Lampang is quietly running neck-and-neck with Phuket in the race for herd immunity against Covid-19, allowing the northern province to contemplate a return to business as usual.
With the spotlight on the vaccination campaign to restore Phuket as an international tourist destination, this little-visited province southeast of Chiang Mai is also moving forward with its inoculation drive.
Surprisingly, Lampang is second only to Bangkok in the number of people booking Covid-19 vaccinations.
That number means a third of Lampang's 740,000 residents have already applied for their jabs. The province is striving for some 500,000, or about 70% of the population, to be inoculated in order to create herd immunity.