onsdag 2 februari 2022

Hotels tasked with checking bookings. Hotels must verify each Thailand Pass booking within 30 hours or visitors' registration will be automatically rejected, according to new procedures aiming at monitoring RT-PCR tests. Bangkok Post

Hotels tasked with checking bookings
A passenger has her information checked by a hotel representative upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday as Thailand resumes quarantine-free travel. (AFP photo)
A passenger has her information checked by a hotel representative upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday as Thailand resumes quarantine-free travel. (AFP photo)

Hotels must verify each Thailand Pass booking within 30 hours or visitors' registration will be automatically rejected, according to new procedures aiming at monitoring RT-PCR tests.

"The reopening of the Test & Go scheme depends on monitoring 100% of the RT-PCR results, and we have to encourage more tourists to download the MorChana app," Yuthasak Supasorn, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) governor, told hoteliers during a meeting in preparation for the resumption of the scheme.

New arrivals must take a second RT-PCR test at a hotel five days after landing in the country.

To ensure guests paid for the second test and hotel room before taking their trips, hotels have to verify their bookings within 30 hours after reservation data is sent by the Foreign Ministry, which is responsible for Thailand Pass registration.

Siripakorn Cheawsamoot, TAT deputy governor for marketing communications, said the new procedure, called Thailand Pass Hotel & Swap System (TPHS), is designed to help track tourists and contain the possible spread of Covid-19, connecting data from all related parties and updating it for effective analysis.

For locals and foreigners who live in Thailand, there are sufficient choices for the fifth-day booking as there are 2,247 SHA Extra Plus hotels in 39 provinces that can handle bookings with RT-PCR tests, he said.

"If they cannot find such a hotel in their hometown, they can travel to a nearby province," said Mr Siripakorn.

Thanet Supornsahasrungsi, acting president of the Chon Buri Tourism Council, said the main problem in the early stages of Test & Go late last year was a system that was not linked between three parties.

He said tourism operators reported weak points and unexpected flaws in the process.

"Related authorities said they already acknowledged these problems. We hope they will fix them properly," said Mr Thanet.

He said tourists were sometimes granted a QR code from Thailand Pass to enter the country despite lacking a hotel, airport transfer, or an RT-PCR test booking.

Many of them were unable to download MorChana, the central tracking app, because of technical problems, said Mr Thanet. There were also unstable back-end systems that frequently broke down, while some hotels were unable to fill booking data, he said.

The first- and fifth-day confirmation from a hotel via TPHS should help ensure tourists who already paid for rooms and tests will not miss their appointments, said Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi, president of the Thai Hotels Association.

While the second test might be necessary for the early stages of the new Test & Go, in the long run such restrictions should be removed or replaced with a cheaper method, such as an antigen test kit, said Mrs Marisa.




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🔴 #COVID19 update on Wednesday: ⬆️ 8,587 new cases ⬆️ 22 deaths ⬆️ 83,094 in care. Richard Barrow


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tisdag 1 februari 2022

Chonburi announces 391 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no new deaths - The Pattaya News

Chonburi announces 391 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no new deaths

Highlights:

  • 391 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

  • 393 people recovered and were released from medical care

  • No new deaths

The Chonburi Department of Public Health announced 391 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 today with no new deaths, February 1st, 2022.

This makes a total of 17,723 cases of Covid-19 in the current round of infections, with 3,836 people still under medical care/supervision, and with a total of 21 recorded deaths in Chonburi since the start of this recent round of infections at the beginning of this year, January 2022.

Additionally, 393 people were also released and recovered yesterday in Chonburi. 13,866 people in total have now been released from medical care and recovered in Chonburi since this current wave of Covid-19 began at the beginning of this year, January 2022.

In total, 1,946,595 people in Pattaya and Chonburi have received their first dose of a Covid -19 vaccine which is 83.58 percent of the total Chonburi population. Of those, 301,525 have received their first dose and are what the Thai government calls 608 groups (elders, have chronic health problems, and pregnant) which is 81.51 percent of those in these risk groups in Chonburi.

The district-level new cases were as follows today:

Mueang Chonburi 112, Si Racha 81, Banglamung (Pattaya) 98, Panat Nikhom 17, Sattahip 17, Ban Bueng 5, Phan Thong 23, Ko Chan 1, Nong Yai 1, and 36 people transferred from other provinces for medical care.

The details on the cases are as follows:

  1. Work and stayed in Rayong, transferred from other provinces for medical care, 12 cases
  2. Risky occupations meeting many people, 12 cases
  3. Medical personnel
  4. 9 back from other provinces from Bangkok (4), Samut Prakan (2), Chachoengsao (1), Prachin Buri(1), Samut Songkram(1)
  5. Close contacts from previously confirmed cases in families – 105 cases, in workplaces –34 cases, close personal contacts – 52 cases, and joined a party – 1 case
  6. Close contacts of a confirmed patient (under investigation), 17 cases
  7. 120 cases close contacts of a confirmed patient (under investigation)

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måndag 31 januari 2022

Vaccination update 31st December


 

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A total of 2,025 medical personnel were infected with Covid-19 in January, around 66 people per day on average, Dr Thira Woratanarat from Chulalongkorn University posted on his Facebook page on Monday. Read More: https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40011743. The Nation


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Test & Go visitors must make two hotel bookings. Visitors who arrive by air under the Test & Go programme, which resumes on Tuesday, will have to book hotel accommodation twice for two mandatory Covid-19 tests, and comply with disease controls, or face legal action, a government spokesman said on Monday. Bangkok Post

Test & Go visitors must make two hotel bookings
Tourists check in for departure at Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut Prakan province on Monday, the eve of the Test & Go entry scheme's resumption. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

Visitors who arrive by air under the Test & Go programme, which resumes on Tuesday, will have to book hotel accommodation twice for two mandatory Covid-19 tests, and comply with disease controls, or face legal action, a government spokesman said on Monday.

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said the revised Test & Go scheme now required two Covid-19 tests for each visitor, the first on arrival and second on day 5 of their visit.

Visitors would have to show evidence of bookings for the two nights at one of the designated hotels contracted to provide testing services with partner hospitals, he said.

"If they test negative in the first test, they can travel freely until the second test," Dr Taweesilp said.

The revised, reopened Test & Go will be available for visitors from all countries, he said.

If their Covid-19 insurance coverage was limited, visitors found to be infected would still have to meet all costs themselves for their uninsured treatment at hospitals or quarantine hotels, and for disease control responses for high-risk contacts, he said.

Registration for Test & Go entry was suspended late last month due to the spread of the Omicron variant. Until then, it was the most popular means of entering Thailand, with only one night of quarantine while waiting for a test result.

From Jan 1 to 30, 185,037 visitors arrived in the country by air. Russians were the largest group at 19,450, followed by 11,469 Germans, 10,458 Americans and 10,091 Britons, the spokesman said.

This month, Dr Taweesilp said, 22 Test & Go visitors violated disease controls and most could not be located when their Covid-19 tests returned positive.

"Please stay overnight at your hotel and wait for your test results. If there are many tests around the same time, it may take 3-6 hours for the result to come back," he said.

Violators were liable to a fine of up to 20,000 baht depending on the frequency of the defiance. Penalties were much harsher in some other countries, which imposed massive fines and even imprisonment, he said.

In Canada, visitors who failed to do mandatory tests could be fined as much as C$750,000  (about 19.6 million baht), according to Dr Taweesilp, who quoted the Thai Foreign Ministry. Hong Kong had provisions for fines and jail terms up to six months for disease control violations, he said.





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