Thailand suspends tourism as Omicron rises

Starting tomorrow, travelers may no longer apply to enter Thailand for at least two weeks, the prime minister announced late Tuesday afternoon.

Faced with the rise of a worrying mutation of COVID-19, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced after his weekly cabinet meeting that travel restrictions would be reimposed and the so-called Thailand Pass program suspended until at least Jan. 4.

“We won’t accept any more tourists apart from those 200,000 travelers registered” already, he said in a televised address.

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