Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will propose restoring the Test & Go programme to win back overseas visitors and accelerate the economic recovery.
The minister said yesterday he will ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to relax restrictions stepped up early this year in response to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
His request will be put to the centre after a discussion with the Department of Disease Control which confirmed that the fast-spreading Omicron variant caused milder symptoms with far fewer hospitalisations and deaths.
As Omicron is within the government’s ability to control it, measures to spur the economy, which were halted earlier, will be resumed amid a Covid-safe setting.
Mr Anutin noted the public cooperated well in addressing Omicron, which is now the country’s dominant…
