{"id":19159,"date":"2022-03-24T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2022-03-24T21:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:37:53","slug":"thailand-pre-arrival-covid-19-testing-requirement-lifted-as-of-1-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/news-th\/thailand-pre-arrival-covid-19-testing-requirement-lifted-as-of-1-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Pre-Arrival COVID-19 Testing Requirement Lifted As of 1 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bangkok, 18 March, 2022 \u2013 Thailand\u2019s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) today approved the lifting of the pretravel testing requirement for international arrivals beginning 1 April, 2022, as the kingdom prepares a four-phase plan to downgrade the COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TAT Newsroom will be providing updates in detail via www.tatnews.org once the official directives have been announced in the Royal Thai Government Gazette.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Relaxed rules from 1 April, 2022:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligible travellers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International arrivals under any of the current three entry schemes \u2013 TEST &amp; GO, Sandbox, and Alternative Quarantine (AQ) \u2013 will be allowed to enter Thailand without the need to show proof of a negative RT-PCR test within 72 hours of travel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Points of entry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air, land, and water points of entry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of approved airports increased from 7 to 8 \u2013 Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi, Phuket, Krabi, Samui, Chiang Mai, U-Tapao, and Hat Yai (new).<\/li>\n<li>Land border checkpoints increased from 3 to 4 \u2013 Nong Khai, Udon Thani, Songkhla, and Satun (new)<\/li>\n<li>Water points of entry increased from ports and piers in 2 to 3 provinces \u2013 Phuket, Chon Buri, and Surat Thani (new).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Types of vessels also increased from yachts to also cover ships of Thai government agencies, while Thai crew members on cargo ships will also be allowed to enter Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Testing requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two tests remain in place for the TEST &amp; GO and Sandbox travellers: RT-PCR test upon arrival (Day 0) and an antigen self-test on Day 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandbox staying period<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reduced to 5 days from currently 7 days. After completing five days within the Sandbox destinations, travellers will be allowed to travel domestically within Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AQ requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quarantine reduced to 5 days and an RT-PCR test on Day 4-5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kindly note the information is to serve as reference only. It is especially important to check in regularly on www.tatnews.org to stay current on what remains a very fluid and fast changing situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, 18 March, 2022 \u2013 Thailand\u2019s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) today approved the lifting of the pretravel testing requirement for international arrivals beginning 1 April, 2022, as the kingdom prepares a four-phase plan to downgrade the COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic disease. TAT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-th"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19170,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions\/19170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-gs.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}