Tourism-driven Thailand softens 'compulsory' self-isolation language


  • World
  • Friday, 06 Mar 2020

A woman wearing a protective mask against coronavirus makes is having her nails done in a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Officials in tourism-reliant Thailand sought on Friday to ease worries about new self-quarantine measures for arrivals from six countries and territories with coronavirus, a day after announcing compulsory isolation.

There had been days of confusion as officials gave different explanations of regulations that could further damage tourism, which accounts for about 12% of Thailand’s economy.

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