What are the current quarantine requirements for travelers from certain countries entering Thailand?

Thailand’s Department of Mental Health reported a 22% rise in the suicide rate in the first 6 months of this year, some of the rise, they say, could be attributed to additional hardships from the lockdowns, business closures and restrictions imposed during Thailand’s outbreak in the early stages of the global pandemic. There is also anecdotal evidence in a rise of foreign suicides during the Covid-19 pandemic although there are no official statistics about the current rates.

Thailand, ranked in 32nd place in 2019 with 14.4 of suicides per 100.000 population… nearly 10,000 suicide deaths in 2019, The country holds the unenviable position of number 1 among ASEAN

There’s a lot more to COVID than just the virus

@Martin *****

a negative test is a negative test

Are you trying to tell me that the incubation period is less if your from a low risk country. That’s nonsense

All I say is the odds now of having Covid 19 after paying for tests etc are higher in those countries where the virus is raging like UK and USA than those that don't.

I do not see evidence that the tests taken by those getting of planes from whereever are useful or the airlines should never have allowed them onto the plane in the first plane. Around 300 have landed since March found to have Covid 19.

@Stuart ********

I never read medical reports particularly in Thailand these guys should be looking after sick people not sitting typing and asking girlfiend to make Venn Diagrams.

@Martin *****

you seem to be concerning yourself with the Medical background of a so called virus does or don’t do and which countries should or should not be traveling. But when you choose to look at the real sufferings of the Thai people you don’t seem concerned funny

Your really want to learn that there refers to place while their refers to people.

@Martin *****

thank you for the English lesson.

Maybe it’s your intelligence that makes you arrogant enough to think that what you want for Thailand really will make a difference to all the businesses going under.

Oh was it a bit of paper that got you to Thailand or did your superior knowledge get you beamed up

You getting your data from Diane Abbot mate?

@Stuart ********

You think Thais suffering worse than the 31 million Americans on welfare or anyone else, fine. I want Thais to keep out all foreigners who are unable to contribute to the Kingdom never mind making people sick. Clowns that think bit if paper they pay £240 is some sort of pass should be put on a plane and banned. I am shocked anyone can be so arrogant that they think they can go and do want the want because they pay for piece of paper

@Martin *****

what Data mate I get my information from the same source as yours. But you only like information that suits. You ought to run for government seen as your concerns for the Thai people

@Stuart ********

as you struggle so badly with English I won't refer you to my sources. When I become a Thai citizen I might think about political office. I am currently in Phue Thai Phue and am quite happy exposing the lies told in the Anglosphere about 🇹🇭

@Martin *****

like you said when you become a Thai citizen ( very unlikely) you most probably get your information direct from the PM. Oh and by the way my lack of English skills hasn’t held me back as I have a very successful business that as allowed me the privilege of owning a 4 bedroom 4 bathroom swimming pool and 50 meters from 12 km of white Sandy beaches in half of rai of land. In Hat Mea Rhampung near Rayong. So if your passing pop in be lovely to see you little man

@Stuart ********

😂 😂 😂 Get off the glue and go to meetings

@Martin *****

glue ... mate that’s more your style. For a so called intelligent man you find the need to use silly childish emojis.

I like to go to one meeting, you.

I’d straighten them eyes for you. Thailand full of so called Farangs who go there marry a Thai and think they’re gods gift but not even you can be fooled by that

@Stuart ********

personally here and in Holland I have closed 4 businesses. My wife and kids are fine in Thailand and have plenty so as far as we are concerned the Government is doing well.

I can't say the same for anywhere in UK. Critics of Thailand seem to be heading to Vietnam and I suggest you take follow as 🇹🇭 doesn't need you or any sort of paper you flash.

@Martin *****

arrogance in abundance. I bet your one of them who went to Thailand married a Thai never learned the language but think you know what Thailand want

@Stuart ********

😂😂😂

@Stuart ********

What pathetic little man. Are you in recover?

@Martin *****

No I’m fine fit and strong.

@Martin *****

I’m currently living in RAyong and have done for the last 15 years so I suggest you learn more about someone before commenting. So seem to know so much about what Thais want. You know nothing. This is why you have closed 4 businesses because your not very good at holding on to businesses.

