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Thailand's public health minister said on Monday that his ministry will propose reinstating mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors due to concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant.

The proposal would scrap the current quarantine waiver for vaccinated visitors and revert to hotel quarantine and the sandbox" programme, which allows free movement within a specific location, Anutin Charnvirakul told the Inside Thailand television show.