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  • UPDATE: US President Trump and Melania test positive for Covid-19

    UPDATE: US President Trump and Melania test positive for Covid-19

    The US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19. The President made the announcement on his Twitter account at 1am Friday, Washington time. The 74 year old President was diagnosed just hours after it became public that Hope Hicks, a Trump aide who had been travelling with him on Air Force One and Marine…

  • UPDATE: US President Trump and First Lady test positive for Covid-19

    UPDATE: US President Trump and First Lady test positive for Covid-19

    The US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have tested positive for Covid-19. The President made the announcement on his Twitter account in the early hours of Friday morning, US time. The 74 year old President was diagnosed just hours after it became public that Hope Hicks, a Trump aide who had been travelling with him on Air Force…

  • Opening borders could cause a second Covid-19 outbreak, epidemiologist says

    Opening borders could cause a second Covid-19 outbreak, epidemiologist says

    Opening Thailand’s borders to foreign tourists may open a “Pandora’s box” of Covid-19 infections, according to leading epidemiologist on the Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine Thira Woratanarat. After a 6 month ban on international tourists, the first group of travellers on the new Special Tourist Visa are set to fly from China to Phuket on October 8. Thira says the…

  • Bangkok’s Khao San Road re-opening for local trade

    Bangkok’s Khao San Road re-opening for local trade

    Bangkok’s Deputy Governor Sakoltee Phattiyakul says the capital’s iconic Khao San Road is set to re-open for trade, targeting the local market of Thais and expats. The street is normally a mecca for international tourists, in particular, younger backpackers making the rite-of-passage pilgrimage through Southeast Asia. There was a pre-Covid botched attempt to meddle with the area’s long-established, and rather…