The heavy burden of reopening 9 Destinations have to keep their fingers crossed the vaccines will arrive published : 3 Jul 2021 at 09:00 9 The international terminal at Phuket airport on Thursday as tourists began to arrive under the Phuket sandbox scheme. The scheme reopens the country to vaccinated foreign arrivals. While Phuket celebrates reopening to tourists for the first time in more than a year, with international flights bringing more than 300 vaccinated arrivals to the island on Thursday, the scene elsewhere in Thailand is a struggle with the relentless pandemic. More than 50 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded on Wednesday and Thursday, followed by a high yesterday for new infections at 6,087. Fatalities hit a peak of 61.