34 Rising star Athiwat Paeng-Nuea, 18, won a Paralympic gold in the 100m T54 wheelchair race by finishing in 13.76 seconds.
19 The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking revised its forecast on the gross domestic product of the country up by 1% to range between a 0.5% decline and a 1.0% expansion this year as the local COVID-19 situation is improving and the government will be procuring more vaccine doses.
48 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the government was monitoring the COVID-19 situation in the country and would later consider curfew relaxation.
21 Police charged a surgeon with drink-driving after he smashed his Porsche into a Honda car and killed two people.
28 Phuket will welcome Thai tourists from Sept 8 onwards and those who will stay longer than a week must be tested for COVID-19 there.
31 Zuellig Pharma, the local dealer of the COVID-19 vaccine by Moderna, has confirmed that delivery will start in the fourth quarter of this year for Thailand’s acquisition of 1,958,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine, according to the Government Pharmaceutical Organization.
15 Shopping centers will reopen and dining-in at eateries will resume tomorrow as allowed by the government in accordance with its eased COVID-19 control measures.
18 Flooding already ended at the Bangpoo Industrial Estate which had been more than one meter under water over the past two days.
29 Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha arrived at the parliament for a censure debate and confirmed he was ready for it.
15 The cabinet allocated 4.74 billion baht to procure 9.9 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer mainly for children aged 12-17 years and women who are pregnant for at least 12 weeks.
33 The cabinet today discussed measures related to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration’s decision to ease lockdown measures in 29 dark-red provinces as new COVID-19 cases were declining.
385 The Public Health Ministry plans to acquire second-generation vaccines in the first quarter of next year to cope with COVID-19 mutations.
