Songkran to be celebrated indoors

 

 

The Department of Cultural Promotion has suggested that Thais avoid public gatherings for Songkran and instead bathe the Buddha's idol at home to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159171-songkran-to-be-celebrated-indoors/

PM warns ignoring safety measures will only delay return to normal life

 

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha visited state quarantine locations and checkpoints to evaluate the situation during Songkran festival.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159172-pm-warns-ignoring-safety-measures-will-only-delay-return-to-normal-life/ 

Unemployed man's plea for food on FB answered

By The Nation

 

 

A Krabi welder's anguished plea in a Facebook post for rice to feed his family as he had no work due to the Covid-19 crisis alerted netizens to his plight, enabling delivery of food items on Saturday (April 11).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159202-unemployed-mans-plea-for-food-on-fb-answered/

 

Many patients last week got infection from family member

By The Nation

 

 

In nearly 56 per cent of Covid-19 cases last week through close contact, the source was a family member, the Ministry of Public Health revealed.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159203-many-patients-last-week-got-infection-from-family-member/

 

Thailand cannot lower its guard despite declining Covid-19 trend

By The Nation

 

 

The number of new Covid-19 cases in Thailand is showing a declining trend but continues to be on the rise in Asean, making the pandemic an overhanging threat.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159204-thailand-cannot-lower-its-guard-despite-declining-covid-19-trend/

 

Government finalising cash handouts to farmers

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

Government plans cash handouts to farmers' families of between Bt15,000 and Bt30,000 a month per family. The figure is yet to be finalised by ministers and the cost is estimated at Bt130 billion to Bt400 billion.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159205-government-finalising-cash-handouts-to-farmers/

 

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Alcohol sales banned in entire country

By The Nation

 

 

All 77 provinces have banned sales of alcoholic beverages and ordered the closure of shops or venues selling those beverages, as part of efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159084-thai-provinces-ban-alcohol-sales-ahead-of-new-year-to-curb-coronavirus-spread/?do=findComment&comment=15288727

 

UPDATE:

 

COVID-19 boxing stadium cluster not result of carriers from Italy

 

 

Thai geneticists have refuted conjecture that asymptomatic coronavirus carriers from Italy may have been responsible for infecting boxing fans and visitors to a Thonglor area pub.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159167-clusters-at-boxing-stadium-entertainment-venue-same-virus-species/?do=findComment&comment=15288734

 

660,000 COVID-19 “high-risk” people under watch of health volunteers

 

 

Over the past two months, health volunteers have visited more than 11.8 million households around Thailand and have identified about 660,000 people who are thought to be at high-risk of contracting and/or spreading COVID-19 for monitoring.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159206-660000-covid-19-“high-risk”-people-under-watch-of-health-volunteers/

 

Phuket pulls together to provide free food for those in need

By The Phuket News

 

Orient Restaurant in Patong is among those stepping up. Photo: Nawar Pinky / Facebook

 

PHUKET: People, businesses and communities across Phuket have stepped up to provide food for people in need as many find themselves suffering

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159207-phuket-pulls-together-to-provide-free-food-for-those-in-need/

 

Four new Phuket COVID cases as ‘proactive’ campaign yields results

By The Phuket News

 

Image: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Communicable Disease Committee today (Apr 12) announced four more confirmed cases of people infected with the COVID-19

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159208-four-new-phuket-covid-cases-as-‘proactive’-campaign-yields-results/

 

PM: Being cooperative will help get things back to normal quickly

 

   

BANGKOK(NNT)-The Prime Minister has followed the latest COVID-19 report at Government House by asking the public to strictly follow the measures to protect themselves, and not to waste the time of the hard-working dedicated medical staff.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159209-pm-prayut-being-cooperative-will-help-get-things-back-to-normal-quickly/

 

49 cured Covid-19 patients wish to donate plasma

 

   

BANGKOK(NNT)-The Thai Red Cross Society has advised that 49 cured COVID-19 patients wish to donate their plasma. Cured COVID-19 patients are asked to register for plasma donation online.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159210-49-cured-covid-19-patients-wish-to-donate-plasma/

 

Hotel in Hatyai offers “Social Distancing” package

 

   

SONGKHLA (NNT)-A hotel in Hatyai, Songkhla province has come up with a strategy to prevent its business accumulating losses and facing likely closure like other hotels during the COVID-19 outbreak. It offers a “Social Distancing” package where customers can stay comfortably while ensuring their family’s safety.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159212-hotel-in-hatyai-offers-“social-distancing”-package/

 

PM Johnson says medics saved his life as UK deaths pass 10,000 mark

By Estelle Shirbon and Kate Holton

 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech to British citizens after being discharged from hospital, in London, Britain, April 12, 2020 in this screen grab taken from social media video. Twitter/@BorisJohnson via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson left hospital on Sunday and thanked staff for saving his life from COVID-19, but his government was forced to defend its response to the coronavirus outbreak as the national death toll passed 10,000.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159213-pm johnson says-medics-saved-his-life-as-uk-deaths-pass-10000-mark/

 

Assange fathered two children while holed up in embassy, lawyer says

 

FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with a lawyer who was representing him while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London fighting extradition, the lawyer told a British newspaper on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159214-assange-fathered-two-children-while-holed-up-in-embassy-lawyer-says/

 

U.S. spends Easter Sunday on lockdown as COVID-19 death toll tops 21,300

By Barbara Goldberg and Tom Polansek

 

A young couple pray at sunrise on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, where normally thousands of Christians would gather for worship at Easter sunrise, in Washington, U.S. April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Americans spent Easter Sunday on lockdown as the U.S. toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 21,300 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159216-us-spends-easter-sunday-on-lockdown-as-covid-19-death-toll-tops-21300/

