The most anticipated COVID-19 vaccine finally arrived in Jakarta and it was immediately taken to the headquarters of the state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java, where it is now being kept under tight military and police guard. Indonesia has obtained 1.2 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a biopharmaceutical corporation headquartered in Beijing, …

Thailand’s Tourism Ministry is once again mulling the idea of a Bt300 levy for tourists arrivals to help reboot the economy. The proposed levy would start once inbound flights and tourism activities resume in Thailand. Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, the tourism minister said the levy would be collected once foreigners arrive by air, land or sea. The scheme is part of the 20-year national …

People arriving from China, Iran, Italy, South Korea must disclose their self-quarantine locations, or face a 20,000-baht fine and later one-year jail for repeated failure to comply, according to the Public Health Ministry. Dr Suthep Petchmark, health inspector-general, announced the new measure at Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday. He said arrivals from the four countries must be screened at airports and …

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) plans to impose compulsory measures for all inbound arrivals, including notifying personal information and contact information such as mobile phone numbers and email addresses as part of steps to control the Covid-19 outbreak. The measure will commence on Thursday and all personal information for inbound tourists will be kept in the system for 14 …

Public health authorities on Monday raised measures against Covid-19 to level 3, in preparation for a surge in transmissions. Level 3 means medical staff have to undergo screening for the virus. Within the next two months, every province will have at least one hospital capable of testing for Covid-19. The Department of Medical Sciences is also developing a coronavirus test …