Thailand to reimpose coronavirus curbs to contain outbreak

Tough developments for Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. Please keep your Olympic athletes at home. We can have virtual Olympics - your athletes can race around tracks in your own countries and we'll compare digital times.

With all these vaccines available, I just don't get why these countries don't vaccinate their people.

With bellwhethers such as Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong etc... all going back into lockdown, why do people have such rosy views on the UK and USA?

The "Phuket Sandbox" will be a fiasco. The additional tests, requirements, paperwork, and overall bureaucratic BS will kill the programme before it starts. I would guesstimate that it will attract less than 500 people a day. ANd most of those won't be actual 'tourists'. They will be people who normally live in Thailand and are using Phuket as a stepping stone to getting back to their residences/family in the country.

This on an island that attracted upwards of 10 MILLION visitors in 2019.