All temporary COVID-19 hospitals to be closed at the end of September
Thailand’s Health Service Support Department will not extend the licenses of temporary hospitals after October 1st, when COVID-19 is to be reclassified from a “dangerous infectious disease” to an “infectious disease under watch”, unless there are still patients being treated there, said Dr. Tares Krassanairawiwong, the department’s director-general, today (Friday) Many temporary hospitals, such as…
web DeskForeigners infected with COVID-19 can visit Thailand
Foreign visitors to Thailand who are infected with COVID-19 will no longer be barred from entering, following a decision by the cabinet today (Monday) to delete COVID-19 from a list of forbidden diseases in foreign visitors, said Deputy Government Spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek. The new measure will take effect once it is announced in the Royal…
Second Omicron BA.2.75.2 sub-variant case detected in Thailand
The Centre for Medical Genomics of the Faculty of Medicines at Ramathibodi Hospital has reported Thailand’s second confirmed case of the Omicron BA.2.75.2 sub-variant infection in a Thai woman. The centre said that the BA.2.75.2 sub-variant is five times more transmissible than the BA.5 sub-variant and four times faster than the BA.4.6 variant and is…
Thai police go after loan sharks preying on vulnerable people amid pandemic
Napawan Rimwaan used a phone app to borrow 2,000 baht (U.S. $55), believing it was an interest-free loan that she could pay back in 90 days. A week later, an agent from the lending agency started calling and threatening the Thai mother of two to repay the loan – along with a 31 percent interest…