Airline passengers to/from South East Asia and beyond have the option again to use Bangkok\'s Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) as a transit point without specific clearance documents (Covid free test, health insurance still required) for a period of up to 12 hours. The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand has imposed tough restrictions on transit passengers at BKK Airport since July 2020 but these have now been relaxed so that transits are possible again but still passengers are severely limited in their movements. Since Thai Airways is still grounded except for their \'special flights\' as they call the repatriation trips the connections

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday dismissed news reports suggesting Thailand was the source of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it had conducted tests on various types of wildlife claimed to have contained the virus that causes the disease and found the claims were untrue.