Hospitels and alternative quarantine (AQ) facilities have returned to normal hotel operations as Covid-19 is expected to be declared endemic next month.
Thienprasit Chaiyapatranun, vice-president of the Thai Hotels Association, said hospitels, which are hotels that offer beds for patients with mild symptoms, finished operations last month, helping to ease the healthcare burden throughout the peak period of infections.
People infected with the Omicron variant mostly preferred to choose home isolation rather than hospitels, compared with patients infected with the more severe Delta variant last year.
