Aid for Workers, Operators in 6 Provinces
The cabinet approved one-month financial aid for workers and employers in six provinces under maximum and strict COVID-19 control.
The cabinet approved one-month financial aid for workers and employers in six provinces under maximum and strict COVID-19 control.
The number of COVID-19 cases from a sewing factory in Mae Sot district has exceeded 600 and overcrowded two local field hospitals.
The government has warned that political rallies at several locations tomorrow (June 24) can spread COVID-19.
The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) ordered serious disease control measures as patients from an Islamic center in Yala were spreading throughout the South except Chumphon and Ranong provinces.
The number of COVID-19 cases is rising in Songkhla province and they are linked to a cluster at an Islamic center of Yala province.
Bangkok and adjacent provinces of Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan remain as dark red zones of maximum and strict Covid-19 control in the zoning adjustment, announced by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday.
Officials in the southern border province installed 300 more beds at their field hospitals as COVID-19 cases were increasing at two factories.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told the parliament that the government had to borrow 500 billion baht to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak and stimulate the economy. He also promised to spend the borrowings carefully and acquire enough COVID-19 vaccines.
The Public Health Ministry said that the new variant of COVID-19 known as C.36.3 that was detected in Britain was not a Thai variant of the virus.
Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, denied there was a Thai variant of COVID-19.
Thailand on Thursday reported 47 new Covid-19 deaths over the past 24 hours, a new daily record and 3,323 new infections.
COVID-19 vaccination began at the Bang Sue Grand Station for registrants in the transport sector who showed up in the morning for inoculation.