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In addition to Thailand, which opens to visitors on November 1, other Asean countries are also opening under the “living with Covid” policy. Here’s a summary of steps Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam are taking to welcome tourists:

Indonesia

The Bali airport reopens on Thursday (October 14) after being closed for more than a year. The Indonesian government is working on a list of countries that can send direct flights. Visitors are required to provide evidence of hotel booking including the mandatory eight-day quarantine. They are also required to get tested for the virus at their own expense.

Malls, entertainment venues and sports stadiums in Indonesia have been opened since October 8.

Some Asean countries slowly unlock their doors to tourists

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Singapore

The island state has been gradually opening since August 26 and from next Tuesday (October 19) visitors from 11 low-risk countries, including the US, UK and Canada, will not be required to go into quarantine.

However, all arrivals will have to test negative using the RT-PCR method before and after landing in Singapore.

Since August 19, Singapore has given the go-ahead to business meetings with no more than 1,000 attendees and celebrations with no more than 500 guests. All participants must be fully vaccinated. Events with less than 50 people will have to conduct Covid-19 tests in advance.

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Malaysia

Fully vaccinated residents have been allowed to travel domestically as well as take international flights since Sunday because more than 90 per cent of the population has been double jabbed. Malaysia is also gradually opening some of its tourist attractions. The country’s borders are still not open to foreigners, though the government is considering fully reopening the country soon.

Vietnam

The country will open its doors to tourists from low-risk countries in December before fully opening to tourists in June next year.

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The Khon Kaen Communicable Disease Committee decided on Monday to reopen two field hospitals to accommodate the rising number of new Covid-19 cases.

“The Phutthamonthol Field Hospital and the Agricultural and Cooperative Training Centre Field Hospital will soon be ready to treat new patients,” said Khon Kaen governor Somsak Jangkrakul, who chairs the committee. “The field hospitals will be staffed by medics from Sirinthorn and Ban Phai hospitals respectively.”

The committee has also granted Khon Kaen Central Hospital the authority to transfer new Covid-19 patients to other medical facilities or field hospitals in the province to optimise treatment and reduce crowding.

Khon Kaen reopens field hospitals in response to rising Covid cases

Somsak said Khon Kaen has reported more than 300 new infections.

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“We usually find clusters of new infections at factories, fresh markets and among people attending religious ceremonies and funerals,” he said. “The latest cluster was sparked by a group that had gone fishing at the Ubolratana Dam last week. Five members of the group have tested positive so far.

Khon Kaen reopens field hospitals in response to rising Covid cases

“Please avoid attending parties or social gatherings to reduce the risk of infections,” he advised. “If a ceremony can’t be avoided, then stay away from crowds and skip eating at the same table as others.”

A drop in the number of infections had prompted the closure of Phutthamonthol Field Hospital on August 30 and that of Agricultural and Cooperative Training Centre Field Hospital a month later.

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Tuesday was a very unlucky day for a driver when some packages slipped off his trailer and policemen rushed to help him only to find the boxes were filled with amphetamine pills.

The 52-year-old was caught on a road in Phatthalung province with a haul of more than a million pills.

The man was on his way to Pattani and dropped the packages while doing a turn.

A couple of police officers on motorbikes parked nearby rushed to the driver’s aid. However, upon noticing the fallen boxes were full of amphetamine pills, they had the driver open his trailer and found more drugs inside.

The driver was arrested immediately and faces legal action.

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Foreigners will flock to Thailand now that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has announced that the country will be reopening on November 1, the Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said on Tuesday.

Pointing out that Thailand is a popular winter destination for travellers from the West, he said the Public Health Ministry should have a strict screening system ready in time.

However, he said, the arrival of foreign tourists will help kickstart the revival of Thailand’s tourism industry by yearend and in the first quarter of next year.

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Anutin warns of another lockdown if infections rise after Thailand reopens

Visitors from the 10 low-risk countries are not required for a mandatory quarantine but must be fully vaccinated and enter Thailand by air.

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Thailand may be locked down again if people don’t observe Covid-19 preventive measures once the country reopens, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul warned on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced in a televised address on Monday that he has instructed the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration and the Public Health Ministry to look into opening the country on November 1.

Initially, tourists from 10 low-risk countries will be allowed to travel to Thailand without having to quarantine provided they are fully jabbed and test negative.

The list will be expanded to cover more countries in the first week of December and then again in January 2022.

This morning, Anutin said that the detail of the 10 countries was under discussion and will be proposed to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on this Thursday.

Asked about a tendency to close the country again, the heath minister said it depends on Thai people. If they don’t follow the preventive measures strictly, Thailand tends to be shut again.

In addition, Anutin added that risk places like entertainment venues will be monitored seriously, in a bid to prevent the new outbreaks.

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A drug addict got away after shooting his father in the leg with a harpoon as he was trying to let police officers in.

At about 10pm on Monday, police in Bangkok’s Rat Burana district received a call about an inebriated man setting the second floor of a foundry plant on fire. The caller was the father, who said he lived on the second floor with his wife and son. However, 31-year-old Ekkachai Saengthongdee got away after shooting his father in the left thigh just as his dad was opening the door to police officers.

The mother later told officers that their son is unemployed and a drug addict who sometimes assaults his parents.

