NDO/VNA - Four border crossing checkpoints between Thailand and Cambodia could be reopened by December 16 if approved by Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) and the Cambodian Government.

Thailand has proposed that employers on the Thai side of the border pick up Cambodian workers looking for jobs cutting sugarcane at the Sa Kaew border and quarantine them at the sugarcane plantations. Once the job is done, the employers can inform related agencies before shifting the workers to other areas.

Thailand will also limit a maximum of 3,000 Cambodian vendors to trade at its Rong Kluea market daily, provided they strictly adhere to COVID-19 prevention measures.

Thai government agencies in Sa Kaew will launch an additional COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the province to improve efforts in curbing the spread of the pandemic.

The CCSA has lifted the night-time curfew in the last six provinces and eased more restrictions as part of the measures to revitalise the economy and tourism sector.

CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said Tak, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla will be removed from the most dangerous list from December 1, ending the night-time ban in the provinces.

Starting December, the country will also allow travellers to enter the country by land and sea, change the COVID-19 testing method for air travellers and allow tourists to visit more provinces.

However, all night entertainment facilities will remain closed to mid-January 2022 due to concern over possible resurgence of COVID-19 during the New Year holiday.

A CCSA meeting on November 26 chaired by Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha also extended the state of emergency by two months to the end of January 2022.