FOREIGNERS in Thailand can register for their Covid-19 vaccination at designated centres from June 7, said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Reports in Bangkok Post said this was in conjunction with the national mass inoculation campaign.
"Foreigners can register at designated hospitals and health centres nearest to where they live.
"Thailand will not be safe until everyone is vaccinated," he said during a daily briefing of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, and later relayed the message on his personal Twitter account.
The announcement follows confusion among the foreign communities after the Public Health Ministry said on May 4 that priority would be given to vaccinating Thai people first.
It reversed the decision on May 6, announcing equal access to the vaccine for Thai and foreign nationals to help create head immunity.
Meanwhile, City Hall sealed off a camp for construction workers in Laksi district after more than 1,000 tested positive for Covid-19, with 36 of 80 samples analysed so far showing the highly contagious variant first found in India.
The Post said infections among 1,107 out of 1,667 workers, or about 66% of the camp, prompted the Bangkok communicable disease control committee to enforce "community isolation" at the facility for 28 days in a bid to contain the outbreak.
The infected workers will receive food supplies and medical treatment while those who are symptomatic will be sent to hospitals.
The camp was built by the Italian-Thai Development company to house labourers working at a nearby construction site.
According to the Department of Medical Sciences under the Public Health Ministry, 36 samples, so far, taken at the workers camp in Laksi were found to be infected with the highly contagious Covid-19 variant found in India.
The strain had spread rapidly in India and been designated as a variant of concern by the World Health Organization.
Department Director-General Supakit Sirilak said that his team have analysed the genetic code of virus samples taken from 80 construction workers and people living in nearby communities.
Of them, 36 - 21 from Thais, 10 from Myanmar workers and five from Cambodians - were diagnosed with the mutated variant of the virus from India.
The others were infected with the UK strain, Dr Supakit said, adding that 87% of infections in Thailand have been by the UK variant.
Virus samples from other infection clusters will be collected for analysis by genome sequencing, he said.