Visitors arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport on Nov 1, when the government reopened the country to vaccinated air travellers. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
The government expressed confidence on Monday that Covid-19 can be controlled for travellers arriving by air, but not for people crossing illegally into Thailand by land.
Apisamai Srirangson, a spokeswoman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said that in the first week since reopening on Nov 1 there were 22,832 arrivals at airports, of whom only 20 tested positive for Covid-19.
The largest number of arrivals were from Germany, with 2,666 visitors, followed by the United States (2,665), the United Kingdom (1,475), Japan (1,449), South Korea (987), Russia (949), Sweden (817), France (774) and the United Arab Emirates (565).
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