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International travellers who have already received their COVID-19 booster shots will now be permitted to visit Indonesia with a three-day quarantine period.

The Lao government has cut the required quarantine period for new arrivals from 14 days to seven days for certain groups of visitors.

Malaysia on January 20 reduced quarantine period to five days from the previous seven for arrivals who had received booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Indonesian government on January 3 decided to shorten the quarantine period for arrivals, including those who were from Omicron-hit countries.

The Indonesian government is promoting the establishment of a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with Australia – one of the key tourist markets of the Southeast Asian nation, in a bid to revive its non-smoke industry, said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno.

As Cambodia moves closer towards ‘reopening’, the Southeast Asian country recorded it’s lowest daily new case total since April 6.

The Cambodian government decided to shorten the quarantine period from October 18. However, the absence of regular commercial flights to Cambodia from the main tourist hubs and people traveling for business purposes is raising concerns about a lack of international visitors.

Indonesia's Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the quarantine period for foreign tourists is expected to be reduced from 8 days to 5 days.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 17 asked the Tourism Ministry to consider reopening tourism for vaccinated international tourists to visit Cambodia with a seven-day quarantine period.

The Ministry of Health on July 14 issued updated guidelines on the mandatory quarantine period and details of a pilot home quarantine scheme for people who came into direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) said it has just sent a document to regional airport authorities, airlines, and Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) about the adjustment period of mandatory centralised quarantine from 14 to at least 21 days for air passengers entering the country from abroad.

The compulsory concentrated COVID-19 quarantine period in Vietnam has been officially extended to 21 days.

The compulsory concentrated COVID-19 quarantine period in Vietnam has been officially extended to 21 days.

The Ministry of Health has recently sent a document on the extension of the concentrated quarantine period to directors of Centres for Disease Control (CDC), and Preventive Medicine Centres nationwide.

Thailand will shorten its quarantine period for foreign travellers with COVID-19 vaccination certificates from 14 to 10 days from April 1, to foster tourism.

The mandatory COVID-19 quarantine period in Malaysia is shortened from 14 days to 10 days, beginning on December 14.

Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the Foreign Ministry to expedite the relaxation of restrictions on foreigners entering the country.

Thailand's Public Health Emergency Operation Centre has approved the proposal to reduce the mandatory quarantine period for tourists under the special tourist visa (STV), including those from Vietnam, from 14 to 10 days.

The HCM City Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals to take care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, in order to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.

The Lao Health Ministry said at a press conference on April 27 that the country has not recorded any more cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, marking the 15th consecutive day in a row the country has seen no new COVID-19 cases.