The EU wants to have the European system with a 'Covid certificate' operational by the end of June. According to EU Commissioner Didier Reynders (Justice), a test with this corona pass will start at the beginning of June.
Reynders wants the certificate, in digital or paper form, to be made available free of charge by the member states. It is a temporary means of facilitating travel between EU member states in times of corona. Once the World Health Organization informs WHO that the pandemic is over, the document will no longer be needed.
The 'Covid certificate', also known as 'digital green certificate', is an initiative of the EU administration and serves as proof that the owner has been vaccinated against Covid-19, or has recently tested negative, or has antibodies due to a previous corona contamination. According to Reynders, the certificate will contain less information than in the well-known yellow internationally recognized vaccination booklet that allows travel to many distant destinations outside the EU in normal times. There will be no central database for the certificate, he said. Reynders also emphasizes that it is not a vaccination passport.
The certificate can be displayed digitally via smartphone, but a paper alternative is also being developed.
Certainly a start, but many (European) tourists have yet to receive their 1st injection and the time between the 1st and 2nd injection is currently being extended in various European countries. For example, the Health Council has advised Minister de Jonge to extend the time to 12 weeks. This means that, according to the current planning, we had the 1st injection at the beginning of July and then received the 2nd injection 12 months later (October 1). That is too late for the regular European holiday season. And then you have the ASQ, which no one is waiting for either.
In short, few European tourists will visit Thailand again this year. Because they are not allowed (travel ban), can't (not fully vaccinated) or don't want to (in ASQ).
To end on a positive note: There is finally light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully we can go to Thailand again in 2022.
Or the vaccination has been completed for more than 3 months. This is a very real risk for many seniors who usually come to Thailand for a number of months from the end of October. Thailand requires that the vaccination is not completed within 2 weeks before and no longer than 3 months before entry. Many people over 60 have already had their first or even 2nd shot.
If you complete your vaccination on August 1, it no longer applies for entry into Thailand from November 1.
Initially this was said of those three months, but at the moment I do not see it as a requirement on the website of the Thai embassy. It is therefore possible that this was not retained as a requirement. (rightly so)
It now only says that you must have received a full dose of a COVID-14 vaccine accepted by Thailand more than 19 days earlier.
That does not always mean that you need 2 injections. That's not what it says.
It says a "complete dose" and for the Jansen vaccine means a full dose = 1 shot.
“Quarantine period may be reduced to 7 full days if you have received a complete dose of vaccines against COVID-19 approved by Thai Ministry of Public Health, for no less than 14 days before depature.
The final decision is up to the Disease Control Officer handling your arrival in Thailand; thus, visitors must present proof of vaccination to the Disease Control Office
https://hague.thaiembassy.org/th/content/118896-measures-to-control-the-spread-of-covid-19
Thanks Ronny. A good message
Until April 1, it was always 1 of the requirements in the plans. Fortunately, it was not adopted.
I have already had my first vaccine and if you give permission to the RIVM you can log in there with your DigiD and it will say that you have had the first vaccine and you can print it out in Dutch and English.
As long as the Corona passport is not there, photograph evidence and store it in your mobile iPad.
If you need it, you have the proof at hand.
I don't understand why they have to test something again.
Of course, it should not be sensitive to fraud, because then you are further away from home.
Or have it added to the vaccination passport, the so-called yellow booklet with us is gray.
As long as Thailand is acting so unfriendly, I have no desire to travel to this country. I must feel that I am welcome and I don't have that at all now. In addition, the airline tickets have also become very expensive. I will have had my 2 injections by then but stay nicely in Europe.
I don't understand your comments. Unfriendly attitude? Airline tickets expensive? Have you dug into the matter?
Thailand protects its population better than the Netherlands does. All countries that have closed their borders somewhat or completely during this pandemic have been spared a lot of misery. Just look at most countries in South/East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Thailand is seriously looking at possibilities to make it easier for tourism, but also for long stays. The step-by-step plan of 1 April, 1 July and 1 October is an example of this.
Furthermore, most airline tickets are very cheap. I always fly with Etihad and a return ticket in the autumn costs me 508 euros.
I rest my case.
Dear Willem, please explain further. What protection has Thailand offered its people? You may not have an active memory of it, but at the beginning of this year it was farang initiatives that distributed food packages to the Thai population. The (partial) lockdowns have only brought the economy to a standstill even more, resulting in a lot of unemployment. Virtually no support for the common man / woman, no vaccination program for the people, but the silence of the real figures on the basis of which you draw your conclusion. How so?
In thailand blog it was already indicated a few months ago that the regime wants far fewer tourists and that the preference is for Asian tourists. The Westerner was culturally further removed from the Thai. Thailand is free to make its own policy, but with these thoughts, I will rather choose Malaysia or Indonesia when travel is possible again. And then the flight prices should not be increased by 50% or 100%. I work in education and therefore depend on the (summer) holidays. Then you know what my comments are based on.
You write “flight tickets have become very expensive”. That is present tense and thus refers to the present. However, I agree with Willem that airline tickets are actually cheaper.
Last year a plane ticket in the summer months was € 1000. Now € 500 (Lufthansa). Yes, soon when we can travel again, we will pay the main price again in the summer months.
And Thailand can want anything, but if your GNP is 20 to 25% dependent on tourism, then Western tourists are also very welcome. Or Thailand will have to find a new source of income within the next year that will bring in just as much money. Spoiler alert; they can't and they don't want to.
Good job BP,
But keep in mind that the virus has been restrained for a long time due to the strict Thai rules.
Unfortunately, due to several outbreaks, the Covid19 has resurfaced.
So the Thai reins will be tightened again.
But it's still more relaxed in Thailand than the EU!!
what strict Thai rules?
In January 2020 the first infection of a Chinese tourist; until mid-March 202 no measure but the advice to wash your hands, wear a mask and keep your distance. After the outbreak in March at the boxing stadium in Lumphini (run by the army) and the return of Thai workers from South Korea (who could just go home with quarantine at home, not tested), the party has only just begun. That is, let's calculate, 60 days without measures. Any idea how many people may have been infected during that period, but never tested? My estimate is between 100.000 and 150.000.
A small addition. Figures are manipulated to their heart's content to make the situation look worse or better. In addition to the number of deaths from Covid according to the figures, it is good to look at the so-called excess mortality, in other words how many more Dutch or Thai people are dying now than average in a certain month or year.
From March 2020 to August 2020, the number of deaths in Thailand is about 8,5% (unexplained for now) higher than 'normal'. In the Netherlands this is 10% higher.
(http://re-design.dimiter.eu/?p=1058). Not a very big difference.
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/08/06/lifting-the-veil-on-thailands-covid-19-success-story/:
“Excess deaths far outnumber the death toll announced by the government. There have been about 13,000 excess deaths since the start of March, about 8.5 per cent higher than normal. Thailand's 58 reported COVID-19 fatalities are only 0.45 per cent of total excess deaths — spectacularly low compared to countries like the United Kingdom, Italy and France.”
normally Europeans will ALSO be able to travel to Thailand from October 1, 2021!
under certain conditions :
evidence vaccination
and possibly additional conditions such as that the country of origin must be 70% vaccinated AND take a negative corona test on site and you will be followed via an APP during your leave….
As of October 1, ASQ still applies, although more freedoms apply in 6 provinces. However a few issues; rising infections in Thailand, vaccination of its own population is very slow. In short, you can already forget about normal travel from October 1, 2021!