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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the “Test and Go” initiative. For those who have been watching this channel with frequency, you will remember this came online end of November of 2021 to much rejoicing to start seeing some tourists start to come back to Thailand only to have it suspended on December 21 of that same year.

Now hopefully we have finally turned a corner with this and it looks like it is going to be brought back online February 1 but there are some slight caveats to it. So a couple of things. First off, we are going to go ahead and quote here from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, article is titled: "Test and Go" to resume February 1 with extra test requirement. There is a little more to this and I may not totally go into a lot of detail on this video about some of the documentation requirements but this one is just going to be more about the well just some of these extra hoops for lack of a better term, you have got to jump through. Quoting directly: "The "Test and Go" program for international visitors is set to resume on February 1 with stricter requirements which include another RT-PCR test to be taking on the fifth day following entry into Thailand, the Government said yesterday." 

So let's be clear, "another RT-PCR test, so it has to be taking on the fifth day; this is apparently after you are released. As we haven't got to February 1 yet, we have yet to see exactly how this is going to play out practically but we should be keeping you updated on this channel as that evolved. Quoting further: "Under the program, overseas visitors must spend one night in a Certified Hotel while they wait for the results of their RT-PCR test taken upon their arrival in the country to come out." So you come in, you go into the hotel, you take a test that night, if it comes up negative you get out the next day; that's how it works. Quoting further: "Those who test negative COVID-19 are then allowed to leave and explore the rest of the country." Quoting further: "When "Test and Go" resumes on February 1, travelers will be required to take 2 RT-PCR tests, one on the first day and another on the fifth day said the spokesman for the Centre of COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), that is Taweesilp Visanuyothin. 

So, you go in on the first day you are here, you do your night and you test negative, you leave. You have got to do another RT-PCR test at some point, and again the practicalities of this look a little vague. It sounds like maybe you stay at the same hotel and then you are going to test at the same hotel. I don't know if they are going to be setting up facilities to do this off site. It remains to be seen but again we will certainly keep you updated as the situation evolves.