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Thailand allows partial reopening of borders to tourists

Thai authorities said on October 2 that the country will begin reopening its borders to outsiders and kick-start the tourism industry plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic with a flight from China this month.
Thailand allows partial reopening of borders to tourists ảnh 1Visitors at Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Bangkok (VNA) – Thai authorities said on October2 that the country will begin reopening its borders to outsiders and kick-startthe tourism industry plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic with a flight from China thismonth.

The scheme has been designed to forestall any risk ofimporting new cases, with only visitors from countries deemed low risk allowedto enter Thailand and all new arrivals required to spend 14 days in hotel quarantine.

According to a Tourism Authority of Thailand spokeswoman, thefirst arrivals will be a group of 150 Chinese tourists, with local mediareporting that their flight would land on the resort island of Phuket nextweek.

If there are no problems with the first group, two moreflights – one carrying Chinese passengers and another with European travellers– are booked to follow.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha told reporters this weekthat only a limited number of visitors would be allowed into Thailand, and thatthey would be monitored through wristbands and mobile phone apps.

Thailand’s economy is highly dependent on foreign visitorsbut the country is expecting a fraction of the nearly 40 million internationalarrivals it recorded last year, after the pandemic brought global air travel toa near standstill./.
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