapid antigen test) performed by a professional within 24 hrs after arriving in Malaysia - download a spy-app (tracking app) Many COVID related restrictions will be dumped, but the mandatory use of masks remains in place. The pressure on Thailand is increasing..... First the Philippines, very soon Vietnam and then, on fools day, Malaysia.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-reopen-border-fully-apr-1-2551491 Still unacceptable measures if Covid is endemic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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