Official list of businesses permitted to reopen tomorrow (Sunday)

Further to a story in The Thaiger yesterday, PM Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his capacity as head of the CCSA, has listed the business and leisure activities which can resume from tomorrow, in the second phase of Covid-19 lockdown relaxations. The list, published in the Royal Gazette yesterday so becoming law, includes…

• Food and drink shops or stalls in restaurants, canteens, food parks, but without alcohol based drinks. Pubs and bars are excluded
• Department stores, shopping and community malls selling consumer products and offering services such as beauty and nail salons, and barbers. BUT cinemas, bowling alleys, computer gaming shops, skating rinks, Karaoke, amusement parks, snooker parlours, zoos, fitness clubs, health clinics, massage parlours and schools in the premises must remain closed
• Major retail and wholesale stores
• Homes for the elderly or children with overnight facilities
• TV and film production houses, with a limit of 50 per studio and no audiences
• Conference rooms in hotels and conference centres for board meetings, shareholder meetings, seminars or training with attendees from a single organisation to facilitate screening
• Health clinics, beauty clinics and nail salons outside malls, with the exception of facial treatments
• Fitness clubs outside malls for yoga and free weight exercises only. Exercise machines and group exercises are not yet permitted
• Indoor stadiums for non-contact, competitive sports with up to 3 players on each side, such as badminton, table tennis, Sepak takraw, squash, fencing, rock climbing and gymnastics
• Indoor and outdoor public swimming pools
• Botanical parks, museums, galleries, libraries and learning centres.

SOURCE: Thai PBS World