No pre-travel Covid tests from April 1
published : 18 Mar 2022 at 15:05
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Friday announced the end of the requirement that visitors pass a pre-travel Covid-19 test, from April 1.
Testing on arrival will continue.
The requirement for pre-travel tests would end for all visitors, whether arriving by Test & Go, Sandbox or quarantine channels.
People who enter the country through Test & Go or Sandbox programmes would be given an RT-PCR test on arrival, and be required to perform an antigen self-test on day 5 after arrival, monitored at their hotel.
Sandbox visitors would remain in their reception areas for five days. Visitors in the quarantine scheme, including people caught sneaking in, would be kept in isolation for five days and have an RT-PCR test on day 4 or 5 after arrival.
The CCSA would continue to require visitors to have Covid-19 insurance coverage of at least US$20,000 but was likely to reduce it later.
Vocabulary
- arrival: when someone reaches where they are going (arrives) - ขาเข้า การเข้ามา
- insurance: an arrangement in which you regularly pay an insurance company an amount of money so that they will give you money if something you own is damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or are ill or injured - การประกัน
- isolation: set apart from; disconnected from - แยกออกมา ตั้งอยู่เดี่ยวๆ
- perform (verb): to do what is required - ปฏิบัติหน้าที่
- requirement: something that you must have or do in order to do or get something else - ข้อกำหนด, ข้อบังคับ
- sneak (verb): (past: snuck) to go somewhere secretly, trying to avoid being seen - เดินหลบ,เดินลับ ๆ ล่อ ๆ
