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  • 2.7 billion in “cash gifts” for officials working to fight Covid-19

    Government Spokesperson Traisulee Traisaranakul announced the Thai Cabinet has approved “cash gifts” for government officials working to fighting the Covid 19 outbreak. “The move to disburse cash gifts from the 2.7 billion baht budget was proposed by the Office of the Civil Service Commission.” Those who work in fields directly affected by the outbreak – doctors, nurses and other essential…

  • Can air-con spread Covid-19?

    A research letter published by Guangzhou Centres for Disease Control in China looked at 10 coronavirus cases of 3 families who ate in adjacent tables at the same time. The study proposes that droplet transmission by the restaurant’s air conditioning system was increased. The initial patient arrived from Wuhan and dined at the restaurant with 3 family members. Two other…

  • Thailand’s Muslim leader issues special instructions for Ramadan 2020

    The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will last from From April 24 or 25 to May 23 or 24 (depending on the lunar cycle) this year, during which time the faithful will practice fasting and take part in religious activities at mosques, residences and other designated areas. The spiritual leader of Thailand’s Muslims, the Sheikhul lslam, has issued an announcement…

  • New national Covid-19 cases drop to 29 (Thursday), 3 more dead

    Thai health officials today confirmed 29 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hour period, and 3 more deaths, bringing Thailand’s total number of patients to 2,672 since the beginning of the outbreak. This continues an encouraging downward trend, with 54 new cases a week ago, 50 on Friday, 45 on Saturday, 33 on Sunday, 28 on Monday and 34…

  • Tình hình Covid-19 Thế giới (Sáng T5 16/4): Hơn 2 triệu ca nhiễm nCoV toàn cầu

    Số ca nhiễm Covid-19 toàn cầu tiếp tục tăng mạnh, vượt mức 2 triệu ca nhiễm và vượt ngưỡng 130.000 người tử vong vì nCoV tính tới sáng ngày 16/4. Dịch bệnh vẫn diễn biến phức tạp tại Mỹ và châu Âu. Theo thống kê của Đại học Johns Hopkins, thế giới hiện ghi nhận: 2.056.055 ca nhiễm. 134.354 ca…

  • Thailand Post delivers 28 million hygienic masks nationwide

    Thailand Post has successfully delivered nearly 28 million hygienic masks to the Interior and Public Health ministries over the past month. Nearly 16.8 million were sent to the Ministry of Public Health to be redistributed to provincial public health departments and 99 hospitals nationwide, while another 11 million masks were delivered to the Ministry of Interior to be distributed to 77 cities…

  • Phuket reports no new Covid-19 cases (Thursday)

    Health officials in Phuket today reported no new Covid-19 cases, a first since the first cases were reported on March 20 after weeks of denials. This continues an encouraging downward trend: 3 cases were reported yesterday, down from Tuesday’s 10 which was the first time new cases reached double digits since 10 were reported on April 5. 13 cases were reported…

  • Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Sáng T5 16/4): Một ca mới ở miền núi phía Bắc

    6h ngày hôm nay 16/4, Bộ Y tế ghi nhận thêm một ca nhiễm COVID-19 mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 268 người, trong số đó, 171 người đã khỏi bệnh, 97 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến sáng ngày 16/4, Việt Nam ghi nhận: Số ca nhiễm: 268. Số ca khỏi bệnh:…

  • Travel and tourism in the Land of Smiles – 12 predictions

    OPINION by Andrew Wood Casting our eyes into the crystal ball has never been so difficult with so many varied issues clouding the post-coronavirus future. For Thailand, the future of world and domestic travel has never been so critical as tourism drives much of the Thai economy. Will the tourists come back? Will they be allowed back? When? And under what…

  • Thai Department of Corrections suspends 7,890 prison sentences in past six months

    The Director-general of the Thai Department of Corrections Police Colonel Naras Savestanan, has announced that he will speed up the process to grant suspended sentences, or lessen the prison terms, for qualified inmates right across Thailand. Inmates who are facing minor offences and shown good behaviour during their incarceration are also to be included in the process. “The number of…

