The Ministry of Public Health has revoked the previous declaration associated with seven countries since Covid-19 danger zones, citing an improvement in the pandemic situation as well as the global vaccination insurance against coronavirus.
The decision to eliminate Italy, Iran, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia from the list of dangerous crisis areas was reached at a meeting from the national committee upon disease control kept on Friday.
Signed simply by Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the particular announcement was published in the Royal Gazette and arrived to effect yesterday.
With the Omicron variant appearing to be much less virulent than its predecessors, from July 1 Thailand provides eased most of the remaining Covid-19 limitations.
Merely a small number of imported bacterial infections have been detected among tens of thousands of arrivals per day, said Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit, permanent secretary for public health.
The particular seven countries’ removal from the list had been one of two key decisions made by the committee on Friday, he said.
The other was the announcement of monkeypox because Thailand’s 56th communicable disease.
However , no situation of the disease has been detected in Thailand so far, he said.
Based on the World Health Corporation, more than 6, 500 cases of monkeypox worldwide have been documented across 58 nations.