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Covid paranoia

Re: “‘Swab hubs’ for arriving tourists,” (BP, Oct 16).

When will Thai officials abandon their misguided paranoia over the potential for foreign visitors to introduce additional Covid-19 cases to the country? Perhaps those obsessed with screening, swabbing, testing, probing, monitoring and tracking foreigners should look around and recognise that Covid-19 is already ubiquitous in the kingdom. The risk to Thais lies within the country already, not with the visit of a few fully vaccinated foreign tourists. The only thing that the multitude of checks and complicated requirements thrown up for foreign travellers serves to accomplish is to drive them to holiday in more visitorfriendly destinations.

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