  • NBTC seeks to reduce mobile bills by 30%

    Hopefully for both prepaid and postpaid subscribers. The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has been meeting with Thailand’s telecom operators in an effort to lower mobile phone service fees for users. The NBTC say the fee reduction proposal is for both prepaid and postpaid subscribers and seeks to reduce fees up to 30%. The initiative is aimed at helping people manage…

  • PM says restrictions could be eased by April 30

    The current national state of emergency is due to expire on April 30. While PM Prayut Chan-o-cha has hinted he might extend it, which he has the constitutional right to do (up to 90 days), he says that he’ll evaluate the Covid-19 situation in the last week of April to see if some restrictions can be lifted. The PM has…

  • Government only has enough to pay 5,000 baht aid package for 1 month – PM

    Shortly after the national state of emergency was declared in Thailand, the government of PM Prayut Chan-o-cha announced an aid package of 5,000 baht per month to “informal workers” left behind by the Covid-19 crisis. The original announcement, part of a 117 billion baht stimulus package, was for 3 months, but this was later extended to 6 months, despite the…

  • Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Tối T4 15/4): Không ghi nhận thêm ca nhiễm nCoV mới

    18h ngày hôm nay 15/4, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca nhiễm COVID-19 mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 267 người, trong số đó, 171 người đã khỏi bệnh, 96 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 15/4, Việt Nam ghi nhận (so sánh với 24h trước): Số ca nhiễm:…

  • Tình hình Covid-19 Thế giới (Chiều T4 15/4): 2 triệu ca nhiễm, gần 130.000 người chết vì nCoV

    Số ca nhiễm Covid-19 toàn cầu tiếp tục tăng mạnh, với khoảng 2 triệu ca nhiễm và vượt ngưỡng 120.000 người tử vong vì nCoV tính tới chiều ngày 15/4. Mỹ tiếp tục ghi nhận số ca tử vong kỷ lục trong một ngày Theo thống kê của Đại học Johns Hopkins, thế giới hiện ghi nhận: 1.996.862 ca nhiễm…

  • Canadian students create hotline to cheer up quarantined elderly

    Quarantine might not be so terrible for Gen X, Y, or Millennials with subscription services such as Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon Prime and other streaming services, plus fads like TikToc, et al to keep them busy. But for the elderly, isolation can be quite lonely. Canadian High school students wanted to change that by creating a hotline that plays pre…

  • Tin Covid-19: Hà Nội đề xuất kéo dài cách ly xã hội đến hết tháng 4

    Lãnh đạo Hà Nội đề nghị Chính phủ cho phép kéo dài cách ly xã hội trên địa bàn đến 30/4 do đại dịch Covid-19 bước sang giai đoạn mới, có diễn biến phức tạp. Tại cuộc họp Thường vụ Thành ủy sáng nay, Bí thư Thành uỷ Hà Nội Vương Đình Huệ đề nghị Ban chỉ đạo phòng, chống…

  • 30 new Covid-19 cases (Wednesday), 2 more deaths

    Thai health officials today confirmed 30 new Covid-19 cases, taking the national total to 2,643. 2 new deaths raise the national tally to 43. The trend continues downward, with 54 new cases reported last Thursday, 50 on Friday, 45 on Saturday, 33 on Sunday, 28 on Monday and 34 yesterday. But a spokesman for the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation…

  • Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Sáng T4 15/4): Thêm 1 ca nhiễm nCoV mới, nâng tổng số ca lên 267 người

    6h ngày hôm nay 15/4, Bộ Y tế ghi nhận thêm duy nhất một ca nhiễm COVID-19 mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 267 người, trong số đó, 169 người đã khỏi bệnh, 98 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến sáng ngày 15/4, Việt Nam ghi nhận: Số ca nhiễm: 267. Số ca…

  • Grocery trucks make a comeback during Covid-19 crisis

    Once a familiar site in neighbourhoods throughout the country, Thai grocery trucks are making a comeback. The trucks, essentially makeshift mobile shops, are once again bringing everything from mangoes and dried chillies to fresh meat to people forced indoors by the national state of emergency declared to fight the spread of Covid-19. Such trucks were a staple of Thai life…

