The Department of Medical Sciences has been ramping up their testing capabilities and have declared it could now perform 120,000 RT-PCR Covid-19 exams per day. They say it may possibly complete the tests and provide results inside 24 hours at any of their 443 energetic labs which are licensed to conduct the checks.
Anyone travelling to Thailand is already required to complete a check with negative results within the seventy two hours prior to their departure, but each person touchdown in Thailand is also obligated to take a second take a look at as soon as they arrive within the Kingdom.
Even these travelling from one of the sixty three approved international locations that may enter Thailand without quarantine are nonetheless required to remain one evening at an accredited SHA+ or AQ lodge while they await their results from an RT-PCR test, so the fast processing functionality is a necessity for tourism to thrive.
Only fully vaccinated travellers from the accredited listing of countries can enter within the new Test & Go programme. Though it’s said that there is not a quarantine for that program, arrivals must anticipate the outcomes of their RT-PCR test, so they are compelled to “quarantine” one night in a pre-booked permitted resort.
Speeding up Bonus to offer outcomes sooner may doubtlessly help the entry process since, whereas Thai officials claim they are averaging a 6-hour wait time, internet posts have complained of delays of over 24 hours forcing them to wait of their arrival metropolis and resort earlier than being ready to journey freely throughout Thailand.
Stunning is striving to make the entry course of easier by dashing up the testing course of and also working to decrease the value of the testing, which had been over 2,200 baht previously but has been decreased by 30% to 39%, leaving them now priced at between 1,four hundred and 1,600 baht.
They say they may work to decrease the check prices further as nicely. Travellers are required to take a second test Covid-19 check after their first week in Thailand, however they are allowed to use much cheaper rapid antigen test kits for that..