{"id":30602,"date":"2021-04-05T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/05\/thailand-tourism-phuket-covid-jabs-quarantine-holidays"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:59:30","slug":"thai-tourist-island-of-phuket-gets-covid-jabs-first-in-race-to-offer-quarantine-free-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30602","title":{"rendered":"Thai tourist island of Phuket gets Covid jabs first in race to offer quarantine-free holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government hopes to jumpstart tourism with mass inoculation program<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a>, it\u2019s the all-important tourism sector that has jumped to the head of the Covid-19 vaccination line, with the country\u2019s most popular resort island embarking on a mass inoculation programme two months ahead of the rest of Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Phuket aims to deliver shots to at least 460,000 people \u2013 the majority of its population \u2013 as it gears up for 1 July, when vaccinated overseas visitors will no longer be required to quarantine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/05\/thailand-tourism-phuket-covid-jabs-quarantine-holidays\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government hopes to jumpstart tourism with mass inoculation programIn Thailand, it\u2019s the all-important tourism sector that has jumped to the head of the Covid-19 vaccination line, with the country\u2019s most popular resort island embarking on a mass inocul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,93,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions\/30603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}