October reopening targeted

Many more hurdles: Vehicles travelling past pedestrians at Yaowarat Road in the Chinatown area of Bangkok. Just over 7% of the country’s 69 million people have had at least one dose. — Bloomberg

The country plans to fully reopen to vaccinated foreign visitors by mid-October as the government seeks to restart the crucial coronavirus-devastated tourism industry, the prime minister announced.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said fully inoculated foreign visitors and returning Thai citizens must be allowed entry “without quarantine or other inconvenient restrictions, ” and that his goal is to open up the country within 120 days.