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17 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I find that excuse a bit lame because of the Vegetarian Festival. they would have been in quarantine would they not?

From my understanding, these 120 Chinese tourists simply signed up to come to Thailand. That list was given to the TAT which in turn gave it to immigration to allow entry. They had not obtained visas (Thai embassies confirmed), they had not done COVID tests as they were to arrive on private aircraft and meet with busses to tour Thailand... no quarantine.

On 9/17/2020 at 8:32 AM, darksidedog said:

Aside from those desperate to return to businesses and family it is hard to see them needing more than 1,200 a month anyway, as not many will put up with the 14 day quarantine, when they don't have to put up with that in so many other places. Covid will come back at some point, it's inevitable. The economy is taking a serious beating and while they are trying to downplay the extent, millions are suffering hardship. A common sense approach is what is needed, but which is currently seriously lacking.

I had initially thought it would be around 1,200 people a day as surely Thailand has enough beds to accommodate 16,000 people over the 14-day rotation and we would have about 1,200 tourists being released into the economy each day after their quarantine period.  But I am sure this allowable entry number will go up quickly as more hotels/hospitals get onboard.