Public Health Minister barred entry to Switzerland over vaccine requirements

[Coss]

 

Switzerland barred entry to Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, reportedly for not meeting the country’s Covid-19 vaccination requirements, and Thai media reports that the minister missed a World Health Organisation meeting.

Anutin was the first person in Thailand to be injected with a Covid-19 vaccine on February 28, kicking off the country’s mass immunisation campaign. He was injected with China’s Sinovac vaccine while PM Prayut Chan-o-cha was later inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The health minister later received a second dose of Sinovac and a third “booster” dose of AstraZeneca as the Sinovac vaccine was later found to be not as effective as AstraZeneca against the Delta variant, which is now the dominant strain of the virus in Thailand.

But apparently Anutin’s two Sinovac jabs and AstraZeneca booster didn’t meet Switzerland’s vaccination requirements for entry and he needs a fourth shot. Nation Thailand reports that many countries do not recognise mix-and-match vaccines that include China’s Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines.

Now the health minister says Thailand will start administering fourth doses to people who need to travel abroad to attend business meetings.

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/public-health-minister-barred-entry-to-switzerland-over-vaccine-requirements

 

I got some saline here with a bit of blue food colouring in it, I can sell it to you as "KiwiVax", it works against covid, yes it does, really it does, cheap, a swimming pool load, will do the whole population, send 4 billion Bht to my account in Ticonerogajikistanistan...

[Mekong]

I wonder if Bubi is still gonna argue with me when I say that Sinovac is useless?

According to the Swiss it is, or maybe they banned him for his “Dirty foreigners “ comment

[buffalo_bill]

8 hours ago, Mekong said:

I wonder if Bubi is still gonna argue with me when I say that Sinovac is useless?

 

He does. What makes things difficult is that you refuse to accept that " not as efficient " is something else than " unefficient". The Swiss border forces did not send him home because he was full of Sinovac but because he did not match what they think is an efficient combination of various  vaccines.

 

Mr Mekong, again BuBi´s powerful arguments shoot everything in pieces but as a principally peaceful subject I graciously offer you a way out by admitting that Sino-something is useless to gain entry into Switzerland. He should try Somalia.

[Mekong]

Synonyms of Useless  one of them is ineffective. So you use the word ineffective which has the same meaning as useless and state it is not useless

Switzerland do not accept Sinovac at all, nothing to do with combination

So a Sinovac inoculation is of no use when trying to enter Switzerland, so it isn’t useful when gaining entry.