 

Oil agreement could support stocks, providing a floor

By Sinéad Carew

 

FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, U.S., November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant

 

(Reuters) - An agreement by oil producing nations to cut output by a record amount may sustain a recent bounce in stocks, though stay-at-home restrictions and closures tied to the coronavirus pandemic continue to weigh on the global economy.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159217-oil-agreement-could-support-stocks-providing-a-floor/

 

Israel closes off Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox areas to stem coronavirus spread

 

Israeli police check a driver in a car on a roadblock in a main road in Jerusalem as they try to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from the densely populated neighborhoods where the infection rate is high, April 12, 2020 REUTERS/ Ammar Awad

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel locked down mainly ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas of Jerusalem on Sunday to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus from the densely populated neighbourhoods where the infection rate is high.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159218-israel closes-off-jerusalems-ultra-orthodox-areas-to-stem-coronavirus-spread/

 

UK cancels order for simple ventilators, needs more complex ones: source

 

FILE PHOTO: Medical staff are seen outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre in London as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has cancelled an order for thousands of units of a simple model of ventilator developed by industrial companies to treat COVID-19 because more sophisticated devices are now needed, a source involved in the project said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159219-uk-cancels-order-for-simple-ventilators-needs-more-complex-ones-source/

 

Canada coronavirus toll rises, officials probe seniors' home deaths

By David Ljunggren

 

The entrance to the Etobicoke General Hospital drive-thru COVID-19 assessment centre is pictured, as the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continue to grow, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

 

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of Canadian deaths from the new coronavirus rose by more than 12% to 674 in a day, official data showed on Sunday, and Quebec officials opened a probe into the deaths of 31 people in a seniors' residence.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159220-canada-coronavirus-toll-rises-officials-probe-seniors-home-deaths/

 

Motor racing - British great Stirling Moss dies at 90 after long illness

By Alan Baldwin

 

FILE PHOTO: Former English Formula One driver Stirling Moss waves to spectators as he sits in his 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza during the Ennstal Classic rally near the Austrian village of Groebming July 20, 2013. Some 206 oldtimer cars are taking part in the three day vintage and classic car rally around Ennstal, in the Austrian province of Styria. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Stirling Moss, the British racing driver who ranked as an all-time Formula One great despite never winning the world championship, died on Sunday aged 90 after a long illness.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159221-motor-racing-british-great-stirling-moss-dies-at-90-after-long-illness/

 

French sees effects of lockdown even as coronavirus death toll rises to 14,393

 

Police officers patrol the deserted Promenade des Anglais in Nice, as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

 

PARIS (Reuters) - The death toll in France from the coronavirus outbreak rose at a slightly slower pace on Sunday than a day earlier, the French public health authority said, adding that the lockdown was producing its first effects.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159222-french-sees-effects-of-lockdown-even-as-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-14393/

 

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Bonetti dies aged 78

 

FILE PHOTO: Reuters

 

(Reuters) - Former Chelsea and England goalkeeper Peter Bonetti has died at the age of 78 after a long battle with illness, the Premier League club announced on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159223-former-chelsea-goalkeeper bonetti dies-aged-78/

 

Malaysia's AirAsia founders not taking salary; staff accepts up to 75% pay cut

 

FILE PHOTO: AirAsia Airbus A320-200 planes are seen on the tarmac of Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang, Malaysia, February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The founders of Malaysia's AirAsia Group Bhd <AIRA.KL> will not take salaries and its staff has agreed to an as much as 75% cut in pay due to the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak on the airline, its chief executive said late on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159225-malaysias-airasia-founders-not-taking-salary-staff-accepts-up-to-75-pay-cut/

 

Goodies star Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus

 

Photo credit: BBC

 

Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 with coronavirus, his agent has confirmed to the BBC.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159226-uk-goodies-star-brooke-taylor-dies-with-coronavirus/

 

Great-grandmother, 97, becomes Brazil's oldest coronavirus survivor

 

97-year-old Brazilian Gina Dal Colleto, the oldest known survivor of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brazil, is pushed in a wheelchair out of Sao Paulo's Vila Nova Star hospital to applause from doctors and nurses on April 12, 2020, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Courtesy of Rede D'Or Sao Luiz/Social Media via REUTERS

 

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When 97-year-old Brazilian Gina Dal Colleto was hospitalized on April 1 with coronavirus symptoms, few could have thought she would survive the deadly virus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159227-great-grandmother-97-becomes-brazils-oldest-coronavirus-survivor/

 

North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament meets amid global pandemic

 

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance during his visit to a pursuit assault plane group under the Air and Anti-Aircraft Division in the western area in this undated image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 12, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament gathered on Sunday, a day after leader Kim Jong Un presided over a ruling party politburo meeting where he called for strict measures to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159228-north-koreas-rubber-stamp-parliament-meets-amid-global-pandemic/

 

Pattaya: Thais and foreigners in ladyboy "catwalk" party busted by police

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that a large contingent of Nong Prue police were joined by officers from immigration, the tourist police and international crime forces in busting a party held in a luxury house in Moo 5 in contravention of the emergency decree. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159232-pattaya-thais-and-foreigners-in-ladyboy-catwalk-party-busted-by-police/

 

China's new coronavirus cases rise to near six-week high

By Se Young Lee and Lusha Zhang

 

A resident wearing a face mask is seen at a blocked residential area after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases in nearly six weeks, driven by a rise in infected travellers arriving from overseas and underscoring challenges Beijing faces in preventing a second wave of COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1159235-chinas-new-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-near-six-week-high/