Chinese tourists set to return to Thailand

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Thailand will receive its first foreign holidaymakers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel curbs

, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The country has kept coronavirus infections low with just 3559 cases and 59 deaths, but its economy has taken a hit from a ban on foreign visitors since April and is expected to contract 8.5 per cent this year.Advertisement "We are not opening the country, we are limiting the number of entries and will manage with wrist bands, apps to follow them," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters.

In January Thailand was the first country outside of China to detect the coronavirus, in a visitor from Wuhan.

 

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