52 Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on opened the “Eastern Monthong Best Quality” fair to promote Monthong durian export.
228 The Criminal Court sentenced a crowd-control policeman, 21, to one year and 15 days in jail for fatally hitting a doctor on a zebra crossing in January.
137 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is worried about unvaccinated people as the numbers of COVID-19-infected people who suffer lung inflammation, depend on ventilators and died are increasing, according to the government spokesman.
66 The first cargo train fully loaded with Thai durian has arrived in China through the new Chinese-Lao railway service.
35 The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday, decided to relax disease controls from May 1, ending control (orange) zones during its meeting on Friday.
51 The Test & Go entry scheme including its compulsory RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 on arrival will end on May 1 and be replaced with simple self-antigen tests, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said.
38 Ayuth Sintoppant, director-general of the Corrections Department, dismissed a prison guard pending disciplinary and criminal investigations into alleged extortion against an inmate’s daughter.
19 The Layer Farmer Association said the ex-farm price of chicken eggs in mixed sizes rose from 3.40 baht to 3.50 baht per egg today.
16 The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration will revoke a compulsory RT-PCR test upon arrival on foreign visitors and recommend they do an antigen test for COVID-19 in 24 hours instead.
17 The Democrat Party insists it will not intervene in investigation into sexual harassment and rape allegations against its former deputy leader and will help victims, according to its executive.
15 Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul received 200,000 doses of donated COVOVAX from Australia, India, Japan and the United States and they will be administered with unvaccinated people and those who are allergic to other vaccines to protect them from COVID-19.
60 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is satisfied with the “Air Travel Bubble” plan to promote tourism between Thailand and India as restrictions on international travel will be relaxed, according to the government spokesman.
