Thailand Scraps Covid Testing Mandate to Lure More Tourists
- Easier entry rules from May 1 to help boost economy: Prayuth
- Visitors will still need medical insurance, vaccination proof
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Thailand will scrap a mandatory Covid test on arrival as the Southeast Asian nation rolls back some of the pandemic-era measures seen as deterring global tourists.
The RT-PCR tests will be replaced with a voluntary self-administered antigen tests for those entering via air and land borders from May 1, Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a spokesman for the nation’s main virus task force, told reporters after a meeting on Friday.