A vaccine advertisement on a screen in Phuket, Thailand, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. Authorities in Phuket, the first Thai tourist destination to waive quarantine for vaccinated foreign visitors, will ban all domestic travelers and vehicles from entering the island for two weeks starting from Aug. 3 to reduce local infections. The measures won’t affect the so-called Phuket Sandbox program, launched as a pilot project to pave the way for a wider reopening, officials said.- Bloomberg
BANGKOK, Aug. 1 (Xinhua): Thailand announced on Sunday to extend tighter pandemic control measures in the capital Bangkok and other worst-hit regions possibly till the end of August to contain the worst-ever wave of the outbreak, which has brought its total case tally to top 600,000.
The Southeast Asian country reported 18,027 new cases during the last 24 hours, the second highest daily tally since the pandemic began, taking the total number of infections to 615,314, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), the country's Covid-19 task force.
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