January 19, 2022
BANGKOK – Moves to ease restrictions and reopen the country will be considered on Thursday at a meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
The Public Health Ministry will also ask the CCSA to change Covid control zones in line with the current situation so that restrictions on activities are eased.
The meeting will also discuss measures regarding the closure of the country to foreign tourists, said the spokesman, without elaborating.
Hoteliers and tourism business operators are calling on the government to resume the quarantine-free Test & Go scheme, in which fully vaccinated foreign tourists must stay just one night in a hotel pending test results.
Test & Go was indefinitely suspended on January 7 following the emergence of Omicron and a rise in new cases of…
