Coronavirus (Covid-19)
The Mor Chana app won’t reveal personal data – Minister
The Digital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta says the Mor Chana has be “designed specifically” to protect the user’s data. As an example, it will only display a computer code instead of the user’s name. The Minister says it will only track the movements of each individual and not make their personal information public.
He admitted that the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Disease Control will have access to the data but added that the purpose of the app is to raise an alarm if users enter a high-risk area.
The Mor Chana is different from the older Thai Chana app. It can be uploaded from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
Download on Google Play HERE.
Download on Apple Store HERE.
He said, that if everyone in a restaurant or crowded areas use the app… “they will know immediately if a high-risk person has been in the area over the past 14 days”.
“The app will help shop operators protect themselves by marking customers safe.”
He explained that the photo of the user, which can be uploaded from your phone library or taken specifically for the app after downloading, is only required for ID when travelling between provinces.
The Mor Chana app is an option for people with smartphones using wi-fi data. The Minister explained that people who don’t have a smartphone, but entering a ‘risky’ area, is advised to record their movements so any agency can access the information if they need to as part of the contact tracing of new infections.
The app is in both Thai and English.
SOURCE: Nation Thailand
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Thailand’s PM is saying he won’t let Thai people become vaccine “guinea pigs” in his Facebook post today as he points to reports of serious negative side effects that some people have suffered after getting jabbed with the Covid-19 vaccine. Instead, PM Prayut Chan-o-cha says he will wait for more information from the experts about whether such side effects were attributed to the vaccine solely, or other factors.
“For Thai people, I decided not to take the risk and will not rush to inoculate with vaccines which have not been fully tested and will not let Thai people become guinea pigs.”
He says the National Vaccine Committee will advise the government and closely supervise the use of Covid-19 vaccines in the country once they are rolled out. As the vaccines are not yet available, he reiterated the importance of taking precautions such as wearing face masks when leaving home, practising social distancing and abstaining from gatherings, particularly political ones.
The government has reported 374 new cases of Covid-19 in the kingdom today, with all but 10 being locally-transmitted. Now, the total has risen to 12,000 cases since the pandemic began.
A government spokesman is also saying that PM Prayut is worried about people’s health as the weather has taken a turn for the cold. He also affirmed the importance of imposing measures under the Emergency Decree and Thailand’s Communicable Disease Act in order to help curb the recent Covid second wave. He is also reminding the public to download the Thai Chana and Mor Chana apps.
Thailand has ordered 60 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from a variety of sources, with the first shipment of 200,000 doses to arrive in February. Those vaccines are from China’s Sinovac Biotech. In March, another 800,000 doses are scheduled to arrive and another million by April.
The government has also pre-ordered 26 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, using vaccine technology transfer to allow local production by Thailand’s local company, Siam Bio Science.
SOURCE: Thai PBS World
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New case numbers have jumped alarmingly again today, even though the growth curve was starting to flatten a bit this week. Thailand is reporting 374 new cases of Covid-19today over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to over 12,000 infections since the pandemic began. Only 10 of those cases were non-local infections as they were found in state quarantine. 43 cases were found in the public and 321 cases were found within the migrant worker areas. 10 cases were found in Bangkok, and 24 cases were found in Samut Sakhon, where the initial cluster that kicked off the second wave began.
61 provinces are now reporting Covid cases with Patthalung province being the latest. Dr. Thaweesin Visanuyothin, from the CCSA, says the situation in surrounding countries is also concerning as he fears they may have a “knock-on” effect.
Samut Sakhon, Rayong, and Chon Buri provinces are still under almost full lockdowns due to the amount of cases found in migrant workers and from people frequenting illegal gambling dens. Thaweesin says entertainment venues are exposing the country to risks, as they are still open past curfew hours. He is urging the public to cooperate with the government in order to help curb further transmissions of the virus.
PM Prayut is also requesting people to stop holding public gatherings, (code for anti-government protests), in order to help prevent the spread of the virus. A spokesman says Prayut is “concerned” for the public’s health after recent weather has seen a drop in temperatures, only adding to the worries of contracting the coronavirus. Prayut has also asked the public to be careful when trying to stay warm, as starting bonfires could be dangerous.
The cold pass coming from China is expected to blanket Thailand starting today and lasting through January 19, causing a drop in temperatures of up to 8 degrees Celsius in northern areas.
