Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has agreed to consider a proposal by the Phuket business community to allow foreign visitors who have been vaccinated to bypass quarantine.

From next month, foreign tourists who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to visit six tourism provinces, namely Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Surat Thani (Koh Samui), Chon Buri (Pattaya) and Chiang Mai.

They must still be quarantined for seven days.

In July, Phuket will be the first province to waive the quarantine requirement for vaccinated foreign visitors, as part of the government's plan to reopen the country.

The government now needs to ensure its massive inoculation programme proceeds as planned, said Gen Prayut on Tuesday.

Gen Prayut said a digital platform needs to be created to register the tourists.

As for the national Covid-19 vaccination programme, he said, the Finance Ministry and Krungthai Bank have been assigned to jointly develop a digital platform to help with the allocation of vaccines.

Allocation is handled mainly by the Public Health Ministry, he said.