Thailand News - Corona - By Ola J.

söndag 5 juni 2022

🔴 #COVID19 update on Sunday ⬆️ 3,236 new cases ⬇️ 28 deaths ⬇️ 32,253 active cases ⬇️ 775 serious cases. TNR / Richard Barrow

lördag 4 juni 2022

Har inget med Thailand att göra direkt men av allmänt intresse tycker jag. Detta var Arlanda flygplats i morse lördag 4 juni.

Sri Racha, Chonburi — Khao Kheow Open Zoo introduced a newborn baby tapir, one of Thailand’s endangered wildlife, on Wednesday, June 1st to commemorate its 44th anniversary. Pattaya News

Khao Kheow Open Zoo introduces a newborn baby tapir, one of Thailand's endangered species

Friday, 3 June 2022, 23:42

Sri Racha, Chonburi —

Khao Kheow Open Zoo introduced a newborn baby tapir, one of Thailand's endangered wildlife, on Wednesday, June 1st to commemorate its 44th anniversary.

Mr. Tewin Rattanawongsawat, the zoo director, said Wednesday that it was a great pleasure to introduce a male baby tapir born to the 24-year-old father "Wiang" and the 13-year-old mother "Jomklone" in celebration of Khao Kheow Open Zoo's 44th anniversary.

Tapirs are one of Thailand's endangered wildlife species. They look like pigs with tiny trunks, but they are actually related to horses and rhinoceroses.

According to the director, this baby was born on May 15th and was closely monitored by medical specialists. It was strong, healthy, and always attached to its mother. In the early period, it would have the color pattern of a watermelon, but this would eventually change to a clear white and black pattern after six months.

The director invited tourists to see this cutie at the Forest of Asia section of Khao Kheow Open Zoo in the Bang Phra sub-district, Sri Racha, Chonburi.

Additionally, Mr. Tewin announced that the zoo's 44th-anniversary celebration ceremony would range to June 5th. For those interested in helping feed the animals, you can transfer your donation via Krung Thai Bank account 006-0-23655-8 named "กองทุนเพื่อหมีแพนด้า" or contract 038-318444.

Phuket Completely Revokes Mask Order, Capping Incompetent Week of Flip-Flops. Capping half a week of flip-flops and miscommunication, Phuket’s governor on Friday completely rescinded two orders he issued earlier this week relaxing outdoor face mask rules, again returning the province to muzzled-up status.- Bangkok Herald

Phuket Completely Revokes Mask Order, Capping Incompetent Week of Flip-Flops

4 June 2022

A public sign in Phuket telling people to wear masks ... at the beach.

Capping half a week of flip-flops and miscommunication, Phuket's governor on Friday completely rescinded two orders he issued earlier this week relaxing outdoor face mask rules, again returning the province to muzzled-up status.

The bureaucratic sideshow would have been comical had people not been so sick of being forced to pointlessly wear masks outdoors, at the beach in parks and other places where they're not in close contact with others. Instead, it served as another illustration of Thailand's bureaucratic incompetence.

Gov. Narong Woonciew on May 31 issued a directive that was seen as a blanket end to the outdoor face mask mandate in the province. The order was so poorly worded and vague that it was misconstrued and misinterpreted across the country.

So on Thursday night, Narong sought to clean up his mess, issuing at 8:22 p.m. order clarifying the May 31 order to state that masks would still be required except in four instances:

While eating or drinking,
While verifying identity with government officials,
While exercising outdoors,
While at the beach, parks or stadium, as long as people can remain two meters apart.

Then, on Friday, Narong signed yet another proclamation, revoking all his earlier missives. The result? Masks are still required everywhere in public, regardless if you're lying alone on the beach or eating in a park alone.

Bangkok's governor said he also is considering doing away with the idiot mask mandate as daily coronavirus cases drop to their lowest numbers of the year. Perhaps he'll be able to string enough words together as to not make a Phuket-style mockery of the process.

Are three doses enough? 10 facts about vaccine protection. Are Three Doses Enough? 10 Facts About Vaccine Protection. A leading virologist has revealed 10 facts about Covid-19 vaccines and the protection they offer according to the number of doses. The Nation

Dr Yong Poovorawan posted the information, which was drawn from vaccine studies around the world, on Facebook on Saturday.

The information can be summarised in the following 10 points:

1. Vaccine efficiency depends on the number of doses received. One or two doses are not enough to protect recipients from the Omicron variant or prevent severe symptoms.

2. Being fully vaccinated means receiving two doses of primary vaccine and another booster dose, or three doses in total.

3. Unless medically exempt, people should receive at least three doses of vaccine.

Are three doses enough? 10 facts about vaccine protection

4. People in risk groups – such as seniors aged over 60, those with underlying conditions, or people with low immunity – should receive at least four doses.

5. The key to boosting immunity is the number of doses, not the vaccine brand or regimen.

6. For Covid-19 to be declared endemic in Thailand, most people should have received at least three doses to reduce severity of symptoms, plus hospitalisations and deaths.

7. A previous Covid-19 infection offers about the same immunity as one dose of vaccine. People who have received two doses of vaccine and are infected later should be considered "fully vaccinated" with three doses.

8. People who have received two vaccine doses and are then infected can get a booster (fourth dose) six months after their infection.

9. Unvaccinated people who have been infected should receive the booster dose one to three months after recovering.

10. Though Covid-19 does not cause severe illness in most children aged over five, they should still receive three doses of vaccine so that schools can reopen safely.

Are three doses enough? 10 facts about vaccine protection

Huge queues at THAI counter at Bangkok airport. Sanook reported that queues at the THAI check-in at Suvarnabhumi were so serious that even getting to the airport three hours ahead of time might not be enough. Fah advised arriving five hours ahead of time. ASEAN NOW / Sanook

Sanook Thai caption: Queues right up to the doors

Sanook reported that queues at the THAI check-in at Suvarnabhumi were so serious that even getting to the airport three hours ahead of time might not be enough.

They had a "viral" video that showed the full extent of the misery facing outbound travellers as the line stretched all the way around the airport to the main doors.

It was posted on Facebook by Fah Walaiphan a CEO.

She posted that there were just not enough staff present and the situation was serious despite arriving two and a half hours ahead of her flight.

Staff said there were 1,000 people waiting.

Fah advised arriving five hours ahead of time.

She said she had a migraine for hours due to the stress even though she eventually managed to board her flight.

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