Thailand eyes reducing Covid-19 quarantine period from 14 to 10 days

A vendor selling dried goods waits for customers in a market on the Thai-Myanmar border in the town of Mae Sot in Tak province. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on Friday said it has rolled out a strategy to reduce the 14-day mandatory quarantine period to just ten days. - AFP

BANGKOK, Oct 30 (Xinhua): Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on Friday said it has rolled out a strategy to reduce the 14-day mandatory quarantine period to just ten days.

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who chaired the meeting of the ministry's National Communicable Diseases Committee (NCDC), said that the decision to reduce the mandatory quarantine period will be submitted to the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) for consideration.