The government spokesman also reiterated the need for the emergency decree to be enforced as well as the measures under Thailand’s Communicable Disease Act in order to help contain the virus. For their part, protest spokespersons have said they are delaying any new protests for the time being.
SOURCE: Thai Enquirer
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OPINION
The Thai Government, flushed with the success of their containment of Covid-19, decided to market the Land of Smiles to the world as the safe place to travel. With the annual wet season starting to weaken the tourists would flock back to the S E Asian country that had such remarkable success containing, then almost eradicating, itself of the coronavirus.
They floated the Phuket Model – a chance to visit Phuket and do your mandatory quarantine in a luxury hotel with walks along the almost deserted beaches. But Phuket’s locals didn’t like that idea. It was floated again just before the annual Vegetarian Festival on the island, because piercing yourself with sharp objects and wandering around the streets in big groups isn’t dangerous, but a few foreign tourists in hotel quarantine is.
Then they came up with the STV – the tourist visa which would have the world’s eager travellers packing their sun cream for up to 270 days of Thai tourism.
There were promises of plane loads of tourists and even published flights and carriers. A few flights arrived, most didn’t.
In fact, since the start of the STV, the Special Tourist Visa, with its long list of restrictions and requirements, was floated, along with a re-vamped Tourist Visa, less than 400 people have arrived per month, on average, since the end of October. In the October and November of the year before more than 3 million people arrived in Thailand. Even the government’s limit of 1,200 new tourist arrivals per month was even slightly tested.
The government had bought all the streamers and a pretty new dress for the party but no one came.
For the Army generals and public servants who ran the country it was a devastating loss of face. But they had other things to worry about at the time as the Thai youth were revolting, literally. Anti-government protests, whilst modest in size, were inconveniently demanding democracy at the same time as the government was trying to figure out how to attract tourists. They were also targeting, for the first time, the country’s revered monarchy and the man who currently sits on the Thai throne.
Suddently it was high season, the annual onslaught of tourists from the end of November, but popular spots like Phuket, Samui, Krabi, all the other islands, even Chiang Mai, just remained mostly devoid of tourists.
Meanwhile the STV wallowed in its own failure – another failed response to the reboot of Thai tourism.
What went wrong?
Where was the much-anticipated pent-up demand and people banging on the doors of the world’s Thai embassies?
It was the European winter and the ‘snowbirds’ would surely be back to soak in some Thai sun rays. But no.
The first problem was there wasn’t much for them to come back to. They would have the beaches of the islands all to themselves, they wouldn’t have to wait in line for anything, the domestic airlines were still selling low fares to travel anywhere around the country.
But otherwise there wasn’t a lot for them to do. The tourism magnets were a shadow of their former selves. Walking Street, Bangla Road, tours and tour boats, all the tourist-strip restaurants. The buzz of the crowds was gone and more than 90% of the tourist-related business had closed up.
Their staff, their families, their bank loans, their stock and investments – all on hold and forced to find some other means to make ends meet. 931 of some of the larger official tourism operators have now gone out of business, according to Bloomberg News. There would be thousands more of the smaller family operations that have also been swept aside by the Thai government’s responses to the world pandemic.
The industry players wanted action, changes and some sort of stimulus to bring back the tourists. For a country that relied on up to 20% for its GDP, getting the tourists and travellers back was THE only thing on their mind. 2019’s tourism revenue of US$60 billion had vanished from their, and their employee’s, pockets.
But the government wouldn’t relax the quarantine rules and maintained the restrictions and paperwork that has turned off even the keenest Thai-ravellers.
An outbreak of clusters to the south of Bangkok and the nearby eastern coastal provinces since December 20 hasn’t helped. In less than a month Thailand’s number of Covid-19 infections more than doubled. Initially the latest outbreak was tracked down to the illegal import of Burmese migrant workers by greedy seafood businesses wanting cheap labour. Then it spread to eastern provinces – Rayong, Chan Buri, Trat and Chanthaburi – through illegal gambling dens. In both cases the practices were things the local officials turned a blind eye to. The use of cheap, illegal migrant labour and illegal gambling were both popular pursuits but ‘underground’. It was a rude awakening for Thai officials that, this time, the enemy was within.
Street after street in Pattaya is deserted, shops shuttered. Parts of Phuket’s Patong are a ghost town. The island’s ubiquitous tuk tuks, taxis and tourist vans have vanished (where?!). Most of Bangkok is ‘sort of’ back to normal but there are few tourists topping up the retail till or booking rooms in the tens of thousands of hotels. Average occupancy rates, even for the brave hotels that have re-opened their doors, has been less than 30% – bottomline, they’re losing money.