So i suggest you take yourself of to Vietnam. You must be in the minority about the government or have you failed to miss the protests in Bangkok and other major cities around Thailand try to learn more about your home before suggesting you know so much about your adopted country pleb

@Stuart ********

if as you say you are in Thailand I assume you have a reason for wanting your comrades to come in using test certificates that falsely describe their health. I am delighted Thais are now using 4 check points for all arrival which should help.

@Martin *****

You arrogance is is becoming why assume that my friends would use false documents in order to travel to Thailand your such a pathetic little man who most probably only went to Thailand to get a wife

@Martin *****

I never once said that Thailand should open up.

I was just commenting on the difference between 14 days and 10 days quarantine all I done was comment on why the quarantine should be different times. How could I possibly says that Thailand is going about it the wrong way. The death rate is proof they are doing something right.I have been traveling to Thailand for over 20 years and class it as the best place on this planet. If I have to wait to see my friends and family then so be it. But over that 20 years I have learned that the government haven’t always had the best interest of there people heart. All I was doing was to say that no matter where you come from quarantine is quarantine as Thailand as found out that it can get through the most rigorous of tests.

@Martin *****

every tourist contributes to the economy that’s why it’s 12% of there GDP or as your arrogance forgot that. died on the roads the first half of the years what are you actually doing about that. Funny how you want them like you got the right to determine what happens to them. On your non tourist visa

@John ******

this isn’t killing everyone’s. Most people are asymptomatic. This isn’t Ebola FFS

@Ashley *******

I'm sorry , I must have missed where I said it was killing anybody...chill mate ...its not the end of the world FFS

@John ******

Australia also . Intelligence seems to be missing . Finding a smart path is either crazy political or fairyland .

Why aren't the drug and bomb dogs being Covid trained .Why is the breath test for Covid not being employed .Singapore and Germany need to run the world not the dumb and dumber .

@Rob *****

Germany, no. They're heading back into a lockdown of sorts. Singapore is leading the way regionally.

Yes I mean the Germans leaders , they are thinkers , the German people unfortunately have a large slice of stupid in them . But Germany leaders are balancing human and medicine at acceptable levels .

@Paul ******

incorrect, Thailand had 8 in the past 24 hours.

@Shane *********

. Not in the country it didn't.. only at the borders coming from abroad, and all were kept in quarantine.

@Stuart ********

yes covid acts the same but far less people are infected in east asian / south east asian countries than in europe / america, by several orders of magnitude in fact, so for example, the risk of an infected person slipping through quarantine is the same for 100 western tourists as it would be for 100,000 or 1,000,000 asian tourists, so obviously it makes sense to prioritize the latter.

@Oliver *******

Thailand's Bureau of Epidemiology reported and additional 2922 dengue fever cases during the past week, bringing the country total to 50,660 total (DHF, DSS and dengue fever) cases. In addition, four additional dengue related deaths were reported, bringing the death toll year to date to 36.2 Sep 2020 this is masking there COVID

@Stuart ********

the symptoms of dengue fever are normally very different to covid and a few dozen deaths from that does nothing to suggest the thai government is hiding tens of thousands of covid deaths, and hundreds of thousands of covid hospitalisations, as they would need to be doing if covid is anything like as prevalent here as it is in the west. the only similarity between covid and dengue is how seriously the thai government takes it (they follow up with every dengue fever case, survey the patient on their recent movements, and send pest control teams to areas where patterns emerge to try to eradicate the mosquitoes).

@Oliver *******

can you tell the numbers of people in Thailand being tested for COVID. I doubt it how many people die in the villages that they just get on with it Thailand are only testing people entering the country. Show me the figures

@Oliver *******

but it only take one to cause a pandemic. As China can testify but you only know how many as the virus by testing what is the testing in Thailand per head of population. And how dengue fever as risen.

All deaths in the Uk 14 days after a COVID test is put down as death through COVID.

@Stuart ********

it's impossible to eliminate all risks (many people cross thailand's land borders illegally every day for example). the key is about balancing risk and return. allowing visitors in from countries where the incidence of covid is similar to thailand (with the added condition of testing and 10 days quarantine) is so close to zero risk it may as well be zero (similar to risk of a new round of mad cow disease from imported beef), and when compared to the value to the economy it's a no brainer to allow visitors from those key asian markets to return.

