10 The Modern Trade Sentiment Index fell to its lowest point in three years on the heavy impacts of COVID-19.
20 Thailand logged 19,603 new COVID-19 cases and 149 new fatalities, according to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration.
16 The Rural Doctor Society urged people to ask the government to reduce the export of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Siam Bioscience.
20 The Public Health Ministry was distributing 645,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech to hospitals for the protection of vulnerable groups of people.
33 The governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand ordered efforts to restore tourists’ confidence in safe and attractive Phuket after the murder of a Swiss tourist in this southern island province last week.
12 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration set up six COVID-19 testing units which will start services tomorrow (Aug 7).
40 Phuket governor Narong Woonciew expressed his condolences on the death of Swiss woman Nicole Sauvain-Weisskopf, head of diplomatic protocol of Germany, who visited Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox Model project.
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.
154 Thailand reported on Friday 21,379 coronavirus cases and 191 more deaths, the data from the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration showed.
24 The Department of Disease Control deployed 60 volunteer motorcyclists to send medications and essentials to COVID-19 patients at their homes in Bangkok.
56 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.
