Foreigners living in Thailand will be able to register for a Covid-19 vaccine starting June 7, the first day of the country’s mass vaccination campaign.
Foreigners can register for a vaccine on-site at hospitals. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Natapanu Nopakun recommends that expats register for a vaccine at a hospital that has their health records on file. Expats need to a passport, work permit or social security number as a form of identification when registering for a vaccine.
“No one is safe in Thailand until everyone is safe, until everyone is vaccinated.”
In Bangkok, Vimut Hospital and Bangrak Hospital are now designated as vaccination centres.
Vaccination plan for foreigners:
| Diplomatic officials, those from international organisations and their families | 7,000 names of these foreign residents have been collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the list will be sent to the Department of Disease Control. This group can get vaccinated at a hospital where their health records are already on file. Those who do not have health records at any Thai hospital will get vaccinated at a hospital designated by the Department of Disease Control. |
| Foreign government agencies | This group can register for a Covid-19 vaccine with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Consular Affairs. |
| Spouses and family of Thai nationals as well as retirees, those in Thailand for business and investors in Bangkok | On-site registration at vaccination centres will be open for this group starting on June 7. The Public Health Ministry will allocate vaccines with local vaccination centres. Foreigners should register at hospitals where their health records are on file. |
| Foreign students | Vaccines for foreign students will be arranged by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. Vaccination centres for students are under the Council of University Presidents of Thailand. |
| Migrant workers | The Social Security Office will coordinate with employers on vaccinations for migrant workers. |
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I guess us foreign tourists stuck here don’t count.
I think it reads …a passport, work permit OR social security. So, either one document will be fine.
Finally some good news among endless bad news. Lets hope they stick with this plan and not change it over the upcoming days like they have done so many times before. Passport number should and would be more then enough to registrate and lets hope it will be so in june.
At least now this sounds more like a plan. Let’s see its implementation and I’m not holding my breath.
“Expats need to a passport, work permit or social security number as a form of identification when registering for a vaccine.”
That leaves retirees and Non-ImmO spouses, who don’t work here without recourse.
Of course, in three days they’ll scrap this and tell us again, we have to wait until October.
Whoops…I should have read the fine print.
Please feel free not to publish my last comment.
“I guess us foreign tourists stuck here don’t count.”
You guess correctly.
You’re a tourist and you’re also free to leave any time but you choose not to.
While your reasons may be understandable, that doesn’t give Thailand any obligation to vaccinate every tourist that comes in.
@Lucian – Anything could happen between now and June 7. (I guess I’m stating the obvious.)
This too shall change
@ Me Two
“You’re a tourist and you’re also free to leave any time but you choose not to.
While your reasons may be understandable, that doesn’t give Thailand any obligation to vaccinate every tourist that comes in.”
None of the tourist in Thailand is asking free vaccine… we just want to know the… IF – WHEN – WHERE to get. We will pay for it.
@Me Two – We, and many others, can not leave as we came from Malaysia on our sailboat (our only home). Malaysia’s seaports have been closed to yachts since 18th March 2020. We’ve been coming to Thailand over 10 yrs now during the dry high season to get boat work done and have spent much money here. Thailand is trying to attract tourists, how about showing some consideration for those already here. Malaysia has extended VISAs until 31 Dec., Thailand should do the same. At least this would stop the mass unsafe “gathering” at immigration for those needing to extend their VISAs. I have no problem paying for the vaccination.
Read this before you rush to get Sinovac. https://www.bbc.com/news/57148348
If you look at Uk numbers and fact deaths are so low now you can see Astra Zeneca works. It’s sinovac does not. Just don’t take it if you are under 40.
Of course if you can get Pfizer or moderne even better but don’t hold your hopes up If you want to get vaccinated.
“We, and many others, can not leave as we came from Malaysia on our sailboat”.
So you CAN leave, but you just can’t sail to Malaysia with your boat.
As @Me Two said, that’s YOUR choice, just as it’s your choice not to fly somewhere else for the vaccine, or to change your visa for an O / OA and a retirement extension and then qualify as a resident / retiree.
