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RT-PCR tests may be axed

RT-PCR tests may be axed

Govt plans to ease rules to lure tourists

A medical assistant waits to test arriving passengers for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Phuket airport in Phuket on Nov 1, 2021. Travellers to Thailand will no longer have to take a Covid-19 test before boarding the plane. (AFP photo)

The government will on Friday consider scrapping mandatory RT-PCR tests for foreign visitors arriving in the country as it further eases entry rules to attract tourists.

Anutin Charnvirakul, deputy prime minister and public health minister, on Thursday said the Department of Disease Control (DDC) will submit a proposal to end RT-PCR tests during a Centre for Covid-19 Situation…

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