Thailand News Today | More travel restrictions, cocktail vaccines, gold price surges | July 15

[Thaiger]

Those who aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19, and are travelling from a “dark red” or “red” province, won’t be allowed to enter Phuket. Meanwhile, 3 more visitors to Phuket have turned in positive Covid tests in the past 24 hours. The Chon Buri Governor has announced that 2 more factories and a construction worker camp will be closed after Covid clusters surfaced at the locations. The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation is suing the chairman of the Thonburi Healthcare Group and a Thai mathematician, both who have criticised the procurement of the Moderna vaccine. A record daily high of 98 coronavirus-related deaths was […]

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[Bunkybird]

Excellent news reporting. I like the presenter a lot. Good job.

[voyager]

Thailand News Today item: GPO files defamation charge against Thonburi, as Thonburi accuses them of blocking delivery (and other offences) over Moderna vaccine.... you'd really hope that Thonburi hospitals (/Boon Vanasin) had really strong legally-acceptable evidence before making their accusations (certainly enough evidence to destroy a defamation case). If they did not, Thonburi have just exacerbated the woeful ineptitude of the overall Thai health system bureaucracy, and delayed the availability of Moderna even further.

[voyager]

15 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Those who aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19, and are travelling from a “dark red” or “red” province, won’t be allowed to enter Phuket....

A minute or so into the Thailand News Today broadcast, The Thaiger also popped up a colour-coded map (see image) of COVID risk categorization, by province, dated 13 July... -most of the provinces were designated "red", or a darker colour. This has changed since the previous map I saw early July, and I would be interested if anyone can send me a link to whichever website it's published on, because I've searched TAT, MOPH, and DDC sites, and it eludes me.