No cut-off date announced for Test & Go entry with pre-approved Thailand Pass

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed there is currently no cut-off entry date for Test & Go travellers who’ve already received their Thailand Pass. Test & Go has been suspended since December 22 as the Thai government responded to the rapid global spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.

You would need a Test & Go program approval, and QR code, before the applications were suspended at midnight on December 21, OR applied before midnight on December 21 and were subsequently approved.

The suspension has provoked frustration among many business and tourism operators, who point out that Omicron appears to cause milder illness and the government shouldn’t handle it the same way it’s managed riskier variants.

As has often been the case with Thai government decisions during the pandemic, confusion reigned supreme following the suspension of Test & Go. Conflicting reports, some from the…