Mor Prom app (tete_escape / Shutterstock.com)
The Thai government is developing an English-language vaccination registration app especially for foreign residents. After registration, foreigners may report to the so-called walk-in vaccination centers and receive a free shot there.
Mass vaccination of the Thai population could begin next week as supplies arrived earlier than expected, said Natapanu Nopakun, the deputy spokesman for the foreign ministry. It has not been disclosed which vaccine brands are available and the quantities supplied.
According to him, vaccination can go very quickly: 'The efficiency of vaccination is not a problem for Thailand. We can vaccinate very quickly once we have the vaccines.' The government emphasizes that all residents of Thailand - including expats, migrant workers and other foreigners - are eligible for free vaccinations.
However, there is a lot of confusion about the registration process. Mor Prom's current mobile app and Line account are in Thai only and a Thai ID number is required to register. Some expats in possession of so-called pink ID cards have a Thai ID number reported that they manage to register. The Ministry of Health says that the app is not intended for use by foreigners. There will be a new app in the English language for that group, which is still under development. It will be announced as soon as it is ready. Foreigners who do not register via the new app may still be eligible for a vaccination at a walk-in vaccination centre.
So far, Thailand has administered 2,2 million doses of corona vaccine, including 800.000 second shots.
Source: Bangkok Post
Again the usual incomplete and incorrect reporting from the Bangkok Post> I have no yellow booklet, no pink card and I was able to register through Mor Prom for the first injection on June 7th. I do use my tax ID, also 13 digits. I already know three other Dutch people in Hua Hin who did it the same way.
It may be possible to register, but will you also receive a vaccination?
And which vaccination do you get, especially the Chinese variant.
Last week a police officer died in Sankampaeng one day after being vaccinated.
I previously wrote on a comment Sanpatong but must be Sankampaeng Chiangmai.
Also last week, the female head of the BanHong high school in Lamphun province has lost feeling on one side of her body since the vaccination.
Jan Beute.
They do not write that it is not possible, only that the Ministry of Health states that the app is not intended for use by foreigners.
What's wrong with that again?
My pink ID card has a number with 13 digits starting with a 6.
This number would match my tax ID. It is therefore not surprising that you and those others have managed to register on this app.
The 6 stands for 'Alien'. I don't have a pink ID card. But my tax ID starts with a 9.
That is an inverted six and I will probably have been told some nonsense at the time. I cannot log in to the app with my number. I'm going to try to be patient again and wait for this new app. It's gonna work sometime. Incidentally, it is not surprising that people do anything, even at official bodies. I had a permanent contact at the Tessebaan for a number of years and she also arranged my pink ID card together with a woman at the Amphur, where the provision ultimately takes place. Every year to her for the living document and what turned out later she kept her own administration. Nothing was recorded in a computer program for the employees to see or use. Not to mention linking systems. This is decades behind. This year she had moved and I got to speak to a friendly man who did not know what to do with the document. There was still a folder with examples somewhere, but mine wasn't there. You guessed it, my wife had to come in and again all kinds of copies of documents. A repetition of moves. Again spent over an hour for something that can be done in a few minutes. We will have to make do with it, but it is and remains tiring.
I've written it before the tax ID number and the number on the pink card are not the same.
How often my tax ID number has changed over the years, why Joost should know.
Jan Beute.
It doesn't have much to do with the subject, but my Thai Tax number is completely different from my rose ID Card. The number of this pink ID Card is of course the same as the number of my yellow house book. Because the app is also specially made for foreigners, it will work with the rose ID Card. Incidentally, when TRUE FIBER had adjusted the payment terminals so that you also had to insert your Thai ID Card, that did not work for me with that pink ID Card.
Dear Peter: The only thing that is certain in Thailand is that everything is uncertain. The government in Hua Hin (still red) is eager to vaccinate. 20.000 people have already registered and for the time being I assume that promise is guilt.
The question of the week is how long will it take to make the application and where will the walk-in vaccination centers be located.
And yes, I am convinced that they can vaccinate much faster in Thailand than in the Netherlands, where they have built an administrative Christmas tree around vaccination.
Registering, dividing into priority groups, passing data for statistics…, instead of sticking a syringe in someone's arm and writing down their name.
Convinced yes? I highly doubt it. The Netherlands is quite steaming when it comes to vaccination. I agree that the "administrative Christmas tree" is holding things up (all the priority groups.... ) but I am absolutely not convinced that Thailand, with this government, is able to vaccinate much faster. Or they should really be able to produce or receive 10 million vaccines every month and also inject all 10 million into their arms. The slow distribution in NL was mainly due to the total dependence on supplies. Pfizer almost pulled NL out of the crisis on its own.
Thailand has the advantage that its own factory will supply the AZ vaccines. But I have yet to see how it goes in practice.
I must be a special person.
But I don't need a vaccination and certainly no apps that track me.
It is extremely sad when you read that in Buriram, a fine or prison sentence can be given if a vaccination is refused.
I'll postpone it as long as possible and who knows in a year or so when it's more clear I'll choose which vaccination I take.
I agree with you Kos.
I am also personally not eager to receive a vaccination.
On the one hand you get protection against the Corona virus through a vaccination (of which some doctors now say that the degree of protection is much lower than the manufacturers indicate) against the Corona virus and on the other hand you can get a future health problem through a vaccination given the side effects on have not been studied in the long term.
That is the big dilemma I struggle with whether or not to take a vaccination…and so far my choice has tipped over to the non-take side.
At the same time, I am very aware to contribute to achieving herd immunity. But that cannot and should not be at the expense of possible future health problems.
In addition, the vaccination against the Corona virus will probably have to be repeated annually, just like with the flu shot.
I wish everyone strength in making a decision.
And of course I hope that if we refuse a vaccination we will not go the way we did in Buriram..!!!!
No, you are not special Koos. I don't want a vaccine either. But I'm going to do it regardless of the fear stories that it will make me sick, that I might die, that Bill Gates has microchips injected into my body LOL.
I just do it because I want to get rid of the corona bullshit, because besides Thailand I also like to visit the Philippines and Cambodia and those countries really don't open to unvaccinated people. And if that is the case then I don't feel like waiting longer than necessary.
So I'm doing it to get my freedom back which is a bad reason because I should be doing it as a precaution for my own health or someone else's. But it's no different: I get Pfizer or Moderna.
Dear Koos, I would also wait, were it not for the fact that I would love to go to the Netherlands in September.
This to see my daughter again after a long time and to settle urgent matters there.
We don't all have the say, I just want to say that I'm not against vaccination, the only way to curb the corona virus. Privacy is a great asset, but there are cameras everywhere, every bank transaction is registered, an open telephone that you take with you, etc. indicate your trade and walk.
I don't believe in tracking apps myself, if you do really crazy things, they know where to find you without that app. What I just want to say about vaccination, you protect yourself, but also largely someone else and that is also worth considering, to do or not to do.
I was able to register with my thai ID card before June 9 for a vaccination now waiting to see if they accept me
I am also scheduled for June 7 in Buriram, also with my Thai ID card.
But you never know.
It would be a bit absurd that in some provinces people would threaten people who do not get vaccinated and then refuse all foreigners who have been staying here for years and for years. Many foreigners want to be vaccinated as much and as soon as possible. But yes, absurdity knows no boundaries…..not in Thailand but also not in Europe.
I did some research myself and well that Sinovac vaccine doesn't seem to be any better or worse than all the others. Now we don't have much alternative and not only do I certainly don't like to get infected and sick, but I would also like to be protected when I return to Belgium (for a while).
Walking around in Belgium as the only unvaccinated among all vaccinated, not infrequently rude people, frightens me the most.