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“use with caution.” That should apply to the Phuket Sandbox if you are planning family travel.
Popular Thailand blogger, Richard Barrow, tweeted an alert
at the start of the Phuket Sandbox warning families of the potential risk when
booking a Phuket holiday under the sandbox rules.
The small print was a mite too small for most of us to read or grasp, but a week after the first international flight arrived, 1 July, the risks made prominent headlines. Two young children
(eight and nine) failed their second round of testing. Health workers whisked them off to the designated Covid-19 hospital for treatment. Their parents headed in a different direction, leaving their comfortable hotel of choice for a mandatory 14-day quarantine in an Alternative Local Quarantine hotel. It’s the unthinkable outcome, the worst-case scenario, and it should make families think twice about travelling to the Phuket Sandbox or any other destination under strict Covid-19 measures.
PHUKET: The Official COVID-19 Information Center Phuket has appealed for the public to be patient and mindful of the process it takes for them to publicly provide timelines of people’s movements aft
New island health chief reveals details of Phuket vaccination plan
New island health chief reveals details of Phuket vaccination plan
PHUKET: Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon, the new Chief of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO), has revealed details of the plan to vaccinate 74.4% of the population in Phuket by Oct 1, including the vaccination of more than 94,000 people working in the tourism industry, to help reopen the island to tourism.
Saturday 13 March 2021, 02:03PM
Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon, the new Chief of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO), announced the plan yesterday (Mar 12). Photo: PR Phuket
Dr Kusak, who took up the position of PPHO Chief only on Monday (Mar 8), revealed the plan at the meeting of the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee at Phuket Provincial Hall yesterday (Mar 12).