Determined plan being pushed by the Phuket Tourist Association on the holiday island to vaccinate 70% of the population itself using the Sinovac vaccine from China as foreign tourism industry leaders vow that another high season will not be lost in 2021.
Thailand’s Tourism Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn is planning to meet the Prime Minister this week to push for greater priority to be given to vaccination efforts to assist the reopening of the kingdom’s foreign tourism industry earlier than planned, in the third quarter of 2021. At the same time, the Phuket Tourist Association wants the government’s permission to organise a privately funded and driven vaccination programme on the island to inoculate 70% of its population…