Thailand's mandatory quarantine policy for all foreign arrivals
Thailand government has had strict mandatory quarantine policy for everyone who landed in the land of smiles regardless of which country the person came from. Two weeks' quarantine among other measures (in a hotel facility) is a standard norm in Thailand. Thailand is also reporting alarming number of new cases though but we have to compliment Thailand for reducing the risk of infection spread from those arriving via Thai airports.
So India and UK needs to decide: if mandatory quarantine for incoming passengers from foreign land (regardless of vaccination status) is a good policy to reduce the risk of infection spread, then why only reciprocal to each other's citizens, and why not for all incoming passengers on international flights landing in India or UK?
Science tells us that specificity and sensitivity of Covid diagnostics is not 100% and vaccination currently reduces risk of severity of Covid disease and reduces risk of dying of Covid but evidence whether vaccines prevent fully vaccinated people from getting infected from corona virus (or spreading it to others) is still emerging.
So India and UK governments - if the intent is to reduce risk of infection spread from those arriving from foreign nations, and if science tells us that mandatory quarantine is the right policy, then should it not be for all nationalities including Indians and English people arriving in their own nations from foreign lands?
Also, concerns of UK government on Indian vaccine certification needs to be looked at without letting nationalistic jingo or ego cloud our judgment and decision making. Vaccine certification worldwide needs to be done in a way that it works like travel passports - which can be verified by authorities globally.
For example, recently there was news that fake vaccine certificates scam was exposed in states like Gujarat and Telangana. Or there were news reports of those who received the vaccine certificate without getting vaccinated. Indian government has stepped up measures now and it is reported that the CoWin app has a more secure vaccine-certification process for international travellers. We do hope this is in line with global standards.
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