Tag: Covid-19 Testing

The Ministry of Public Health has announced the opening of a new Covid-19 testing center, which will operate only on weekdays from Jan. 11-21. The...

About 1,000 civil servants working at Chiang Mai’s provincial hall underwent coronavirus antigen tests in a bid to contain Covid-19. The northern province’s communicable disease...

After Chonburi’s governor mandated that all staff and customers at Pattaya restaurants take coronavirus tests, Pattaya set up four free Covid-19 screening centers in...

Venues of all sizes must test workers daily; Those unwilling/unable must close

Refusing to submit to omicron panic, the Pattaya-area chief of the Thai Hotels Association said Thailand should stick to an earlier plan to ease...

. The Public Health Ministry can't make up its mind.

The on-arrival RT-PCR Covid test requirement for international travelers entering Thailand via the deceptively named Test & Go pathway will remain in place due...

. Doctors say antigen tests insufficient, but even PCR tests may not detect variant

. CCSA makes Test & Go less of a lie, while creating more confusion over on-arrival testing

Likely precursors to what international visitors may experience come November, Phuket and Koh Samui are dropping onerous disease-control measures for domestic tourists. This week, Phuket...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the Public Health Ministry to make Covid-19 antigen test kits available at general and online stores and assigned the...

Health Department also to require mall workers to be vaccinated

Throughout Thailand’s coronavirus epidemic, Bangkok has been the cancerous tumor, metastasizing virus to every corner of the kingdom. The outbreak will not end until...

Six Covid-19 permanent testing units begin operation today in Bangkok, replacing mobile units that have traveled around the city. Bangkok Gov. Aswin Kwanmuang said the...

People who test positive for Covid-19 using antigen test kits can obtain prescription medications and undertake home isolation immediately under new guinace from the...

Bangkok is speeding up coronavirus testing using antigen tests as the latest weapon in determining the scale of the capital’s Covid-19 infection wave. Gov. Aswin...

The Rural Doctors’ Society reported Monday that more than 13 percent of residents in 40 Bangkok slums are infected with the coronavirus during pro-active...

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control is enabling people to make appointments for Covid-19 tests using the QueQ mobile application. DDC Director-General Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong said...

Kingdom discovers what West already knew: More testing leads to more cases, including 309 Friday

The Immigration Bureau backed down from a proposal to require foreigners seeking to extend visas to produce proof of a negative coronavirus test, calling...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is testing people at 472 markets, focusing on migrant workers, and intends to test 5,000-8,000 people in a week. Gov. Aswin...

Desperate Phuket tourism businesses will continue efforts to bring domestic tourists to the southern resort island even as local officials prepare to welcome Thailand’s...

A Japanese national who tested positive for the coronavirus at a Tokyo airport after returning from Thailand tested negative on a more-thorough second test,...

Government's expensive showpiece can process only 170 tests a day, and has done only 46 in 3 weeks.

Thailand on Monday marked eight weeks and more than four coronavirus incubation cycles without a locally transmitted case of Covid-19. Dr. Taweesin Wissanuyothin, spokesman for...