Picture: Thai Rath
Thailand's deputy prime minister and health minister Anutin Charnvirakul denied there was any specific dates for opening up the country or Bangkok.
In fact he passed the buck on everything when pressed for answers by the Thai media as reported by Thai Rath yesterday.
What about the tourism minister and the Bangkok governor delaying reopening to October 15th?
No one told me about that, he said.
What about having no quarantine for foreigners visiting the country?
That's not up to me, he said, there are experts and committees examining the data.
Pressed further on the issue by a clearly exasperated band of reporters he went off on a tangent about other country's having vaccination plans.
What about the confusion expressed by doctors and medical professionals and delaying opening for a month?
"No one said there was a specific date," he claimed. "And what Bangkok decides is up to them - they have their own committees".
He did say there were lots of things to consider but reiterated that there was no specific timing.
Would we start getting back to normal on October 1st the press demanded?
The answer was the same - don't ask me, I don't know. Ask them.
He didn't mention that his boss Prauyth Chan-ocha had specifically said on June 15th that Thailand would open in 120 days.
Or that the tourism authorities had repeatedly spoke of Phase 2 reopening on October 1st before Pipat Ratchakitprakan and Gen Aswin Kwanmuang had put the date back.
On the vaccination of school students with Pfizer and school reopening he said that on 29th September part of an expected 30 million doses of that vaccine would arrive and the education authorities have a plan.
He added that the FDA were examining the possibility of using Sinopharm on students aged 12+ as well as Pfizer.
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