It also has jeopardized plans to reopen the country to tourists, Thanet said. He said 70% of Pattaya’s 450,000 registered residents need to be vaccinated to allow Pattaya to reopen in October as a “sandbox” for fully vaccinated foreigners who would not have to undergo quarantine. At the current pace, that’s a pipedream.
Thanet Supornsahatrangsi of the Chonburi Tourism Industry Council said tourism-sector workers in Pattaya should be prioritized to reopen in October as a sandbox.
Thanet earlier gave Pattaya officials a list of 10,000 local tourism-industry workers who want to be vaccinated, but only 265 were allowed to get jabs this week, he said.
Thanet thanked everyone who pulled off the vaccination effort at the Eastern National Indoor Sports Stadium, but criticized local government officials for nearly bungling it.
No budget was allocated for the needed information technology system to organize distribution of the shots. Furthermore, he complained, the government’s Mor Phom mobile application to register for doses is buggy and crashes often. He also blamed Nongprue subdistrict leaders for refusing to use the established, well-tested QueQ application to distribute queue tickets and stick to using their own, less-efficient method.
He said the line at the stadium, as a result, was long and disorganized. Meanwhile, the 265 tourism workers who were registered via QueQ had no issues.
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