Want to head home, get some J&J or Pfizer love, squeeze your parents and then return to Thailand?
While universal, 14-day quarantine-on-arrival was reimposed amid the churning third-wave outbreak, Phuket will be open to vaccinated travelers come July, with zero days of trapped-in-a-room isolation needed.
While hopes dim for a global recovery due to the slow rate of vaccination, Phuket is steaming ahead with plans to stage a tourism comeback by becoming a vaccination model by reaching herd immunity.
The government aims to provide nearly 1 million doses to Phuket by June to conduct the mass vaccinations necessary to achieve its so-called sandbox model on schedule, according to Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn.
About 22% of Phuket residents – 104,000 of 466,000 people – have been jabbed at least once with the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine…
