(VOVWORLD) - Thailand is considering reinstating mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors due to concerns over the spread of Omicron, as the health ministry reported on Monday the country's first case of local transmission of the coronavirus variant.
 COVID-19 rules are strictly enforced at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters/File Photo) |
The public health ministry will propose scrapping a quarantine waiver for vaccinated visitors and revert to hotel quarantine and a "sandbox" programme, which allows free movement in specific locations.
The first locally transmitted case was found in a Thai woman who tested positive to Omicron after contracting the virus from her husband, a Colombian who returned to Thailand from Nigeria in late November, a health ministry official told a daily briefing.
Both the husband and the wife had been fully vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, he said.