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Govt to scrap Day-5 PCR test, cut insurance cost for Test & Go arrivals

In this file photo taken on Oct 30, 2021, tourists walk along Phra Nang beach in Krabi. (AFP)

The government will further relax entry rules for foreign visitors starting next month, bowing to demand from the local tourism industry to lower costs as more countries ease border controls to lure holidaymakers.

Vaccinated arrivals to Thailand will not be required to undergo a mandatory polymerase chain reaction test on the fifth day of the arrival starting March 1. Instead, they can do a self-antigen test, scrapping the requirement to have a confirmed hotel reservation for the test.    

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