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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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FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker prepares a syringe with a dose of Sinovac s COVID-19 vaccine at the Bang Khun Thian Geriatric Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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BANGKOK: Thais who do not want to wait for the COVID-19 vaccine distribution from their government have opted for a new option to get it overseas.
The growing demand for vaccination amid a new wave of outbreaks in the country has given rise to tour packages which let customers join the vaccination queue abroad and choose from a greater variety of vaccines to build their immunity against the coronavirus.
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published : 12 May 2021 at 04:45
16 People get a Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination centre in South Beach, Florida on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)
High net worth individuals are predicted to be the most likely group to take Covid-19 vaccination tours overseas, spending a fortune in the hope of choosing their own vaccines and heading abroad, instead of waiting for local vaccinations.
As the vaccination programme in Thailand trudges along, lagging Western countries and regional peers, outbound tour operators see an opportunity to resume their outbound service for the first time in more than a year, said Anake Srishevachart, president at Unithai Travel Co.
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