  • Stranded Thai fisherman decides to swim back from Malaysia

    By March 23, Satun province had closed it’s border checkpoints with Malaysia to try to lessen the Covid-19 infections. But police have reported yesterday that a Thai fisherman was stranded in Malaysia after trying to swim across the border trying to return to his home. Police have reported finding a fisherman ,45 year old Ratanapol Pan-un, a Satun province native…

  • Thailand’s flight arrival ban extended to April 30

    Thailand’s nationwide ban on inbound flights was yesterday extended to at leastApril 30 by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand, to help control the spread of Covid-19. CAAT’s director-general announced the extension on the agency’s webpage this morning. It is the third extension of the ban, which was first imposed back on April 3. He cited the need to maintain…

  • Thai Covid 19 “Super Spreader” song goes… VIRAL

    “Don’t just think of fun, or you’ll suffer from Covid If you can’t recover, you could die!” After witnessing the successful Vietnamese public service song and #EndCov campaigns educating the Vietnamese population to wash their hands and take action in the battle against the Coronavirus, the Thai government has doubled down and weaponised the power of Issan music to create…

  • Computer says no. Finance ministry refuses two-thirds of stimulus applicants.

    Only 9 million Thais have been considered eligible in the latest package rolled out by the Finance Ministry. About 27 million registered for the emergency aid program to provide 5,000 baht per month for at least three month. Now the two-thirds who were initially refused the package after initial computer screening are asking why and fronting up to the Finance Ministry…

  • The road back to ‘normal’ – when can we get back to work?

    OPINION At one stage we didn’t know a new coronavirus was about to emerge. Then we started hearing stories out of China about a mysterious pneumonia-like disease in the first week of 2020. Then we started seeing a surge of cases, outside China, and wondered if it would affect us and the way we live. Then it did. Now we’re…

  • COVID-19: Ứng dụng NCOVI đạt gần 6,5 triệu lượt tải về chỉ sau 1 tháng

    Sau khoảng 1 tháng ra mắt, tính đến ngày hôm nay, ứng dụng khai báo y tế NCOVI đã đạt gần 6,5 triệu người dùng. Thông tin được Cục Tin học hóa, Bộ Thông tin và Truyền thông đăng tải. Theo đó, con số cụ thể mà ứng dụng này ghi được sau 1 tháng phát hành, tính đến ngày…

  • AoT, already struggling, deny investing in faltering Thai Airways

    “We’ve got enough problems of our own.” Airports of Thailand is denying claims that it is interested in acquiring a stake in the financially floundering flag carrier Thai Airways, saying that they too are struggling with the sharp drop in revenue after airlines and airport shutdowns related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thai Airways, once considered one of Asia’s most luxurious…

  • Tin Covid-19: Nhập thuốc hiếm từ nước ngoài để cứu bệnh nhân phi công Anh

    Bộ Y tế đặt mua thuốc hiếm từ nước ngoài về để cứu chữa cho “bệnh nhân 91” – phi công Anh tình hình đang trở nặng. Theo thông tin từ Thứ trưởng Bộ Y tế Nguyễn Trường Sơn, “bệnh nhân 91” vẫn trong tình trạng nguy kịch, chạy ECMO, hình ảnh phim X-quang phổi cho thấy biểu hiện tổn…

  • Thailand Covid-19 cases rise to 34 (Tuesday), 1 more death

    Thai health officials today confirmed 34 new Covid-19 cases from around the country, bringing the total to 2,613 since the beginning of the outbreak. There was one additional death, a Bangkok bus driver, raising the country’s death toll to 41. Today’s number is higher than the 28 recorded yesterday, and comes after five straight days of declines since the 111 recorded…

  • Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Sáng T3 14/4): Không có thêm ca nhiễm nCoV mới

    6h ngày hôm nay 14/4, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca nhiễm COVID-19 mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 265 người, trong số đó, 146 người đã khỏi bệnh, 119 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến sáng ngày 14/4, Việt Nam ghi nhận: Số ca nhiễm: 265 (=). Số ca khỏi…