Thailand has banned travelers coming from Bangladesh on the back of the first confirmed cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19.
Thailand has also prohibited travelers from Nepal and Pakistan. There has been a ban on foreigners arriving from India to Thailand since the first day of this month.
Thailand Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat said today that the Thai embassies in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan had now also stopped issuing certificates of entry for non-Thai nationals, from today until further notice.
Thai people were still permitted to apply for the document, which is needed to come back to Thailand during the pandemic, he said.
The ban followed the detection of the Indian variant, coded B.1.617.1, in a Thai woman and her son who returned from Pakistan, declared by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration today.
The CCSA had indicated earlier today, during its daily briefing, that entry would be prohibited from three other countries amid concerns of more cases of the Indian variant.
A certificate of entry is, at present, mandatory for everyone wanting to visit Thailand
