Phuket checkpoint to reopen 24 hours

The Phuket Check Point will be open 24 hours a day again, starting tomorrow (Oct 1), V/Gov Pichet confirmed. Photo: PR Phuket

By The Phuket News

PHUKET: The Phuket Check Point at Tha Chatchai, the only gateway onto the island by road, will be open 24 hours a day, starting tomorrow (Oct 1), Phuket Vice Governor Pichet Panapong has confirmed.

Vice Governor Pichet confirmed the all-day, all-night reopening of the checkpoint at a meeting held at Provincial Hall yesterday (Sept 29) to clarify for officials the reopening conditions in effect for reopening the island to domestic visitors.

V/Gov Pichet repeated that all people will be allowed onto the island as long as they have been fully vaccinated and can prove testing negative for COVID-19 by RT-PCR test or antigen test kit (ATK) no more than seven days before arrival.

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