The government has made plans to handle a surge in cases following the reopening of the country's border on Monday, a senior doctor told Thai Enquirer.
Thailand opened its borders to vaccinated travelers on Monday from a list of 'safe countries' in a bid to kickstart the economy.
Travelers entering the kingdom will be able to travel freely after a negative result from a PCR test. The move, the government admits, will likely see a surge in new cases.
"The surge wont come from the arriving tourists but the service industry that supports them and from the behavior of locals," a senior doctor at Siriraj told Thai Enquirer.
"We are going to open bars and shopping malls and will see a surge of cases in a few weeks."
The doctor said that the fortunate thing is that the majority of people in big cities including Bangkok have received at least one dose of Covid vaccine.
"What you will see is the number of cases make spike but hospitalization and deaths will be low like you see in the United Kingdom and France," he said. "It is a calculated risk but its one the prime minister views as necessary because of the way the economy is going."
The doctor added that contingency measures were in place and he was confident the public health system would not be overstretched.
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