News Forum - Good Morning Thailand | Restrictions ease, but the Red Zone curfew remains, Hua Hin ‘Sandbox’

[Thaiger]

From today, as the restrictions ease in dark red zones…. parks, sports stadiums, department stores, and other venues, will reopen. With restrictions easing in “dark red” zones from today, the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare has declared that employees can go back to work. The Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha has spent the first day of a four day no-confidence debate fending off allegations of embezzling funds and paying off politicians in return for political support and favours.

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[Peter1407]

Hi, did someone today (01.09.21) forgot the upload of the news to FB again?? 
 

[Andrew Reeve]

Hi Peter1407, what exactly are you referring to please, as over 20 news articles have appeared onto Facebook today.

Wednesdays Covid update was published over 6 hours ago.

Thank you

Andrew

[Abertillery]

Watch infections escalate again ,too early to reopen,especially as UK and USA have put Thailand on red list 

[Bob20]

1 hour ago, Abertillery said:

Watch infections escalate again ,too early to reopen,especially as UK and USA have put Thailand on red list 

And the EU

No large numbers will come, yet taking too much risk to re-open.

[WaccineChinawatiiRaporn]

Does anyone know a website that has the new inter-provincial travel regulations for each province in Thailand?

 

[AlexPTY]

i looked from my window last night, it was 9:30pm and traffic on the road was quite heavy. Reading about curfew in Bangkok, i thought it actually says "don't go out unless it's necessary" Maybe it's not correct or wrong translation, i cannot find now what it exactly says in Thai

[WaccineChinawatiiRaporn]

I emailed Bangkok Airways about restrictions to Samui, Krabi & Phuket.

Once I get a response I'll post on here.

[WaccineChinawatiiRaporn]

OK everyone, this is what Bangkok Airways wrote me back in an email. Please see below....

 

Thank you for your interest in Bangkok Airways' service. According to your e-mail, we would like to inform you that passenger need to load and register to "Mor chana" application in Bangkok route with QR Code "Samui Health Pass" in Samui route or CM Chana app for Chiangmai route before your flight departure date.

 

Passenger must be vaccinated for Covid 19 and the RT-PCR test or Antigen rapid test are required to travel within 72hrs prior to your flight departure date.

The test has been issued from Hospital of Clinic with doctor certificate only. For more information, please contact the Department of Disease Control di-rectly by Hotline 1422 or 02-590-3000 or Samui public health department 07-742-125-3, 077-420-947, 081-536-6935 (Thai telephone number).

 

Samui :

 

- Sinovac or Sinopham : fully 2 doses for vaccination but passenger have vaccinated more than 7 days before flight departure date.

- AstraZeneca or Moderna or Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson : 1 dose for vaccination but passenger have vaccinated more than 21 days before flight departure date.

 

Passenger could read and visit via Samui government agency facebook via : https://www.facebook.com/covidcenterkohsamui/.

 

 

Chaingmai :

 

Passenger must be vaccinated for Covid 19 and the RT-PCR test or Antigen rapid test are required to travel within 72hrs prior to your flight departure date. The quarantine 14 days is required and you could visit via Chiangmai government agency : http://www.chiangmai.go.th/covid19/procedure.html.

 

- Sinovac  : fully 2 doses for vaccination

- AstraZeneca : 1 dose for vaccination but passenger have vaccinated more than 14 days before flight departure date.

 

 

For Bangkok-Chiangmai, we have operated flight daily as normal which you could make a reservation via our website : www.bangkokair.com but Bangkok-Krabi vv. has been temporarily suspended from now on until further notice.

 

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

11 minutes ago, WaccineChinawatiiRaporn said:

Samui :

AstraZeneca or Moderna or Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson : 1 dose for vaccination but passenger have vaccinated more than 21 days before flight departure date.

Chaingmai :

AstraZeneca : 1 dose for vaccination but passenger have vaccinated more than 14 days before flight departure date.

Thai, same same but different. I wonder if this will affect the choice people make of their destination.

[Bob20]

AZ for Samui 21 days and for CM 14 days?

You can't make this stuff up

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

2 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

You can't make this stuff up

You can if your a Thai business person.

[Bob20]

4 minutes ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

You can if your a Thai business person.

I thought it might be because we're further North and the vaccine works quicker here

Or because the C comes before the S in the alphabet

But hey, CM is getting 29.000 doses of vaccine for the 1.2m people here, so all will be dandy!

[Griff1315]

Bangkok to reopen for foreign tourists October 1st absolutely ludicrous. If BKk can reopen why not just throw all restrictions in the bin and let the virus fly.

Not that anyone is coming.

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

1 minute ago, Bob20 said:

I thought it might be because we're further North and the vaccine works quicker here

Or could be due to altitude? Affects the ability for rational decisions?

[Bob20]

Just now, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

Or could be due to altitude? Affects the ability for rational decisions?

Could be, as the decisions are not taken in CM but in a bunker in BKK...

[WaccineChinawatiiRaporn]

 

Ok here's some info I got from TAT (LINE ID: @tatcontactcenter). They are quick to respond and answer questions I found out today.

TOPIC: travel restrictions FROM BANGKOK to the below provinces

Surat Thani/Ko Samui
Songhkla
Krabi
Chiang Mai
Phuket
Pattaya/Chon Buri
Hua Hin

ANSWER: Without vaccination certificate, you cannot travel to the above mentioned provinces. You need to undergo a 14-day quarantine when arriving in their areas. For Phuket, you will be refused entry if you cannot provide the vaccination certificate.

Most of the provinces requires travelers to report their arrival to local authorities or local health volunteers and to quarantine at home or their accommodation, not at an ASQ hotel.

For Hua Hin, unvaccinated travelers are required to go into a 14-day home/hotel quarantine.

For Chiang Mai, travelers may quarantine at designated hotel or at provided state quarantine facilities.

For Surat Thani, travelers are required to provide a vaccination certificate "or" a COVID-19 test result done by an RT-PCR method, and issue no longer than 72 hours. The information is in accordance with the provincial order as of 4 August 2021. Please keep checking for possible updated measures.

Currently, there's no quarantine requirement for travelers to Chonburi. Now, we are checking for more the measures announced for Krabi and Rayong. 

For Koh Samui, you must have been vaccinated. If you will receive a Moderna vaccine, you must have received one shot of the vaccine for no less than 21 days before traveling to Koh Samui.

To enter Phuket, you must have received 1 jab of the Moderna vaccine for no less than 14 days and you must provide a fully-paid hotel booking/package tour booking to the officer at checkpoint. Some airlines may require such documents when checking in.

We would like to add that you will also need to provide the COVID-19 test result issued no longer than 72 hours before arriving in Phuket.

For Krabi, you will need to be fully vaccinated with 2 shots of COVID-19 vaccine or only 1 shot if it is an AstraZenaca. You must have been vaccinated for at least 14 days before entering Krabi and you must provide the COVID-19 test result done by RT-PCR method or rapid antigen test, issued no loner than 7 days.

A letter certifying that you have essential purpose for travel is also required.

Please check for updated measures before traveling to any destination and always check with airlines if they require their passengers to provide additional documents when checking in.