On the upside, if you are living in Thailand, the plane fares remain cheap, hotels have slashed their prices and, for the first time, many renters will consider a discount. The Thai government has been active in stimulating the domestic tourism but apart from circulating the local currency, the country’s tourism industry remains on-hold until the pandemic passes. And that, as we’ve seen, won’t be any time soon.
The world’s travellers, now a much smaller groups than the masses that fuelled the world’s aviation industry in the past few decades, are not heading to Thailand to front up to a 14 day quarantine. They’re going to the Maldives and Costa Rica, and a handful of other resorts who have thrown caution to the wind – some with greater success than others. Just about every survey indicates that tourists, even business travellers, are not willing to stare down 14 days couped up in a 20-30 square metre hotel room. For many of the hotels that rushed to be registered as ASQ (Alternative State Quarantine) facilities, many have dropped out, some of them are now closed.
The stakes are now really high for Thailand and its tourism industry. The government, despite demands, is refusing to reduce the quarantine time or lessen the long list of restrictions and paperwork. The country has now lost it’s glossy veneer as the ‘safe country to visit’ and the annual high season will be coming to a close in a month or so.
Chinese New Year and the annual flood of Chinese visitors to Thailand? Won’t be happening in 2021, the Chinese year of the Ox.
The other ‘elephant in the room’ was the high value of the Thai baht against the currencies of some of the traditional feeder markets. Whilst the Thai baht has been relatively steadfast, many of these currencies have dropped in value against the THB. The perception was that Thailand as becoming too expensive to travel. But 2019 was still the biggest year for tourism on record, despite this often-wheeled out prediction of a tourism apocalypse.
The only hope on the horizon is the vaccine, or vaccines. The early global roll out is just that, early. It will take 6 – 12 months to see if the hard work of the world’s medical and scientific community will be the great saviour.Certainly, a risk-averse Thailand will be limiting any tourism in the immediate future to vaccinated customers. only, and (as stated policy) they will still have to do the 14 day mandatory quarantine, at least in the short-to medium term. Same with the world’s airlines. So Thailand’s tourism woes, especially in the hotspots – Pattaya, Phuket, the islands, Chiang Mai and Bangkok – will reverberate throughout 2021 as well.
Thailand’s economy contracted 6% in 2020 but some economists are predicting a positive turn-around to a 3.5 – 4.5% improvement in 2021. Even the ever-optimistic Thai Tourism and Sports Minister, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, says that there will be 10 million arrivals in 2021. The actual numbers, even in the best of circumstances, will fall well below that prediction. Exactly where the tourists would come from, under the current circumstances and a global depression, is difficult to imagine.
In 2020 the buzz word in the tourism industry was ‘closure’. In 2021 it will be ‘management’.
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Jean-Pierre
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:36 pm
It won’t reveal personal data ? …
it will only display a computer code instead of the user’s name ?? … (which is, by the way, always linked to something but not displayed…)
Thank you for the big laugh.
As soon as you download it “from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store”, you had to login to your account, add it to your library, choose the already identified device, and install it.
From this point, you have already publicly (at least for Google/Apple) given away a lot of personal data. Saying : the telemetry is without “personal data”, is only a figure of speech …
Add on top of it a political environment with little confidence from all users/populations, and it is easy to doubt what is said.
Now, I do not say that the app is bad. It is another step for circumventing this covid-19 already done in many countries. Simply, some statements are like saying “there is no gambling den in Bangkok” (and then, “oh it is just a misunderstanding”…)
John Brown
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:39 pm
This is seriously such a waste of time and worse. Contact tracing apps, at their privacy-preserving best (cf DP-3T), aren’t sufficiently effective, and at anything less than their privacy-preserving best, will quickly drift into a totalitarian surveillance nightmare app and *still* be ineffective.
The only real use for tracking apps is for keeping tabs on quarantine/isolation cases temporarily.
Besides the privacy issues (hello, has anyone heard of baseband antennas?), the deeper problem with these apps is they replace none of the interventions of demonstrable value. They can’t replace cheap at-home Ag screenings (which remain poorly understood by idiots who can’t do math, and even bigger idiots who don’t bother learning to do math and who just listen to the idiots who can’t do math instead 😂); or PCR’s (which aren’t perfect but are absolutely essential to use); and, most importantly, they can’t replace full lockdowns, done scientifically to not waste everyone’s time and exhaust everyone’s tolerance, which means the lockdown goal is zero-COVID full containment, not stupid ideas like mitigation (entertained by people who can’t do math and can’t understand multiplicative risk profiles).
