Thailand eases travel restrictions
published : 18 Dec 2020 at 09:16
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
The government is easing travel restrictions for citizens from 56 countries to boost tourism, though visitors still have a two-week hotel quarantine.
Tourists from countries including Australia, France and the United States can travel without visas, but would need a certificate to show they are free of Covid-19 72 hours before travel and a booking at a quarantine hotel, Taweesilp Visanuyothin, from for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), said.
Visitors would have a two-week quarantine period after arriving.
While in quarantine, arrivals would undergo three Covid-19 tests, up from two required previously.
Travellers from other countries not included in Thursday's announcement could still be eligible for a 90-day special tourist visa.
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Vocabulary
- certificate: an official document or record stating that particular facts are true - ประกาศนียบัตร เกียรติบัตร
- ease: to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc - ทำให้ง่าย
- eligible: allowed by rules or laws to do something or to receive something - มีสิทธิ
- quarantine (noun): a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - การกักบริเวณ, การจำกัดบริเวณ
- required (noun): forced to do or have something, especially because it is necessary according to a particular law or set of rules - ถูกบังคับ
- restriction: a rule, action or situation that limits or controls someone or something - การจำกัด, การควบคุม
- visa: an official document or mark in your passport that allows you to enter or leave a country for a specific purpose or period of time - วีซ่า, เอกสารอนุมัติที่ประทับตราบนหนังสือเดินทาง
