BANGKOK, May 13 (TNA) – The Foreign Ministry prepared repatriation flights to bring Thai people back from India and assured it had measures to screen out the Indian variant of COVID-19.
Tanee Sangrat, spokesman for the ministry, said two flights were planned for Thai returnees from India amid its COVID-19 outbreak this month. One was set to carry 150 people on May 15. The other flight was scheduled for May 22 and the registration of its passengers had yet to be concluded. The first repatriation flight next month would be on June 4.
Mr Tanee stressed that the Foreign Ministry suspended issuing its certificates of entry and visas for foreigners from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to block the new COVID-19 variant.
The measure applied to people of all nationalities except Thais, diplomats and those with permanent residences in Thailand. Returnees must comply strictly with disease control measures, especially 14-day quarantine, he said. (TNA)
