Thailand orders suspension of rescue flights from Bahrain amid pandemic fear


Royal Thai Embassy in Manama, Bahrain.

BANGKOK, Aug 11 (Xinhua): Thailand's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced that from Monday (Aug 10) evening that it has temporarily suspended repatriation flights out from Bahrain, as well as consular services at the Thai embassy in Bahrain's capital, Manama, until August 22.

A Bahraini official in the Thai consular office was found to be infected with Covid-19, all consular services and repatriation flights from Bahrain to Thailand, will hence be suspended for now, said the CCSA.

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