Faster than a football match!
"When the facility was set up on July 1st at the airport's Point of Care RT-PCR laboratory, it took an estimated 90 minutes to determine if the arriving passenger tested positive or negative for Covid-19," said CCSA spokesman Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin.
"Now the airport lab is capable of testing 170 arriving passengers per day," said Suthirawat Suwanawat, general manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport.
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