Thailand travel agencies offer Covid-19 vaccine tours to US. Details here Reuters Thailand travel agencies offer Covid-19 vaccine tours to US. (Photo: Getty Images)
Travel agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus vaccine tours to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the country s biggest outbreak so far.
The tours reflect global differences in vaccinations, with the United States and Britain making swift immunisation gains, but many lower income nations and increasingly their well-off citizens are still working to secure doses.
Bangkok tour operator, Unithai Trip, has packages from 75,000 baht to 200,000 baht (USD 2,400 to USD 6,400) for trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, with prices dependent on the time gap between doses.
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Thai travel agencies offer Covid âvaccine toursâ to US, Russia
Travel agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus vaccine tours to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the country s biggest outbreak so far.
The tours reflect global differences in vaccinations, with the United States and Britain making swift immunisation gains, but many lower income nations - and increasingly their well-off citizens - are still working to secure doses.
Bangkok tour operator, Unithai Trip, has packages from THB 75,000 to THB 200,000 (USD 2,400 to USD 6,400) for trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, with prices dependent on the time gap between doses.