Tag: Covid-19 Testing
Phuket, Koh Samui Drop Covid-19 Testing Requirement for Domestic Tourists
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...
Pick Up a Six Pack of Beer, Covid-19 Test Kits at 7-Eleven Near You
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...
Test Negative to Shop: Mall Patrons Must Be Vaxed or Pass Covid Test to...
Health Department also to require mall workers to be vaccinated
Is Bangkok’s Covid-19 Outbreak Slowing? One Doctors Group Thinks So
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...
Bangkok Opens 6 Covid-19 Testing Centers
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...
Positive Antigen Test Now Qualifies Covid-19 Victims to Obtain Drugs, Home Isolation Support
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 Speeds Anigen-Based Coronavirus Testing to Judge Scale of Covid-19 Epidemic
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...
13% of Bangkok Slum Dwellers Infected with Covid-19, Testing Shows
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...
DDC Launches QueQ App for Covid-19 Test Appointments
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...
With Pivot to Mass Testing, Thailand Unlikely to See 0 Covid-19 Cases Until Pandemic...
Kingdom discovers what West already knew: More testing leads to more cases, including 309 Friday
Immigration Drops Covid-19 Test Requirement for Renewing Thailand Visas
The Immigration Bureau backed down from a proposal to require foreigners seeking to extend visas to produce proof of a negative coronavirus test, calling...
Mass Coronavirus Testing Underway at 472 Bangkok Markets
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...
Phuket Tries to Open to Farangs Without Scaring Off Skittish Thai Travelers
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...
Japanese Flyer From Bangkok Who Tested Positive Cleared of Covid-19 in 2nd Test
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,...
Suvarnabhumi Covid-19 Test Lab Offers Faster Tests, Few Practical Benefits
Government's expensive showpiece can process only 170 tests a day, and has done only 46 in 3 weeks.
Thailand Marks 8 Weeks Without Local Case of Covid-19
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...
Gov’t Stamps ‘Made in Thailand’ on Covid-19 Weapons
Thailand is making its own coronavirus tests, PPE, vaccine to prepare for 2nd wave
Bangkok Airport Opens 90-Minute Coronavirus Testing Lab
Negative tests will allow foreign tourists to skip quarantine
Koh Samui’s 4-Hour Covid-19 Tests Could Earn Island First Dibs on Foreign Tourists
Koh Samui hopes to put its new four-hour coronavirus testing lab to good use restarting the island’s tourism industry. Vorasit Pongkumpunt, president of the Tourism...
4-Hour Coronavirus Testing Now Available on Koh Samui
While Koh Samui has seen only seven cases of Covid-19 and none in more than a month, coronavirus tests that yield results in just...