Contact tracing apps just spy on people, expose their data to criminals, and provide an illusion of safety. The point at which they may in some cases prevent infection is so far downstream as to be negligible in value. They’re pure security theater.
This is yet another dinosaur-led disaster waste of our time and money, meanwhile B117 from overseas and the G clade strains from Myanmar both continue to rage across the country, completely unfazed by the all the half-measures taken that add up to useless for actually stopping the pandemic.
On the other hand, if the real goal is to let the situation continue to get so bad that we all accept ongoing totalitarian rule, this is exactly how to accomplish that.
I would seriously entertain that possibility, were this illegitimate, unelected junta not also the most incompetent bunch in the past 50 years, and that is saying something.
Issan John
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm
If only the “cheap at-home Ag screenings” actually existed … but sadly they don’t, and even their biggest supporters such as Professor Michael Mina say that they’d take a year to be developed and rolled out by the start ups now developing them, which he says need a mere $20 billion (ythat’s billion, with a ‘b’) invested in them to make them work.
… and in the meantime no country in the world has approved them (literally, not a single country) and none of the leading scientists, Covid experts and epidemioligists in the world in positions of authority in any country (again, literally none) has advocated investing in developing them.
… why not? Because, apparently, they’re all “idiots who can’t do math” and all on the take from “interested” companies. No exceptions, in any country.
Issan John
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm
…and you think the “contact tracing apps just spy on people, expose their data to criminals, and provide an illusion of safety. The point at which they may in some cases prevent infection is so far downstream as to be negligible in value” while the only solution is “full lockdowns … not stupid ideas like mitigation (entertained by people who can’t do math and can’t understand multiplicative risk profiles)”?
Really?
If that’s the case, it’s hard to understand why the five countries that have measurably handled the Covid pandemic the BEST (Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore and Vietnam, in that order) have done either all or some of what you disparage, with Taiwan being the most obvious example …
… while the five countries that have measurably handled the Covid pandemic the WORST (the USA, Brazil, India, Mexico and the UK, in that order) have done either all or some of what you advocate, with the UK being the most obvious example.
Maybe less time spent imagining you can “do math” and “understand multiplicative risk profiles” better than any and all the lead scientists and epidemiologists in authority in any and every country in the world, and you may have noticed what’s actually worked and what hasn’t in the real world.
There’s a vast choice of issues you can bash “this illegitimate, unelected junta” with, including over Covid with the farce of conflicting advice from the CCSA to stay at home at the exact same time as encouragement from the TAT to travel and the present failure to impose nationwide controls, but it’s just puerile to disagree with everything they do when the measures they’ve taken, at least until recently, whether by luck or judgement, have put Thailand up with the best in the world.
Andre
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:22 am
These type of apps have been tried in Europe but failed, some of them even got scrutinized on security – and of course the tracking data will be used by other Thai agencies like police looking for protestors gathering etc. That they claim the data will not be used is pure bullshit, in other words nothing new from this government.
If they wan’t to track movement they can just use mobile signals to see the flow of people.
Issan John
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 10:12 am
They work pretty well in Taiwan!
… and, rather obviously, they don’t just want to “track movement … to see the flow of people” – that’s not what track ‘n’ trace apps are for, which is to … well … track AND TRACE.
Siso
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 6:06 pm
These tracking apps store more data then people realize. on the other hand is it nothing compared on what for example Facebook collects on data 24/7, so for people complaining over privacy on these apps while literally handing over there complete life on a silver plate to a private entity in Silicon Valley is kind of stupid.
Facebook, google and the rest of the giants are just major supermarkets and we te people and our data are literally the products that’s just as simple as it is.
John Brown
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Sad old man who can’t spell epidemiology or do math sad-old-mansplains epidemiology and math to public health policy worker, getting almost every factually verifiable point wrong in his reply, pretty wild 😂
If only he had a track record of doing his homework before posting instead of ignoring primary sources handed right to him and continuing to regurgitate the news, and if only he hadn’t been such an arrogant and intellectually dishonest jerk repeatedly earlier, he might be have been worth responding to!