@Oliver *******

I agree that they should be taking small steps but a negative test is a negative test. And if after 10 or 14 days your negative your negative doesn’t matter what country your from. If I was an American or a Brit with 10 million baht to invest or require medical treatment I would be granted a visa. If after quarantine and a negative test you catch COVID then that’s Thailand’s failure. It should be about the disease not the country

@Rick ******

Wrong. You obviously are not familiar with Asian countries such as South Korea. Maybe you're getting it mixed up with North Korea.

@Rick ******

death count is the best way to judge the incidence of the virus. in most big western countries thousands of people are dying with covid every week. in east asia / south east asia countries it's been a few dozen in the last half year. it's like a different world.

@Oliver *******

, the death count is totally inaccurate since deaths caused by Covid-19 are being reported incorrectly, or not at all.

@Rick ******

I didn't happen to see your degree in epidemiology.

I have a degree in pharmacology and part of that degree has numerous classes in infectious diseases and epidemiology. What is your background?

@Rick ******

unless you believe hospitals across asia are just refusing to treat covid patients and the governments are hiding tens of thousands of dead bodies in secret mass graves and silencing all their friends, family, colleagues, and health workers, through some kind of men in black style memory eraser technology, then it's clear the incidence of covid over here is not comparable to over there.

@William ******

the virus has been under control in china (and most of east asia / south east asia) for more than half a year. it's ridiculous how long this has taken considering every month without chinese tourists is another 50,000,000,000 baht lost to the thai economy.

@Ashley *******

Yes i understand with lots of expats coming from the northern hemisphere of course . Bali in Indonesia is getting the vaccine first in Jan. because of the amateur scientists .

@Paul ******

yes good to get back to 'normal', no not at the expense of high contagion. No where is doing well, its just something we need to muddle through.

@Tony *******

muddle through indefinitely. You do realize this is never going away and people like you are contributing to it. You're accepting of totalitarian control over your life by a bunch of self-serving globalist tyrants.

@Paul ******

lol

@Tony *******

not sure having a jackboot implanted permanently on your neck is much fun.

You do realize that international travel like we once knew it is probably over, forever? If you're in Thailand be prepared to never leave again. You might be fine with that, especially if you're retired. But just saying...

@Paul ******

Friday should be moan free day, Buttercup 🤣

@Tony *******

yes keep living in your state of ignorance. Hopefully you won't be "moaning" when the military arrive at your doorstep with the covid shot.

@Paul ******

🤣🤣

@Rory *******

not sure their logic will get their desired result ...10 days quarantine might encourage a few from those countries, but NO quarantine , then that's different again ...that would be the kicker for many thousands to return , and that to me is the LOGICAL way forward ...tests before leaving and on arrival a further safeguard

@John ******

yeah, I agree. Don't think it will do much in the grand scheme of things.

Jason Jones they do, I live here. Read above comments.

@William ***********

Agree With Your Version

@Stuart ********

what makes you think the bars of pattaya or koh samui would be a priority for government policy making? no other nationality of tourists comes close to the contribution of the chinese to the thai economy...

@Oliver *******

they might individually contribute more than any other single county but if you think that they can ignore the other 1.2trillion that the rest contribute .

They all ready being investigated for falsely propping up the Baht. And there doubts over whether there figures can be trusted.

@Stuart ********

you are right there. they should try to find a way to rescue as much of the international tourism as possible but should prioritise the big asian markets, which are also characterised by the best risk-return balance, as well as having the most potential for future growth.

@Oliver *******

a negative test is a negative test. The STV visa that allowed around 150 Chinese tourist in ( although denied by China ) is a shambles . Anti government protests 14 day quarantine 0 baht in a bank account who do you think are going to want to come. China not allowing tour groups to leave China. This virus needs herd humanity. Cases are rising in Europe because we are testing more. No one knows the figure of testing in Thailand

@Stuart ********

thailand has done 4 tests with 3830 positive results (far lower rate of positivity than all western countries)



false negatives can occur during the incubation period, which is why quarantine exists, and part of the reason why western countries are completely failing to get the virus under control.

@Oliver *******

4 in a country with 70 million that’s less than 2% of the country and them test are of people of Bangkok no testing in the provinces

@Oliver *******

Yep. The Chinese need to be let in ASAP. Once they can come in without quarantine it opens the door to other nationalities.

@B**

it isn't contained in many places.... Offer me your list of which countries you think have done well.... No need for irrational rhetoric here, the global stats clearly denunciate which nations have earned an F on the exam