4 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Then how can they deny them without a Fit to Fly certificate ?

 

 

 

A bit contradictory Thais have to have a Fit to Fly Cert. but not a Covid Test, would the Doctor not test for Covid before issuing a Cert. ?

13 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I respectfully disagree. Thailand moved quickly to close the borders. When you eradicate the virus internally, then the only infections come from outside. You can see where the infections are coming easily....15 returning from India. If people were contracting coronavirus within Thailand you would know about it....where are the mass graves? Where are the refrigerated temporary morgues? They don't exist because COVID is not being transmitted within Thailand. This poses a huge problem for the authorities....at the moment the population of Thailand are safe from COVID....but once they open the borders without quarantine the virus will run riot here as there is no immunity. Thailand can only safely open up when other countries have stopped the virus within their borders.

And that is never going to happen. So, at some stage the towel will have to be thrown in and Thailand will have to open its borders again. I imagine this will be done in very small increments and in-country quarantine requirement is going to be with us for quite a while.

20 hours ago, Mung said:

Wrong, you must have a very poor memory. 
Thailand had it's first case January 13th, they did not close the borders until April 4th! A national emergency was not established until late March. They waited 10 weeks to close the borders after their first infection, and you think this was a quick response? They were one of the last in SE Asia to do so, even though they had the first case in the world after China.
They also allowed 80,000 Wuhan tourists to enter throughout a 7 week period, while all of the images were coming out of China of people fainting and dying, and hospitals being crowded. This was before we knew basically anything about the virus. 
Thailand went from under-reacting as if nothing was happening, to totally overreacting. People seem to have a very short memory 

 

Nailed it.