BANGKOK: Thailand announced on Friday it would drop rules requiring people to wear masks outdoors and no longer require foreign visitors to register before traveling, as Covid-19 cases fall and the kingdom seeks to lure tourists back.

Face masks have been compulsory in public in the Southeast Asian country, including outdoors, since mid-2021, when the Delta variant of the coronavirus was running rampant.

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