Thailand Bans Entry To Visitors From India Over COVID-19 Surge
Mumbai: Thailand has suspended issuing travel documents from India over the “current coronavirus crisis” in the country. This comes amid a COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand with parks, gyms, cinemas and day-care centres in Bangkok being ordered to shut until May 9.
Thailand has managed to keep its cases down compared to many countries, but the latest outbreak has resulted in 57,508 infections and 148 deaths within just 30 days. It reported 2,048 new cases on Monday, of which 901 were in Bangkok.
The president of Thailand’s Thoracic Society Nithiphat Chiarakun also urged the government to “take decisive steps to halt the people’s movement as soon as possible”.
Growing criticism of the government, Prime Minister Prathuth Chan-Okha wrote on Facebook that Thailand plans to procure more vaccines from several producers with a vaccination goal of 300,000 doses per day to inoculate at least 50 million people by end-2021.
Thailand has a population of about 66.1 million.
Thailand considered additional restrictions later this week, its Coronavirus Taskforce spokesman Upsmai Srirangson said in a briefing, following the country’s announcement of a ban on travel from India where infections have set a global record for a fifth straight day
The Thai embassy in New Delhi said in a statement that certificates of entry for non-Thai nationals travelling from India will be suspended until further notice.
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