Issan John
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 10:09 am
It may give you a little more credibility if you explained why not a single country in the world has approved any such tests for use in the way you describe, nor has a single scientist or epidemiologist in any position of authority anywhere in the world supported them.
Oh, sorry, they’re all too stupid and not worth responding to …
John Brown
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 5:20 pm
Lmao at this nitwit still trying to sealion people who have told him repeatedly to go away, still trying to get them to do his homework for him. Maybe if he learned to read primary sources he wouldn’t be insecure about knowing f-all himself and having to rely on outdated news to form opinions.
Anyone else here want to do his research for him? I’ve been there, done that, not doing it again, no matter how much he begs. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
This pathetic concern troll who already had two chances needs to piss off. Not only did he not bother to do the homework I gave him, now he’s showing he can’t even tell the difference between a quarantine app and one for pre-emptive tracking. Clueless old man just keeps coming off as older and more clueless.
John Brown
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:34 pm
SV companies don’t have right to use legitimized violence but the owners of Mor Chana do big difference even if both are bad
Bobby B
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 6:59 pm
If so WHY must you give the app permissions to access your photos and videos? At least on iPhone it want to access you selfies.
Now I don’t have any pictures I can’t standby, but snooping in my phone there goes the borderline. I will go and by the cheapest Android phone I can get and a sim card (registers to me) and only use that phone for Mor Chana
Issan John
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:07 pm
I’m not defending the app, but the idea that contact tracing apps don’t work and the only answer is a total lockdown is just nonsense based on the evidence.
The five countries that have handled the pandemic the best are Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore and Vietnam. All use either use a tracing app or partial (not total) lockdown, or both, with the best example being Taiwan.
On the other hand the five countries that have handled it the worst are the USA, Brazil, India, Mexico and the UK who have either had no effective tracing app or imposed a full lockdown, with the UK being the best example.
Icecream licker
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:34 pm
Lock down for what? How is something that has killed 66 people in 1 year considered dangerous?
Issan John
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 10:27 am
It’s “considered dangerous” in the same way that a rabid dog is dangerous if uncontrolled, but not dangerous if caged.
Thailand has had 66 deaths in a year because it managed to keep the virus “caged”; the UK, a similar size, didn’t and consequently now has two hundred times that number of deaths – in a day.
How can that be hard to understand?
Andre
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:33 am
Now how do you define handled it “best”? Devastating the economy? Prioritizing people aged 60+ over young people? The cost of this is the young that have to carry, especially in europe and developed countries with extremely good compensation arrangments. It’s not the retired old people that will have to carry that cost – but the young. Mexico tried to close down with “draconian” rules, but the people protested and the government backed off and introduced a trafic light system instead – where red is a lot less restricting than anything in Thaland. People were more afraid of starving than corona! Shutting down a country have consequences – and those who live from day-to-day are the worst hit.
Thailand have failed to bring people out of poverty, and this pandemic will be a setback for the little that have been gained years ago (nothing have been gained under the current government). The prospects for Thailand don’t look good – the numbers were already pointing in the wrong direction before the pandemic.
Issan John
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 10:31 am
Fair point, Andre, but it’s not my definition – do any search using any parameters you like and the same countries come up for “best” and “worst”, with Mexico consistently being among the very worst.
Icecream licker
Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:32 pm
I prefer to lick ice cream not boots.
Nothing on the internet is safe. Every site has been hacked or the data sold at some point.
Donatello
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 6:32 am
I think if you want people (talking about foreigner) to use this app. You should first explain what is your price policy.
I mean, your app say I was in range contact of infected people. What gonna happen? You gonna find me, take me without letting me refuse politely to make a test. Who pay for this test? Then your test say, I’m positive. You gonna sell me another test at the price you decide. If I’m very unlucky, the second test gonna say again I’m positive. Then you gonna take me by force again to a pricy quarantine and again at whatever the price you decide.
So this app can only bring me problem and get stolen by all your wonderful protocol. I pass and continue to fly under your radar. Unfortunately, people have to avoid any control and flee to make sure to not fall in money trap.
chupapi
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 1:59 pm
It’s not so different from other apps developed for this purpose in other countries. Of course there are those who dislike it but yet they daiky use devices that track them constantly beyond their knowledge. So many fool around.
Thomas
Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm
There is a big difference. The difference is this one is specifically designed to track you. If you qr code become red, they gonna chase you. So this app is very different.
Red qr code, means money trap once they catch you.