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She said they decided to call the police this time because Ekkachai had arrived home drunk and set fire to their home. She added that Ekkachai had been arrested several times before but never kept behind bars for too long.

The fire was quickly brought under control and the mother has been invited to the district police station to testify. The father has been admitted to Rat Burana Hospital for treatment and his testimony will be taken later. Police, meanwhile, have launched a manhunt for the missing son.

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Udon Thani is pushing to open its doors to tourists under a “sandbox” scheme from November 1, well ahead of the initial reopening schedule on New Year’s Day.

The provincial authorities say the sandbox scheme has become a standard operating procedure and Udon Thani should be able to open six districts to double-jabbed tourists or those with negative test results without them having to quarantine for 14 days. The six districts considered are Muang, Kumphawapi, Prachaksinlapakhom, Nong Han, Nam Som and Na Yoong.

The main targets are investors, regular tourists and medical tourists.

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Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday (October 12) morning that in the past 24 hours there are 9,445 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 201 of whom have been found in prisons.

Death toll increased by 84, while 11,452 patients were cured and allowed to leave hospitals.

The country’s total caseload from Covid-19 stands at 1,730,364 – 1,604,355 of whom have recovered, 108,174 are still in hospitals and 17,835 have died.

Separately, another 368,278 people were given their first Covid-19 shot in the last 24 hours, 395,505 their second shot and 41,363 a booster, bringing the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered nationwide to 61,033,251.

According to Worldometer, confirmed cases globally had risen to 239.04 million on Tuesday, 216.30 million of whom have recovered, 17.87 million are active cases (81,713 in severe condition) and 4.87 million have died (up by 4,657).

Thailand ranks 24th in the global list of most cases, which is topped by the US with 45.31 million, followed by India with 33.98 million, Brazil with 21.58 million, the UK with 8.19 million and Russia with 7.80 million.

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Samut Prakan Central Prison since September 20 has sent 145 prisoners to work with selected entrepreneurs in industrial sector in the province as part of the ‘Samut Prakan Model’ initiative.

“The programme aims to provide prisoners with an opportunity to improve their industrial skills and increase the chance of employment after they finish serving their sentence,” said Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin on Monday. “Prisoners to join the program will have to wear EM (electronic monitoring) bracelets while the entrepreneurs will provide lodging, wages and other benefits as required by the labour law.”

Two entrepreneurs in Samut Prakan have joined the programme since September 20 under the MOU with Ministry of Justice and Department of Probation, namely Retail Business Solutions Ltd. and Tai Thong Machinery Ltd.
 

“The ministry hopes that more entrepreneurs will join the programme in the future and the Samut Prakan model can be developed into a bigger initiative,” said Somsak. “For example, we are studying the possibility to establish Department of Correction’s Industrial Estate to specifically provide career opportunity to prisoners, which will be a great way to reduce prisons’ crowdedness while giving a second chance to prisoners and providing industrial sector with much needed skilled labours.”

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Meanwhile, Witthawan Sunthonkhajit, Department of Probation director-general has added that more than 74,000 prisoners wearing EM bracelet have been released under the department’s partial release programme. “We have encountered no problem so far,” he said. “Entrepreneurs can rest assured that the released prisoners will not cause problems to your businesses, as they will be monitored at all times via the bracelets. We also have deployed officers and volunteers to keep an eye on released prisoners at workplaces periodically.”
 

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The Thailand Meteorological Department said on Tuesday (October 12) that the strong southwest monsoon prevails across the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand while the monsoon trough lies across the lower North, the Central, the East and the lower Northeast into the tropical storm KOMPASU over the upper South China Sea.

Waves in the Gulf and the Andaman Sea are 2-3 meters high and over 3 meters high in thundershowers. All ships should proceed with caution and keep off thundershowers, while small boats should keep ashore.

The department also mentioned that the tropical storm KOMPASU over the upper South China Sea is moving west through Hainan, China, and will make landfall over upper Vietnam during October 13 to 14. It will downgrade into a tropical depression and an active low-pressure cell respectively.

The weather forecast for the next 24 hours is as follows:

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North: Thundershowers in 60 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy rain; temperature lows of 22-25 degrees and highs of 29-33 degrees Celsius. 

Northeast: Thundershowers in 40 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy rain; temperature lows of 23-25 degrees and highs of 29-32 degrees Celsius. 

Central: Thundershowers in 70 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy rain; temperature lows of 24-26 degrees, highs of 31-33 degrees Celsius.

East: Thundershowers in 70 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy to very heavy rain; temperature lows of 24-28 degrees, highs of 27-33 degrees Celsius; waves 2-3 meters high and over 3 meters during thundershowers.

South (east coast): Thundershowers in 40 per cent of the areas; temperature lows of 23-25 degrees, highs of 31-35 degrees Celsius; waves 2 meters high and over 2 meters during thundershowers.

South (west coast): Thundershowers in 40 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy rain; temperature lows of 20-26 degrees, highs of 27-33 degrees Celsius; waves 2-3 meters high and over 3 meters during thundershowers.

Bangkok and surrounding areas: Thundershowers in 60 per cent of the areas with isolated heavy rain; temperature lows of 25-27 degrees, highs of 31-33 degrees Celsius.

Source: Thailand Meteorological Department

Published : October 12, 2021

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