12 The Deposit Protection Agency (DPA) said deposit protection would be limited at 1 million baht per depositor per financial institution at 35 financial institutions on Aug 11.
33 A foreign woman was found dead half-naked at the Ao Yon waterfall in Muang district. Police initially believed she was murdered while resisting a rape attempt.
151 Thailand reported on Friday 21,379 coronavirus cases and 191 more deaths, the data from the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration showed.
23 The Department of Disease Control deployed 60 volunteer motorcyclists to send medications and essentials to COVID-19 patients at their homes in Bangkok.
52 The Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science at Chulalongkorn University introduced Thailand’s first favipiravir syrup for COVID-infected children and patients with swallowing difficulty.
11 The Phuket municipal office closed a local market for seven days due to COVID-19 infections among migrant workers.
20 Rescue volunteers urged the government to solve the problem of widespread substandard oximeters which they said harmed users.
14 Thailand reported on Thursday a record 20,920 coronavirus cases and 160 more deaths in a day.
19 The Bank of Thailand’s Monetary Policy Committee voted 4 to 2 to maintain the policy rate at 0.50 percent in the meeting on Wednesday.
27 There were seven new clusters of COVID-19 infections covering altogether 204 patients in four provinces while Bangkok logged the most new daily fatalities, according to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration.
9 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) and its chairman Boon Vanasin to explain within seven days its agreement with the Defence Ministry to import the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer.
30 Thailand received 415,000 donated doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca from the United Kingdom at Suvarnabhumi airport at 9pm on Aug 3.
