News Forum - DDC to reduce quarantine for high-risk travellers from 7 days to ‘5+5’ days after Songkran

[Thaiger]

The Department of Disease Control, or DDC, has agreed to reduce the quarantine period for international travellers who are at high-risk from being in contact with infected people. Starting after the Songkran festival, the quarantine period for high-risk travellers from abroad will be reduced from 7 days to “5+5” days. This means such travellers will be required to quarantine for five days, then self-observe their symptoms for another five days. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, Opas Kankawinpong, shared that the department had already agreed on the measure and expected to enact […]

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[gazmo16]

So the Health Ministry already expects 100,000 new Covid cases a day due to Songkran. They will allow High risk Foreign tourists to do 5+5 , wow thanks very much .

Those sweating on the reduction of Thailand Pass measures from 1st May seem to have little hope if the country is happy to accept an additional 80,000 daily infections in the next 5 days. 

Time to scrap the TP and accept a few infected tourists join the 100K they.ve already accepted will get infected. 

[JJJ]

This should have been dropped long ago. Not only do arrivals have to worry about their own false positive but also have to worry about someone near them traveling having a false positive despite being vaccinated and possibly previously infected. 

[Poolie]

2 minutes ago, JJJ said:

This should have been dropped long ago. Not only do arrivals have to worry about their own false positive but also have to worry about someone near them traveling having a false positive despite being vaccinated and possibly previously infected. 

And what about the false positives near the false positives, and the false positives near them? Oh, what to worry about next!

[ace035]

I thought it was 10 days quarantine, since when did they change that to 7 days?