I know that’s not very sympathetic, but I think it’s a bit unrealistic to expect special treatment just because you’ve “been coming to Thailand over 10 yrs now”.
Plenty of Thais would “have no problem paying for the vaccination”, but it’s not an option for them any more than it is for you.
“So you CAN leave, but you just can’t sail to Malaysia with your boat.
As @Me Two said, that’s YOUR choice, just as it’s your choice not to fly somewhere else for the vaccine, or to change your visa for an O / OA and a retirement extension and then qualify as a resident / retiree.”
Can you advice him where he can go with his boat?
Most countries closed their borders for people arriving by ship.
I was told of merchant sailors <ho are on board of their vessel for more than a year. they can't be repatriated by their shipping companies as they are not allowed ashore.
Ships can bring in cargo, fuel, gas, containers… but the crew must stay on board.
@Simon Small – I’m not asking for special treatment, just the same treatment other foreigners here are getting.
At least make it safer for the tourists here to get VISA extensions by eliminating the crowded “gatherings” at immigration and 2 or 3 visits required. Malaysia has extended all visas until 31 Dec, no routine reporting. Thailand should do the same.
@Svcoquette – I can’t even believe that it’s possible to be stuck here this long!!!
“Can you advice him where he can go with his boat?”
@Alavan, I’m not a maritime travel agency, simply agreeing that they’re not “stuck” here but are free to leave so unlikely to get any extra consideration on the grounds that they’re “stuck” when they’re not.
If someone’s “stuck” in a hospital here (or prison), for example, they’re excused having to go to immigration, and possibly eligible for a vaccine – but that doesn’t apply.
Nor does the “merchant sailor” issue apply, as @Svc is “allowed ashore”, to fly out or leave by land, etc.
If someone’s here as a tourist buys a condo and has their “only home” here, which they obviously can’t take with them, that doesn’t mean they’re “stuck” here or change their status as a tourist.
I’m not unsympathetic at all, just agreeing that they’re not “stuck” as there are other options available (“it’s your choice not to fly somewhere else for the vaccine, or to change your visa for an O / OA and a retirement extension and then qualify as a resident / retiree.”) and so @Svc and those in a similar position aren’t likely to be given any extra consideration because they’re “stuck” when objectively they’re not.
@Simon Small – I’m not asking for special treatment, just the same treatment other foreigners here are getting.”
But “other foreigners” are only getting it if they’re eligible – diplomats, spouses of Thais, retirees, investors, students, etc.
Not because they’re “foreigners”.
It’s like asking to “have the same treatment” and to be allowed to work or to have a year’s extension of stay because other “foreigners” are allowed to, without meeting the same criteria or making the same investment as them.
@Baldy – ask customs how many yachts are “stuck” here. Customs has been very understanding and extending our import paperwork 6 months at a time with no hassle and in a friendly manner with a smile, also at no cost. Until Malaysia opens their ports and we can return there is little we can do. We have long term MM2H Malaysian VISAs, bank accounts and a vehicle there.
Its ok bro, you can take mine. I’m gonna wait and see how you people getting the gene therapy shots work out for you all over the next 1-3 years. I have 30-50good years left, I would want to ruin them with some adverse side effect that takes a few years to show.
Eventually the data on this mass medical experiment is rather conclusive. I will wait for more data before I get the “jab”
Its not a vaccine. FYI. Its a gene therapy shot. This is why they call it a “jab”
I’m not suggesting it’s dangerous or I don’t need it, but I want to wait. It’s there something wrong with me wanting to wait for more data?
Right on. A friend of mine who is the chief medical doctor in a big Australian hospital told me not to take the jab because it has not been tested properly. FAUCHI owns Modesta, he and Gates are making millions out of this.
The Indian Govt stopped gates from polio vaccinations in India, because 500,000 children had adverse reactions.
You haven’t seen that in fake news media have you. –
I am a retiree and my health file is at Bangkok hospital…should i register there? I don’t think so!