Thailand says airlines may face virus medical bills

Bloomberg

Thailand’s aviation regulator said airlines should ask passengers coming from high-risk territories for health certificates to establish they are free of the new coronavirus.
Travellers who can’t provide documentation should be prevented from boarding flights to the Asian nation, according to a Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand notice posted. Carriers are liable for treatment costs if they fly in people who become sick with Covid-19, the notice said.
The new framework applies to six territories: China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Iran and Italy. Thailand has designated them danger zones for infection, as it steps up efforts against Covid-19 after so far restricting the number of confirmed cases to 50. The Tourism Authority of Thailand said that travellers coming from the six regions “will undergo 14 days quarantine.”