The Public Health Ministry will propose dining-in be allowed at restaurants and in dark-red and red zones for customers who are fully vaccinated or passed Covid-19 tests.

Airline passenger flights, now banned in dark-red zones, would also be allowed to resume, with the same criteria.

The ministry would propose the relaxation of  Covid-19 controls to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Friday.

Lockdown measures over the past four weeks reduced the number of new daily Covid-19 cases from about 20,000 to 18,000, the ministry said.

Under the proposal, air-conditioned restaurants in the 29 dark-red zones of maximum and strict Covid-19 control, and the 37 red zone provinces, would be allowed to serve meals to customers at up to 50% of their seating capacity. Social-distancing must be observed. They could open until 8pm.

Restaurateurs and staff must have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine. If they were infected, the infection must have been at least one month ago but not more than three months, which is the period of effective immunity.

Otherwise, they must test negative for Covid-19.

The same conditions would apply to customers, who must have certificates of vaccination or Covid-19 test results. Those without the certification could only order takeaways.

Vaccinations or negative test results would also be required for airline passengers.

The CCSA will give more details on Friday.