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Blue line is how many doses need to be administered per day to achieve the target of 70% by the end of the year. The bars are how many were administered.
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4 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:
Depending on how quickly you wish to return to UK, you could obtain covid extensions which will most likely be available untill borders open.
Right. I have a retirement extension, so I have plenty of options. I'd just prefer the OA if I can get it without too much hassle.
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Just now, DrJack54 said:
How did you last enter Thailand. Meaning what type of visa?
On an OA, but I couldn't leave to get stamped back in for another year so I had to get an extension.
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1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:
Non O-A doesn't tick many boxes at the moment.
The fact that it's multi entry for first year is a mute point as currently borders closed.
To obtain 2nd year you would need to leave Thailand and re-enter.
Finally you have the useless Thai health insurance and that would be ongoing if you then opted for extension. Also for extension the 800k would need to be in Thai bank
I'll need a new visa within a few months. If a way opens up to make a relatively painless return trip to the UK, I'll get an OA. It would be a year after that before I'd need to leave the country. Two years after getting the visa, I'd go back to the UK and get another one. During that two years the 800k is mine to do with as I please. It will be completely up to me how much I keep in my Thai accounts and how much I keep elsewhere.
It's just a choice. Other people prefer to do things differently.
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4 minutes ago, MadMac said:
In which Thailand do you live? Borders are virtually closed and even if you manage to slip through it becomes quite costly to get back in. Would rather keep the money in a Thai bank and do yearly extensions rather than seeing it disappearing in your home country by inflation out of control and negative interest rates. Maybe you could try it with Phuket next month and an O-A.....oh wait.... ????
That's cool. Everyone has their own preferred way of doing things.
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2 hours ago, MRToMRT said:
I agree, its like "what's the point of the O-A" if the O is so easy by comparison.
The advantage of the OA is that you only need to have 800k in a bank in your own country for a couple of months before you apply for the visa. Once you get the visa, you can go for two years without needing to get an extension or get a new visa. You don't need to lock up any money a Thai bank. The disadvantage is the insurance.
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2 minutes ago, tonray said:
Extensions in country have the same financial requirements as O visa extensions however which is the confusing element pkus additional insurance requirements
Yes, but you can go for two years without an extension. The OA visa is valid for one-year, no extensions required. The unusual aspect of it is that every time you leave the country during that first year, when you come back in you have another year added. So if you leave in the eleventh month, you have almost two years in total without needing an extension and without have had to shown any funds other than those that you showed at the beginning to get the visa.
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10 minutes ago, Tonypandy said:
Do OA visa holders have to have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account?
No, you have to have it in a bank account in your own country before you apply for the visa. It has to be there for either one or three months, I can't remember which. After that you can take the money out and do what you want with it. You don't need any money in Thailand at any point.
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10 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
All visas eventually expire, with the OA you convert to what's called an extension of stay if you stay in country and then get a reentry permit to keep it alive if you leave. I have had OA visas for years. The first 2 I used the multiple entries so I did not need to do an extension and got 2 years out of them. When I decided to stay at the end of the 1st year on my last OA visa I needed to do an extension of stay based on the OA visa I had. You still have monetary requirements and insurance requirements to show in country on an extension of stay based on the original OA.
Right, but my point is that you can get two years in Thailand by just showing that you have had 800k in a bank account for (from memory) one month. After that there is no requirement to show anything further for two years. At the end of those two years you can leave the country and repeat the process.
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1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:
Once your in the country and go to do an extension of stay based on the OA you still have financial requirements to show immigration as well as the insurance they added in 2019 on October 31st.
The OA is valid for one year with no extensions. If you leave the country in the twelfth month, and return before the first year expires, you are are stamped in for another year, so you get two years with no extensions. After that the OA is expired. You can apply for an O or leave the country and get another OA.
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4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
OA extension still has income requirements. either 800K in the bank or the 65K a month transfer with proof by bank statements
But you only that prior to the application. Once the visa is issued, there are no financial requirements.
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1 minute ago, ScotlandtheBrave said:
Tried to register on ThailandIntervac site yesterday and five required fields were inoperative. Tried again just now and four of them worked but the last one, sub-district, was again not working. Seriously frustrating, to put it mildly.
I could see values in the sub-district field, but they were incorrect, so I just chose any one. TBH, I don't think it is important that you enter you address correctly. As long as your passport and age are correct, you'll probably be okay. They're not going to check the addresses of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
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14 minutes ago, Harry2 said:
Well I just logged in at 12.10. For Astra I checked all 3 hospitals for 3 months & no dates showing (except Phayathai 24 & 25 June but no doses). Anybody anything different?
I just managed to get a booking for the End of June, AstraZeneca at Phyathai2. The difference between the available and non-available dates is not very clear on the calendar. They've also added a count of available vaccines on each day. If you click on a date, it shows the count of available vaccines under the calendar. There were a couple of hundred available on the day I chose.
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7 minutes ago, Gashead said:
Was going to change to Sino but then decided to try 23rd with AZ and hey presto, an appointment - subject to confirmation email. All seems a bit hit and miss.
When did you do that? Was it earlier in the afternoon, or within the last hour or so?
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1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:I find myself having some difficulty putting any kind of positive spin on my outcome of the vaccine registration process being a webpage screen that tells me I have an appointment date in 1970!
???? Just roll up to the centre tomorrow and tell them that you're sorry you're a bit late, but can you have your vaccination now please?
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2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
I shudder to wonder, could it be another of the possible Thai website hosting deals where it only works properly if you're using MS IE, and gets funky if you're using Firefox, Chrome, etc??? When I did mine, it was via Firefox.
It's certainly a possibility. I guess there's also a possibility that you guys who have been told to wait for an email are in a better position than those of us who are unable to select a date. At least you're in the queue to be given a date. The 1970 date just means the programmers haven't set things up properly. That date is what you get if you have zeros in a date field.
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6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
Perhaps we could begin to get some idea of what's driving the differing results from the registration.
I think that's almost certainly down to the way it's programmed. I entered the same data as you and can get through to the calendar, but all the dates are greyed-out.
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Looks like private hospitals might have vaccines by October.
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10 minutes ago, rwill said:
I got to the part where you select what vaccine, hospital, and date you want. But no eligible dates show up for any of the combinations of vaccine and hospital.
At first it took several minutes for each page to load but then it got faster. Until you get to select a date which shows no availability.
OMG. As soon as I took this screenshot available dates showed up.
Have you been able to book a date and time?
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3 hours ago, EricTh said:
I've looked at a few videos from Dukelanguage. It seems to be quite good especially the explanation of the ending particles.
Never go to AUA & YMCA because those are terrible schools for foreigners who want to learn more than just the basics.
Duke is definitely one of the top schools in the country for foreign learners. The guy presenting those videos is the principal. He's the author of Read Thai in Ten Days.
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19 hours ago, gearbox said:
To create a new cryptocurrency one has to have certain skills and abilities in programming.
If you don't mind paying a few hundred dollars, there are sites that will create a you a coin in a couple of minutes.
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Definitely check out https://dukelanguage.com/
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This does it for Netflix, but you have to watch on a computer. If you have a Smart TV, you can mirror from your computer to your TV.
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18 minutes ago, Denim said:
Gobbledygook.
They're launching a cryptocurrency. Apparently, it was launched previously but somebody ran off with all of the money. They say this time they're going to make sure charities are helped.
One thing that strikes me is that it seems to be completely anonymous. The only contact they have is a Telegram account.
Nearly 7.5 million have received Covid-19 vax in Thailand - 2 million had two doses
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Hope so.