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Airport staff to get fourth shot as Test & Go resumes

An official guides a visitor at Suvarnabhumi airport in December. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

All 25,000 Suvarnabhumi airport staff are expected to get their fourth Covid-19 vaccine shots by the end of next month as Thailand resumes its “Test & Go” quarantine waiver scheme for inoculated travellers on Feb 1, airport director Kittipong Kittikachorn said.

Mr Kittipong said staff are also being randomly tested weekly for Covid-19 using antigen test kits to build confidence among new arrivals.

From Nov 1 — when the country first reopened to foreign arrivals — until Saturday, Suvarnabhumi airport admitted a total of 381,871 people from other countries.

Of them, 317,754 arrived on the Test & Go platform; 22,918 via the Sandbox programme; 30,418 under seven-day quarantine; 9,950 under 10-day quarantine and 831…

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