Many more hurdles: Vehicles travelling past pedestrians at Yaowarat Road in the Chinatown area of Bangkok. Just over 7% of the country’s 69 million people have had at least one dose. — Bloomberg
The country plans to fully reopen to vaccinated foreign visitors by mid-October as the government seeks to restart the crucial coronavirus-devastated tourism industry, the prime minister announced.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said fully inoculated foreign visitors and returning Thai citizens must be allowed entry “without quarantine or other inconvenient restrictions, ” and that his goal is to open up the country within 120 days.
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