
Bangkok Pubs Closed, Workers Vaccinated
Bangkok city hall is trying to control Covid-19 clusters from entertainment venues as almost 200 entertainment places were ordered to close for two weeks.
Bangkok city hall is trying to control Covid-19 clusters from entertainment venues as almost 200 entertainment places were ordered to close for two weeks.
Thailand will receive 500,000 more doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Sinovac on April 19-20 and the government will impose stricter disease control measures on all entertainment places, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
The next parliament session will be organized on April 7-8 as earlier scheduled because a member of the parliament who met the infected Japanese ambassador tested negative for COVID-19.
Thailand logged as many as 194 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours including 94 people at the Narathiwat prison which also spread the disease to Sura Thani province.
Numerous COVID-19 cases from entertainment places may force the government to review its disease control measures for the Sonkran festival, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Another team of rally leaders announced their demands for constitutional amendment and the resignation of the prime minister during their demonstration at the Santiporn Park.
The Central Administrative Court ruled against the Finance Ministry’s order for former PM Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 35 billion baht in compensation for her graft-plagued rice-pledging scheme.
Police seized 1,150 grenades and 6,000 M16 bullets destined for Myanmar and arrested six suspects including an air force sergeant.
The Public Health Ministry was investigating the death of the assistant abbot of Wat Samphanthawong that happened a day after he had been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The injection of the second lot of 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses in Phuket started on Thursday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will visit a border area in Mae Hong Son province tomorrow.
The Thai government on Thursday kicked off the four-phase reopening plan for vaccinated foreign tourists, travelling to five pilot provinces.