Thailand Mulls Waiving Quarantine Rule for Vaccinated Tourists

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Thailand Mulls Waiving Quarantine Rule for Vaccinated Tourists

Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg News

 

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(Bloomberg) -- Thailand may scrap mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors vaccinated against Covid-19 as it may help the nation revive its tourism industry, according to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha.

 

Foreigners visiting Thailand may be allowed to skip the two-week isolation if they furnish vaccination certificates but authorities will continue to track them, Prayuth said after a cabinet meeting in Bangkok Tuesday. The government will carefully consider all aspects of such a move before implementing them, the prime minister said.

 

The Southeast Asian nation has already cleared vaccines made by Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and AstraZeneca Plc for emergency local use and ordered a total of 63 million doses from the two producers. The country is set to receive the first batch of 2 million doses of Sinovac vaccine on Wednesday that will allow it start a national inoculation program as early as next week.

 

Full story: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/thailand-mulls-waiving-quarantine-rule-for-vaccinated-tourists-1.1567286

 

-- BNN Bloomberg 2021-02-23

[RotBenz8888 18,514]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

but authorities will continue to track them

Ah, more sa-mart BMWs. 

[Crossy 27,828]

Didn't they "mull" this idea last week too?

 

[rasmus5150 2,969]

1 hour ago, RotBenz8888 said:

but authorities will continue to track them

 

1 hour ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Ah, more sa-mart BMWs. 

 

They will send some TAT personnel to North Korea to get some pointers.

[damascase 2,336]

They do an awful lot of mulling here in Thailand.

Sound advice is: don’t hold your breath.....

[cyril sneer 3,640]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

but authorities will continue to track them

until they leave again..

Edited Tuesday at 10:39 AM by cyril sneer

[connda 17,912]

5 minutes ago, rasmus5150 said:

 

 

They will send some TAT personnel to North Korea to get some pointers.

Their North Korean invasive tracking model will produce a tourism boom to match North Korea's.  No doubt. 

[Rumble Tumble 94]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand Mulls Waiving Quarantine Rule for Vaccinated Tourists

Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg News

 

File photo for reference only

 

(Bloomberg) -- Thailand may scrap mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors vaccinated against Covid-19 as it may help the nation revive its tourism industry, according to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha.

 

Foreigners visiting Thailand may be allowed to skip the two-week isolation if they furnish vaccination certificates but authorities will continue to track them, Prayuth said after a cabinet meeting in Bangkok Tuesday. The government will carefully consider all aspects of such a move before implementing them, the prime minister said.

 

The Southeast Asian nation has already cleared vaccines made by Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and AstraZeneca Plc for emergency local use and ordered a total of 63 million doses from the two producers. The country is set to receive the first batch of 2 million doses of Sinovac vaccine on Wednesday that will allow it start a national inoculation program as early as next week.

 

Full story: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/thailand-mulls-waiving-quarantine-rule-for-vaccinated-tourists-1.1567286

 

-- BNN Bloomberg 2021-02-23

Hell of a lot of mulling and talking but very little action.

 

if the country and its leaders cant do a risk based analysis to allow vaccinated tourists into the country after a large portion of the thai population is vaccinated, well they might as well just build a giant wall around the Kingdom and give up.

 

 

 

[DLock 7,418]

"May", "may", "may"....thats a lot of mays.

 

Why continue to speculate?...form a committee and make it happen...

[Thaiophil 215]

The authorities are taking climate change seriously.

 

Contents of this story are 100% recycled.

[lee68 117]

The government needs to vaccinate the whole country first and thats going to take time! 

[nkg 1,345]

This isn't the first time this idea has been mentioned (probably the 20th time), but it's interesting that it is the PM who is saying it this time.

[richard_smith237 27,283]

Instead of ‘Mulling’ and continuously confusing everyone... Discuss & decide !!! - then let everyone know exactly what degree of information is required.

 

Most Vaccines include 2 doses: Do both doses need to be taken? (or is the first does sufficient?).

Various Vaccine - is any vaccine acceptable to enter Thailand under ?

What proof of vaccination is required ?

[nkg 1,345]

2 minutes ago, lee68 said:

The government needs to vaccinate the whole country first and thats going to take time! 

 

Says who? I've noticed that the people who state this are coincidentally already in Thailand on their retirement/marriage visa ...

 

 

[Captain Monday 1,872]

2 minutes ago, nkg said:

 

Says who? I've noticed that the people who state this are coincidentally already in Thailand on their retirement/marriage visa ...

 

 

Any farangs here will have to vaccinate to extend as visa Maybe not in  a medical exemption. Just get your jabs. There is hardly no downside.