BANGKOK, June 17 (TNA) — The Travel Bubble policy will connect Thailand with some countries where COVID-19 is contained and permitted travelers will be meeting participants and teachers, Deputy Prime Minister/Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.
He planned to propose the policy to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on June 26. He assigned the director-general of the Disease Control Department to draft Travel Bubble criteria and ordered a deputy permanent secretary for health to discuss the policy with interested countries.
The countries included Japan and Switzerland, Mr Anutin said.
There would be bilateral memorandums of understanding on Travel Bubble and participating countries would be confident of each other’s measures to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), he said.
Participating countries had to be capable of treating COVID-19 patients and their new cases of infection were declining, he said.
Trips between participating countries would be for participants in seminars, meetings and training and for foreign teachers at international schools in Thailand, Mr Anutin said. General tourists would be excluded. (TNA)
