Is there a possibility of no quarantine for travelers entering Thailand based on the latest news?

@Jite****

it's from opera, sopranos tend to be overweight

@Jitender **************

It's a phrase meaning it's not over until it's over!

You said it will be back, but in reality it hasn't gone away. It has been contained in Thailand, but it's still prevalent in most countries around the world.

Hence, the fat lady will not be singing anything for some time to come.

@Garrett **********

absolutely right blood test will show the presence of virus, but depends on the quality of blood tests

@Garrett **********

blood tests are usually antibody tests, they less accurate and are used to establish prior infection in a population. There is a substantial window period with them and they won't show positive until many days after a swab will.

The airport isn't using blood tests, it's using PCR swab tests. These are more accurate and return a positive sooner but they are not a new test, they are what Thailand has been using since the start. They may just have sped it up a bit. I don't think it ever took "weeks" here though, maybe in the US in some places early on but it's a lot faster three now too.

"The lab is equipped to conduct polymerase chain reaction [PCR] tests, which provides up to 95 per cent accurate result within 90 minutes"

There is no indication that this will be a mechanism to skip quarantine, for the groups that require it. Maybe this is for the few day businessmen/government invitations who do get to skip it.

@Garrett **********

Okay, if they perfected testing than it is a big improvement.

@Roy **********

it is a 90 minute test vs 14 isolation vs not entering the country. The test will cost only B 3 k vs 14 day isolation of B 40 k to B 100 k+. For me it is like complaining about Thailands visa rules. It is their country and they make the rules. If a person do not like the rules they have choices, but please just stop complaining about everything (not you but foreigners in general). First foreigners complained that they could not enter the country, then they complained about the cost of isolation and the duration, now they are complaining about the 90 minute test.