Pattaya mayor pushes to vaccinate residents and become an โ€œarea quarantineโ€

The Pattaya City mayor is pushing for the city to become a โ€œsafe bubbleโ€ for tourists and residents. The idea is to vaccinate all residents and workers in the tourism industry, designating Pattaya as an โ€œarea quarantine,โ€ Mayor Sonthaya Khunpluem says. He adds that the city has prepared a proposal for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

The mayor says he hopes the plan would build both residentsโ€™ and visitorsโ€™ confidence in Pattaya and boost tourism after the local economy suffered over the past year from the lack of foreign tourists.

Chon Buri is now classified as a โ€œyellow zoneโ€ under close surveillance. At the height of the recent wave of the coronavirus, Chon Buri was designated as a โ€œred zoneโ€ under maximum control. With the coronavirus situation in the area now under control, Sonthaya says he believes restrictions will be further relaxed in the province.

The first Covid-19 vaccine shipment is set to arrive tomorrow and Chon Buri is planned to be one of the first provinces to start injections. Only 200,000 doses of Chinaโ€™s Sinovac vaccine are set to arrive, with the most vulnerable groups and frontline workers first in line to get vaccinated.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post

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Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelorโ€™s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.

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