
5,406 New COVID Cases, Bangkok Had Most
The country logged 5,406 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours and Bangkok still had the most cases at 1,678.
The country logged 5,406 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours and Bangkok still had the most cases at 1,678.
SURIN, June 28 (TNA) – Cambodian workers crossed the border at the immigration checkpoint of this northeastern province to return to the homeland as Thailand started sealing off construction worker camps in Greater Bangkok and four southern border provinces today. The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) headed by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-ocha decided […]
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has intensified its measures to control COVID-19 including the one-month-long closure of construction workers’ camps.
The government rushed into preparing more hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in Bangkok where there were as many as 107 clusters of the disease’s outbreaks, rising by eight over the past 24 hours.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha remained undecided if Bangkok should be locked down for seven days to control COVID-19, saying the issue needed careful consideration.
The Food and Drug Administration registered the COVID-19 vaccine of Pfizer Co that will be administered for people aged 12 years and over. It raises the number of registered COVID-19 vaccines in the country to six.
The parliament passed only the constitutional amendment bill of the Democrat Party which concerns changes to the election of House representatives.
Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda formed a committee to investigate the installation of street lamp posts in many areas of Samut Prakan province and assured that wrongdoers would be punished.
Hundreds of police and security guards were deployed to handle demonstrators at the parliament complex as the latter called for constitutional amendments.
An ex-conscript broke into a field hospital for COVID-19 patients and shot dead one of them after killing an employee at a convenience store in Phahon Yothin area.
Leaders of the Ratsadorn Group and about 500 followers gathered at the Democracy Monument at 5am to remember the Siamese Revolution on June 24, 1932.
The Thai economy will grow by 1.8% this year limited by the third wave of COVID-19 in the country and then expand by 4.2% next year, according to Fitch Ratings.