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One of the three Covid policy insurance companies linked to when you apply for Thailand Pass. 30 days cover for anyone up to the age of 85, no questions asked, covers the $10k cover they require (it actually covers for $20k). Took me two minutes to apply and pay and receive my policy that I could upload to TP. 650 baht, what is the big deal for people here? If you genuinely need help DM me and I can give you the company details, so easy.

Another tiresome comment. You can use any foreign insurance company you like. They provide three very low cost local options if you need it (650 baht for me just now) but otherwise use whoever you want. Thailand Pass is free, no one is getting rich from this. It's just another idiotic Thai bashing thing to say.

It is 650 baht. If you can afford to self insure you can afford 650 baht. Guess what? I self insure, but I am going to the UK this month so I spunked the 650 baht to get the insurance cover for Thailand Pass. Crazy spender, I know. And that 650 baht covers people up to 85 years of age with no questions. Why do people on here have to make massive mountains out of things that are barely even molehills?

Exactly the same. I just did it for the first time as I'm going to the UK. Was expecting it to me a nightmare after all the moaning you read on here.........then you realise most of those moaning have probably never even done it. It was really pretty simple, fill out some info, upload a few images. 5 minutes max. Really not that big a deal. And like someone else has said if that puts you off then how the hell do you manage to book a flight or a hotel? Would I rather I didn't have to do it? Of course, and I expect pretty soon you won't have to. Was it difficult or troublesome? Not in the least. And the insurance cost me a whopping 650 baht.

That's excellent!

How incredibly interesting and not at all irrelevant.

Spot on.

When you see a headline like this you know it is to get the TVF populace in a froth and it never fails. I don't like Anutin at all, let's get that out of the way. But consider Thais are covered under the 30 baht health scheme and/or social security, tourists are not. They are obviously going to do this in steps, next step (within a month is my bet) is that this requirement is done away with entirely for everyone. Step by step. But really, think about it and don't just react to the headline, and explain to me......how is this xenophobic or racist? It is the first step in withdrawing these requirements and Thais are covered for medical by their government already. If you are a foreigner employed by a Thai (or foreign) company you are also covered under social security and don't need this insurance either. Where is the racism there? If, in a month or so, numbers still drop they will remove this for the rest I am sure. If a Thai wants to travel to the Schengen zone as part of their visa application they need to prove they have €30k medical insurance cover, EU citizens do not. Is this racist? Please answer me that. And is this an "insurance scam" as everyone on here likes to bleat that the Thai insurance requirement is? (even though you can buy from foreign insurance companies).

Jeez. You do realise this is a land border crossing where most people going across the border are small time traders, people trying to earn a living, and usually coming back the same day. They are not jetting off from Bangkok and staying in 5-star hotels so of course they don't have 7,000 baht for an ATK test! Your lack of compassion is astounding, but not surprising given the rest of your post.

Considering this article is about the number of people who arrived on the 1st May (Sunday) after restrictions were lifted then they were probably on a flight. And probably only around 2,000 of that 21,000 went to Phuket anyway, the rest landed in Bangkok then went wherever they wanted to.

Ok, I'll entertain you as I am quite bored at the moment, I counted 134 international flights arriving at BKK today. Count them (that previous site only shows a time period, not the whole day): https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/bkk/arrivals And 26 international flights arrived in Phuket today. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/hkt/arrivals Happy? Anything you want to say about that? Seriously, what possible reason would there be for them to make up a (fairly low in the scheme of things) number of international flights arriving? Especially as the information is so easily verifiable. The level of paranoia on this site is comical, it's just an article about how many people arrived on the first day of the lifting of Test & Go. It's not even a big number. But oh no, there are people on this site who are too smart to be fooled by this. Laughable. And sad.

Oh dear. Maths is obviously not your strong point......neither is logic. Each passenger does not take 15 minutes at the desk!! If you say there are 40 desks open between BKK and Phuket and flights land over a 14 hour period (I have no idea how many desks are currently open but that seems reasonable), then it means each desk is processing 37 passengers per hour which seems perfectly normal. Take it over an 18 hour period and it is 29 passengers per hour per desk, so two minutes per person. In reality the numbers are probably over a 24 hour period.

They are not counting the domestic flights, it is 120 international flights. Spread between two airports it really isn't a lot so I have no idea why the other poster doesn't believe it.

Wow you are so clever not to be fooled that 120 international flights arrived in Bangkok and Phuket yesterday. How many flights do you think arrived then? And what's your secret source of info? You can go and count today's if you like: https://www.bangkokairportonline.com/flight-status-arrivals-departures/ Of course no doubt this is a scam flight status website set up just to FOOL PEOPLE for the reason that, erm, I don't know, you tell me....

Just as I thought I would get through the comments on a single post without anyone coming up with some desperately contrived way to bring submarines in to it..........and there you are. P.S. You forgot "dirty farangs" and "brown envelopes". You really must try harder if you want more likes from your fellow cliche posters..

Erm, it is an announcement about doing away with restrictions...........but that's the government controlling us, righty ho.

She hardly had a "very bad day". She is dead, probably through no fault of her own.

No, because Thai horror movies are not filmed in Imax.

It's about the risk of a Metaverse land price bubble and investors being warned about it.

Next year???? Don't you think things might have changed by then?

Which word made up in Thailand are you referring to?

Way to see the negative in a positive thing, the perfect TVF response!! So you think they should not relax the restrictions just so those people who are arriving in the next 7-8 days don't feel bad?

There's that good old TVF paranoia cropping up again. An article about Thais and foreign tourists breaking Covid rules and you see racism???? Some people on here have a terrible complex, it's really quite sad.

Utter rubbish. Only serious cases (sever symptoms) go to hospital. Why do people keep posting this nonsense?

That's been the rule for Thais and foreigners for ages - there has never been a difference in how Thais and foreigners are treated in this aspect. It's been months since they hospitalised positive cases...