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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Wednesday announced the timeline of five Covid-19 patients who are medical personnel at Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) facilities.

BNH Hospital confirmed that four of its health staff working in an alternative state quarantine (ASQ) unit in Bangkok have tested positive for Covid-19.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has joined up with real-estate firm Locanation and the ASQ Thailand Club to develop the ASQ Tourist Information Centre.

The Public Health Ministry is joining forces with online hotel booking platform Agoda to help Thais and foreigners book their stay at an alternative state quarantine facility.

At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha dismissed speculation that using golf courses as alternative state quarantine sites for foreigners would be a conflict of interest as some courses are owned by ministers.

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Public Health, will propose to the Centre for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) to allow foreigners to quarantine in golf clubs, with an aim to serve golfers from four Asian countries.

The Public Health Ministry has set up a panel to assess the 101 alternative state quarantine centres (ASQs) and see if allowing quarantined people to use hotel facilities will put others at risk.

As many as 23 hotels in Koh Samui have been proposed as alternative local state quarantine (ALSQ) sites and most of them are expected to pass the grade, the tourism sector said.

Some hotels in Koh Samui will be proposed this week to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to be considered for alternative state quarantine (ASQ) in order to help the local economy.

Fourteen five-star hotels in Phuket have put their names forward as alternative state quarantine options and two – Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas and Trisara Hotel – have passed the Public Health Ministry’s criteria.

The government has published the list of hotels under the Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) scheme, which offers travellers to Thailand an alternative to state quarantine facilities.