Thailand set to ease Covid-19 testing rules to lure more tourists

Foreign tourist arrivals jumped to 497,693 in the first quarter of this year, up from 20,172 a year earlier when the country was mostly shut to visitors. - Reuters

BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thailand will scrap a mandatory Covid test on arrival as the nation rolls back some of the pandemic-era measures seen as deterring global tourists.

The RT-PCR tests will be replaced with a voluntary self-administered antigen tests for those entering via air and land borders from May 1, Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a spokesman for the nation’s main virus task force, told reporters after a meeting on Friday (April 22).