22 Thailand is considering limits on exports of locally manufactured AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines.
20 Amid partial business lockdowns in Greater Bangkok, beauty salons and hairdressers’ shops can continue to operate if they stand outside shopping centers and the likes, according to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration.
42 Sixty-nine “COVID-19 Comprehensive Response Teams” will start mass COVID-19 testing in 69 communities of Bangkok tomorrow.
11 The Government Pharmaceutical Organization filed a defamation complaint against academic Loy Chunpongtong and Dr Boon Vanasin, chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group PCL, for the allegation that it was making profit from its import of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna.
16 The Chulabhorn Royal Academy said it did not plan to administer different COVID-19 vaccines for the first and second doses because they were newly developed for emergency use only.
18 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha does not oppose the idea of inoculating people against COVID-19 with different kinds of vaccines in series, according to the government spokesman.
48 The National Communicable Disease Committee ordered medical workers to provide general people with the Sinovac vaccine as the first jab and the AstraZeneca vaccine as the second jab.
7 The Thai government officially received 1,053,090 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca from the Japanese government.
31 The National Health Security Office opened centers for rapid COVID-19 tests in Greater Bangkok today and test results can be known within 30 minutes.
16 Two more visitors to Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox project tested positive for COVID-19. They are Myanmar nationals aged eight and nine years.
13 The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced harsher Covid-19 restrictions in Greater Bangkok and four southern border provinces, classified as the dark red zone areas to contain the spread of Covid-19 after the increases in daily new cases and fatalities.
22 Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said he would not receive his salary for three months and the money would be spent on attempts to contain the COVID-19 crisis of the country.
