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Old 14-06-2021, 20:15   #76
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For more than 20 years now, the Rainforest World Music Festival has attracted cruisers to Kuching city in Sarawak, Malaysia, in June-July.

World Music in a rich cultural and environmental setting.

For a quick briefing to get yourself up to date, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfo...Music_Festival

This year, the dreaded lurgi has again intervened.

Good news: the Rainforest World Music Festival is ON. And you no longer have to sail up the river in Kuching (though that was part of the fun).

Registration for attendance is FREE of charge. Just bring your own internet access.

Get your world time clock and calendar out: 1800 - 1930 Malaysia Time (that's UTC +8) on 18 - 20 June.

Register early. Goodness knows what the limit will be on server connections for the live stream.

Click the link on: https://rwmf.net/

Don't be late!
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Old 28-06-2021, 18:30   #77
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Thailand's Phuket Sandbox opens:

https://nationthailand.com/in-focus/40002558
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Old 11-10-2021, 03:26   #78
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On Sunday 10 October 2021 at midnight, the Malaysian government removed prohibitions and roadblocks stopping interstate travel.

The occasion was Malaysia reaching full vaccination of 90% of its adult population. Immunisation of adolescents and the remaining unvaccinated adults is continuing.

Malaysia also removed its requirement for travellers to have applied for and been granted a MYTravelPass to cross the international border and enter Malaysia.

The current testing procedure of the population by the Malaysian Ministry of Health is not entirely clear from now into the future. The Malaysian MoH (aka KKM, its abbreviation in Melayu) is testing symptomatic people and close contacts of infected people. MoH encourages the general population to buy price-controlled antigen rapid test kits (the MoH has approved particular brands and these RTKs are available over the counter at pharmacies) and report positive results to MoH.

As a Third World economy, albeit one with aspirations, The MoH never conducted massive random testing. The positivity rate of its testing varied from 10% to single digit percentages (e.g. 3%).

Members of the general public generally held a possibly well-founded belief that as few as 50% of asymptomatic but infected persons made themselves available for testing and isolation.

The Malaysian MoH publishes on its websites data covering new cases, ICU usage, the effective reproduction rate of the virus (R subscript 0; aka R subscript eff) and so on.

Published data include weekly confirmed infections since February 2020 and the fit of recent confirmed new cases to the epidemiological model on which the MoH and policymakers depended.

In the latest graphic of the SEIR model, the orange area under the curve represents the expected number of cases were a significant number of people not to follow the government-recommended operating procedures (physical distancing, mask wearing, crossing state borders and, earlier, crossing county borders). The light blue curve and the area so coloured represent the SEIR model's prediction of confirmed new case numbers if the population followed government-decreed Standard Operating Procedures. The grey bars represent new cases confirmed by MoH tests.
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As a Third World economy, albeit one with aspirations, The MoH never conducted massive random testing. The positivity rate of its testing varied from 10% to single digit percentages (e.g. 3%).
The most recent testing data conducted by and released by the Malaysian MoH was on 8 October 2021. The positivity rate on the end of that day (at midnight local time) was 7%.
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Malaysia also removed its requirement for travellers to have applied for and been granted a MYTravelPass to cross the international border and enter Malaysia.

However, this only applies to Malaysian nationals. For international travelers, the previous regulations apply.
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However, this only applies to Malaysian nationals. For international travelers, the previous regulations apply.
You're correct, J.R.

I ought have written something like 'Malaysian nationals and foreigners with valid visas and long term social visit passes'.

And I think (but am not 100% sure) that entry is still dependent on [1] producing a vaccination certificate showing 2 doses of vaccine; and [2] two negative PCR tests, one taken some hours before boarding a flight to Malaysia and one taken at your arrival or destination airport before crossing the international border.

Malaysia is I understand still mandating 14 days of quarantine (except for some few named economies of origin that have a requirement of 21 days of supervised quarantine) after crossing the international border.

Malaysian nationals and those foreigners with long term visas and social visit passes are eligible for 'home quarantine'.

Singapore has relaxed the requirement of full (meaning 2 doses, not the Israeli standard of 3 doses) for children under 12 years.

I understand that Singapore has or is about to shorten the duration of supervised quarantine for most economies to 5 days. Of course for select economies such as Germany, I understand that no mandated quarantine is necessary as long as the traveller has been im Deutschland for 14 days before departure to Singapore.
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Share of the population fully immunised (according to the definitions of the economies concerned):
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PAGASA, the govt meteorological agency of the Philippines, has declared an official end to the SW monsoon and the start of La Niña (the Magnifier of Storms):

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/15/...fficially-over

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/150253...fier-of-storms
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Really hoping this is going to sort itself out soonish
Still keen to get up there but not if the numbers are still up.
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Really hoping this is going to sort itself out soonish
Still keen to get up there but not if the numbers are still up.
New confirmed cases from government testing show diverse trends. Economies with high rates of double-vaccination even show diverse trends.
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And an earthquake surprise in Bali, Indonesia, just as the much touted opening to tourists of 19 economies limps along:

3 dead, 16 injured

https://en.antaranews.com/news/19460...arthquake-bnpb
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PAGASA, the govt meteorological agency of the Philippines, has declared an official end to the SW monsoon and the start of La Niña (the Magnifier of Storms):

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/15/...fficially-over

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/150253...fier-of-storms
See also ➥ https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ml#post3502948
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