Thailand to increase mandatory quarantine period, compulsory mask wearing from May 1


A worker waits to great customers outside a restaurant at Siam Square in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Thailand is reworking its vaccine strategy as a month-long soft lockdown to contain its worst wave of Covid-19 infections deepens an economic crisis and risks plans for reopening the crucial tourism industry. - Bloomberg

BANGKOK, April 30 (Bernama): Thailand will increase the current mandatory quarantine period for international travellers from seven to 10 days, to two weeks and make wearing mask mandatory in all provinces in the kingdom, starting May 1 in bid to contain a rapid surge of Covid-19 cases in the kingdom.

Besides that, dining in services banned at restaurants in maximum and strict controlled areas including Bangkok and five other provinces - Chiang Mai, Chonburi, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan - deemed as high risk areas for infections.

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