Vaccines - Covid 19

[sateeb]

With Aetna (formerly BUPA) I get a free complimentary Flu shot every year. As I understand it my policy covers Covid so let's see. The last time I called to enquire they told me no plans as yet to offer vaccinations.

[hhinner]

Dream on - those that leave the UK are regarded as scum in the eyes of the govt.

Though something has to be done as Thailand's attitude towards foreigners will result in the majority of them being unvaccinated.

Edit: here is a thought, if you took out an insurance policy that included Covid cover, would it include vaccination? It could be a lot cheaper than paying what these hospitals/businesses will be charging farangs.

Quite a few local insurance companies are offering Covid-19 cover and, depending on policy chosen, may include insurance against vaccination reactions. However I haven't come across any including vaccination because, I guess, they expect the government will be providing it. Thais are the main market, obviously, but they do accept foreigners. Age up to 99.

[buksida]

Well the whole point of getting coverage to include vaccinations would be because xenophobic governments like Thailand make it policy for medical centers to overcharge foreigners or exclude them from the process entirely.

But as you say, very unlikely its available for exactly those reasons.

[hhinner]

Greece has a problem with unvaccinated foreigners and I think Thailand is heading the same way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... covid-jabs

[GroveHillWanderer]

I was talking to a Russian friend a couple of days ago, and she was adamant that the Russian Embassy will be sorting vaccinations for the Russians in Thailand. I thought absolutely no chance. Now today I read that the Bhutan Embassy will vaccinate its citizens in Thailand.

Whilst I think there is zero chance of the UK government worrying about its citizens in Thailand, is this even a remote possibility?

https://www.mfa.gov.bt/?page_id=9907

Bhutan has a population of 771,000 - there's probably not more than a couple of hundred in Thailand (if that).

There are an estimated 5.5 million British citizens living abroad according to a BBC report on "Brits Abroad" - it's a slightly different proposition.

[Big Boy]

Yes, but Russia isn't.

[Big Boy]

An interesting post on the PR Thai Government page in the last hour:

The Public Health Ministry will start vaccinating the general public against COVID-19 in phase 2 around mid-May, when the first lot of the locally manufactured AstraZeneca vaccine will be ready.
Public Health Permanent Secretary Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit said people can register to get the vaccine via four channels: the “MOPH Connect” (Doctors Ready) Line official account; the mobile Mor Phrom application that will be ready for download on May 1 initially on Android phones; at hospital via telephone, or by contacting public health volunteers nationwide.
He said the government aims to have 50-60% of the population vaccinated as soon as possible to effectively control the outbreak, and will also expand the vaccination units by collaborating with the private sector, which will maximize the number of people getting vaccinated per day from the current rate of 500 per day per hospital.
Those who have been vaccinated will receive both a paper and digital certificate (in the form of a QR code), which they can use to verify their vaccinations. The ministry expects vaccine passports for international travel to be ready in June, once the World Health Organization (WHO) finalizes the all-important criteria.
On February 8, Thailand’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has repeated its commitment to give everyone in the country – including expats and migrant workers – vaccinations against COVID-19. Expats and foreign workers are likely to be vaccinated in phase 3 from June.

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[Big Boy]

Press release from the Thai Embassy in Tehran:

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[handdrummer]

Are they expecting a large influx of Iranians?
Are the N. Koreans next?

[Dannie Boy]

Are they expecting a large influx of Iranians?
Are the N. Koreans next?

I think you’ll find that most (if not all) Thai Embassies around the world have issued similar advice!!

[buksida]

Thailand adopts use of jab passports
The government has announced it will adopt the so-called vaccine passport, a certificate of vaccination, for use with Covid-19 vaccination in Thailand as an official travel document for those already vaccinated against Covid-19 and travelling to other countries.

The Royal Gazette on Tuesday published a copy of the format of the vaccine passport along with an order by the Disease Control Department authorising a number of disease control officials to issue the vaccine passport.

Both the format of the vaccine passport and the order were approved by department director-general Dr Opas Karnkawinpong.

On the cover of the approved vaccine passport format there is Thai-English text that reads "Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand", a garuda emblem and more text reading "Covid-19 Certificate of Vaccination".

The name of the vaccination certificate holder and his or her passport or national identification number is typed in English certifying that the certificate holder has already been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Only vaccinations using vaccines registered in Thailand or ones certified by the World Health Organisation will be issued with the vaccine passport, while the signature of an authorised disease control official is required to validate the passport.

The vaccination certificate is intended for an individual holder only, not for group use. Children aged under seven must have their parents' signatures on their vaccine passports, while those who are unable to write are required to give a fingerprint on the passport instead.

Six disease control officials meanwhile are now authorised to sign a vaccine passport when it is issued.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -passports

Will be a looong time before everyone has one of those ....

[buksida]

Adverse symptoms in seven Sinovac recipients
Seven people suffered from partial paralysis after receiving the Sinovac vaccine, a doctor from Chulalongkorn University said.

Thiravat Hemachudha, director of the Health Science Centre of Emerging Diseases at Chulalongkorn University's faculty of medicine, posted on Facebook on Tuesday that six of them were in Rayong and one at the Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital in Chon Buri's Sri Racha district.

Their conditions improved after doctors administered medication to dissolve blood clots, Dr Thiravat posted. The hospitals had reported their conditions to the Public Health Ministry, he wrote. Their conditions might have been caused by certain lots of vaccines, not by all of the vaccines, he said.

The latest wave of Covid-19 is highly contagious with more severe cases expected in intensive care units (ICU), another doctor from Chulalongkorn Hospital said.

Dr Opass Putcharoen, chief of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital's Centre of Emerging Infectious Diseases, also posted on Facebook on Tuesday that the latest wave is more severe than the two previous rounds as has been proven by more than 200 cases at the hospital.

In the first wave of infections, the virus in a patient's body would decline after seven days. Even though a patient tested positive after a PCR test, the virus could not be cultured, he said. But in the latest wave of transmissions, the virus could still be cultured after 10 days, which means it can remain in the body for longer, Dr Opass said. Unlike previous rounds, an increasing number of young people have suffered from pneumonia, he said.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... ula-doctor

'Perfectly safe' said that muppet health minister ...

[Big Boy]

Thaksin tells government he’s ready to help them secure vaccines

https://www.thaienquirer.com/26563/thak ... -vaccines/

[Dannie Boy]

Adverse symptoms in seven Sinovac recipients
Seven people suffered from partial paralysis after receiving the Sinovac vaccine, a doctor from Chulalongkorn University said.



'Perfectly safe' said that muppet health minister ...

And that’s from a relatively small group of people, so a much higher incidence than the AZ vaccine!!

[hhinner]

Adverse symptoms in seven Sinovac recipients
Seven people suffered from partial paralysis after receiving the Sinovac vaccine, a doctor from Chulalongkorn University said.



'Perfectly safe' said that muppet health minister ...

And that’s from a relatively small group of people, so a much higher incidence than the AZ vaccine!!

But when you look at the peer reviewed reports for the Sinovac vaccine there is no... Oh, wait, no such reports exist.