No-quarantine travel with Malaysia to start this month
published : 8 Mar 2022 at 15:07
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Mongkol Bangprapa
Quarantine-free "vaccinated travel lane" (VTL) entry is planned for air travel between Thailand and Malaysia, with at least 10 daily return flights from mid-March.
A government spokesman said on Tuesday that good progress was being made in finalising the details at talks between the two countries.
The VTL scheme was agreed to at talks during the Malaysian prime minister's official visit on Feb 25.
The VTL was likely to be in place by mid-March for fully vaccinated travellers. There would be up to six daily flights between Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and four daily flights between Phuket and Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia already had a VTL with Singapore. Arrivals in Malaysia need to pass an RT-PCR test for Covid-19 no more than two days before their trip, and another test on arrival. They could then enter Malaysia without being quarantined.
Vocabulary
- finalise: to complete the last part of a plan, trip, project, etc - ทำให้เสร็จสมบูรณ์
- progress: the process of developing or of getting nearer to achieving or completing something - ความคืบหน้า
- quarantine (verb): to keep a person or animal that might have a disease separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - กักบริเวณ จำกัดบริเวณ
- scheme: a plan that is developed by a government or large organisation in order to provide a particular service for people - แผนการ โครงการ
- spokesman: a person who speaks on behalf of a group or an organization - โฆษก
- vaccinate: to give someone a vaccine, usually by injection (putting a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle and a syringe), to prevent them from getting a disease - ฉีดวัคซีน
