Wealthy ‘vaccine tourists’ are said to be heading to Florida to get vaccinated first. Reuters
As millions of elderly Floridians scramble to register for a limited but growing supply of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, state officials are clamping down on so-called vaccine tourism by limiting doses to only the state’s part- and full-time residents.
Shirley Hicks, 70, a retired teacher from the state’s west coast, spent three weeks glued to her computer to find a dose for her husband Michael, 80, after Florida became one of the first states in the US allowing vaccines for those aged 65 or older.
Thailand plans waiving quarantine for covid-vaccinated tourists
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Thailand, which aims to inoculate 50% of its population by the end of this year, has also approved AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine for emergency use.
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Thailand may scrap its 2-week mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors with proof of Covid-19 vaccination as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to revive its pandemic-hit tourism industry
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Thailand may scrap its two-week mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors with proof of Covid-19 vaccination as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to revive its pandemic-hit tourism industry.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said on Tuesday his government will consider allowing visitors who can produce a vaccination certificate to skip the quarantine and authorities will come up with a plan to track them during their stay in the country.
Male, February 11 (AVAS): The world is familiar with Medical Tourism but COVID-19 has introduced a new genre Vaccine Tourism which the Maldives is to launch soon to attract tourists to its sun-kissed isles.
The big vaccine paradox that Indian statism has given us
Empty ampules of the Oxford-AstraZeneca s Covishield vaccine are seen on a tray at the Dhaka Medical College vaccination centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 9, 2021. REUTERS
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The health ministry’s press conference in New Delhi on Monday was of such importance that it should have had higher TV ratings than the India-England Test match. With scarcely 9 million having received the first vaccine dose in the month since vaccinations began in India (population: 1.35 billion) speed is a necessity. Ignoring social-distancing rules, reporters crowded around health minister Harsh Vardhan. Vaccines, Vardhan declared, “cannot be brought into the open market yet… if some wrong product comes to the market, then who would be responsible for it? How would the vaccination of people over 50 work? How would it be priced? “There is no clear-cut decision on this matter yet. The strategy for