Phuket Steps up Covid-19 Measures
Phuket is ramping up Covid-19 control measures to screen inbound travellers.
Phuket is ramping up Covid-19 control measures to screen inbound travellers.
Local authorities closed risky places and suspended the activities that may transmit COVID-19, affecting pubs, bars and other entertainment venues, while allowing shopping centers to open until 9pm.
Two more visitors to Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox project tested positive for COVID-19. They are Myanmar nationals aged eight and nine years.
Three players of the Leicester City Football Club help the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) promote the Phuket Sandbox project.
Tourism-related operators on the resort province of Phuket ask the government for details about its country-reopening plan that was set to start there within only about 20 days, on July 1.
Yuthasak Supasorn, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, maintained a plan to welcome foreign tourists through the implementation of the “Phuket Sandbox” model.
Officials on the tourist island were seriously screening visitors from 17 provinces earlier declared red COVID-19 maximum control zones.
The infectious disease committee of Phuket ordered the closure of local entertainment places from April 9 to 18 to control COVID-19.
The Thai government on Thursday kicked off the four-phase reopening plan for vaccinated foreign tourists, travelling to five pilot provinces.
Sri Panwa Phuket Hotel in Phuket province will provide 70 visitors with villa quarantine service, according to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation is installing new tsunami detection buoys in the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean to replace an old set of buoys due for maintenance.
Diplomats and spouses from 15 countries visited Phulet’s old town and joined tourism activities in a campaign to boost tourism in this Andaman coastal province.