fredag 13 maj 2022

CCSA to consider changing Thailand Pass requirement next week. NNT

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by Tanakorn Sangiam

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - Changes to the current Thailand Pass requirement for international travelers will be revisited at the full panel meeting of the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on 20 May.

 

Under the current entry requirements, all international travelers, including returning Thai nationals, are required to get an entry clearance by obtaining their Thailand Pass online prior to departure.

 

Several changes to the requirements have been made throughout the course of the pandemic, with testing now not required for all vaccinated travelers.

 

Dr. Apisamai Srirangsan, an Assistant Spokesperson for the CCSA, said the center has received several inquiries on future changes to the current Thailand Pass requirement, which is now being considered by the CCSA operations center (CCSA-OC).

 

Proposed changes considered by the CCSA-OC will then be proposed at the full-panel CCSA meeting on 20 May for final approval.

 

The CCSA-OC also discussed the preparation for the 17 May school reopening for the new semester, based on the preparedness of each school.

 

Schools that are not well prepared, and schools with lower vaccination uptake, may opt to arrange online classes for the time being, based on the consideration from their provincial communicable disease committees.

 

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torsdag 12 maj 2022

Thai Public Health Ministry to propose ‘Endemic Sandboxes’ initially on three tourist islands to allow entertainment venues to legally reopen-but Pattaya left out. The next major Covid Center meeting is set for May 20th and will also address Thailand Pass. As for mask mandates, which is a popular question from foreign tourists, they don’t appear to be going anywhere soon. The Pattaya News

Thai Public Health Ministry to propose 'Endemic Sandboxes' initially on three tourist islands to allow entertainment venues to legally reopen-but Pattaya left out
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The Thai Ministry of Public Health is planning to propose what they call 'Endemic Sandboxes' on three tourist islands, namely Koh Samui, Koh Chang, and Phuket, and allow the reopening of night entertainment venues legally in these areas.

Notably, however, Pattaya is left out of the initial proposal despite its sprawling nightlife industry, as Public Health officials at first want to limit legal reopenings to islands that they claim can be more easily monitored.

Public Health Permanent Secretary Kiattiphum Wongrajit said today, May 12th, that the plan would initially be proposed to the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) for their consideration as an initial action plan for approaching the 'endemic' period in Thailand and, after over a year, legally reopening nightlife, which has been roughly closed since April of 2021. Currently, the bar and nightlife industry is operating, on paper anyway, as "converted restaurants" with a variety of restrictions and rules.

The Sandbox could include more relaxing of restrictions at certain places and venues. One of them was the return of the entertainment venues that would be able to reopen under some restrictions that were not specifically explained. Restrictions when visiting public parks and traveling on public transportation would also be relaxed to gradually help people readjust to their normal everyday life.

At the upcoming CCSA general meeting on May 20th, the committee is scheduled to discuss the readjustment of the 'Thailand Pass' registration and the reopening of entertainment venues in further steps, according to CCSA Assistant Spokesperson Apisamai Srirangsan's statement today.

The decision, however, would depend on the Covid-19 situation, the trend of new infections, and the cooperation of people in Thailand, she added.

As for mask mandates, which is a popular question from foreign tourists, they don't appear to be going anywhere soon.





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Covid-19 Endemic 'Soon', But Face Masks, Bar Restrictions to Stay, If Anutin Has His Way. Thailand’s public health minister says the government still wants to “control people’s behavior” and will not drop its universal face mask mandate, even when Covid-19 is declared an endemic disease.- Bangkok Herald

Covid-19 Endemic 'Soon', But Face Masks, Bar Restrictions to Stay, If Anutin Has His Way

Thailand's public health minister says the government still wants to "control people's behavior" and will not drop its universal face mask mandate, even when Covid-19 is declared an endemic disease.

Minister Anutin Charnvirakul again drew derision for his anti-foreigner, overly conservative opinions Wednesday when he said authorities were going to press harder to get foreign tourists to wear face masks while, in the same breath, saying Covid-19 cases were falling to an unworrisome level and that the virus would soon declared endemic.

Known for his pro-weed, anti-booze and anti-nightlife views, Anutin – who has aspirations to succeeding Prayut Chan-o-cha as prime minister – said he had ordered the Disease Control Department to draft restrictions and health measures to be imposed on nightclubs, soapy massages parlors, karaoke joints and other bars for when they are allowed to legally reopen.

Of course, most bars in the country already are open through corruption and fake restaurant licenses.

The government recently lowered its Covid-19 alert from Level 4 to Level 3, but Anutin still has backed off the earlier announcement that the endemic-status declaration would come on July 1. But he claimed that all government stakeholders agree with the full scale reopening of the country and the resumption of business and activities.

As such, he assigned the DCD to plan measures for the reopening of pubs and bars and for foreign tourists to keep wearing face masks.

"Right now, controlling the disease is not a problem but controlling people's behavior is," Anutin told the media. "We still need to encourage people to put on face masks."

The ministry on Thursday reported 8,019 officially confirmed Covid-19 cases and 59 deaths, although the country continues to see the same amount or more of reported positive test results from antigen kits.







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