Restaurants, markets among 8 Bangkok venues tipped to reopen from Friday

By The Nation

 

Aswin Kwanmuang

 

Restaurants, markets, sports centres, public parks, salons, pet clinics, medical services and golf courses in Bangkok might have a chance to reopen after the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration decided to ease its lockdown measures from May 1.

 

Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (April 28) after a meeting that these eight types of venues will be able to reopen but they need to strictly follow several Public Health Ministry measures, one of which is the all-important social distancing.

 

Restaurants have been ordered to separate seats by least 1.5 metres, sports centres are prohibited from holding team events, salons must be sanitised every two hours and pet clinics can accept only one client at a time.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386917

 

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Great news, restaurants and barber shops reopen. Stay safe, everyone.

  

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

..might have a chance to reopen..

 

Can't believe this flip-flop masters till the day arrives ????

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by kotsak

22 minutes ago, webfact said:

Restaurants have been ordered to separate seats by least 1.5 metres,

The recommended safe social distancing measure is a minimum of 2 metres!  This is the distance droplets are spread by coughs and sneezes!  Why is it that Thailand has to have their own "safe" measurements, which aren't safe at all! It's the same with measurement of air pollution PM2.5 particles! Thailand's "safe" level is unsafe everywhere else in the world!

One of the worst affected places opening up first?

What about DIY and beer sales?

 

19 minutes ago, kotsak said:

  

 

Can't believe this flip-flop masters till the day arrives ????

Yes the text doesn't seem to make sense. 

"might have a chance to reopen"  perhaps a bad translation?

The other parts of the article are more definitive:

decided to ease its lockdown measures from May 1

venues will be able to reopen

Restaurants have been ordered.

 

lets hope so.

Seriously ????

 

I am afraid that our dear PM is going to transfer him to an inactive post !

4 minutes ago, jojothai said:

Yes the text doesn't seem to make sense. 

"might have a chance to reopen"  perhaps a bad translation?

The other parts of the article are more definitive:

decided to ease its lockdown measures from May 1

venues will be able to reopen

Restaurants have been ordered.

 

lets hope so.

Can  open if they adhere to the guidelines, is what I read it to say.

5 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Can  open if they adhere to the guidelines, is what I read it to say.

Yes that's how i read it.

"might have a chance to reopen" is the problem. I trust that it is purely a bad translation.

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by jojothai
words changed

Looks suspiciously like a "syrup of figs"

1 minute ago, poohy said:

Looks suspiciously like a "syrup of figs"

I think it is on back to front.

30 minutes ago, Thailand said:

One of the worst affected places opening up first?

Good sign for the rest of us.

No restaurant has tables large enough to separate members of a family or group by 1.5 meter each... so one table per customer? 

 

And what about swimming pools? 

 

And domestic travel? 

 

It is very nice to reopen airports and air traffic, but not very useful if inter province travel is forbidden... 

Define "salons".

What about Dep't stores & phone shops? Mr Central Dep't Store was planning for May 1st. 

3 minutes ago, Enzian said:

Define "salons".

Hair salons for washing & cutting only with an appointment. No waiting inside. Not beauty salons. 

What a joke like where it says a pet clinic can accept only one client at a time.  I live in Bangkok and two times this week I took one of my pets to our vet here in Bangkok.  The vet's clinic was open as normal, around 4 clients with their pets in the waiting area.  Only difference in operation I saw was all the vet employees were wearing masks.  

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by Pib

Restaurants can open but NO alcohol.

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by pontious

stop knocking it - this is the best they can do given the "tools" available 

3 minutes ago, Pib said:

What a joke like where it says a pet clinic can accept only one client at a time.  I live in Bangkok and two times this week I took one of my pets to our vet here in Bangkok.  The vet's clinic was open as normal, around 4 clients with there pets in the waiting area.  Only difference in operation I saw was all the vet employees were wearing masks.  

all pets should also be wearing masks and I'm not kidding 

4 minutes ago, smedly said:

stop knocking it - this is the best they can do given the "tools" available 

Tools? 

 

Are you talking about the brains? 

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by Brunolem

6 minutes ago, pontious said:

Restaurants can open but NOT sell alcohol.

I heard that rumoured as a possibility.  Do you have anything confirming it?

1 minute ago, treetops said:

I heard that rumoured as a possibility.  Do you have anything confirming it?

Look at the same story in the newspaper we cannot quote. More detail.

4 minutes ago, treetops said:

I heard that rumoured as a possibility.  Do you have anything confirming it?

But maybe I can take my own wine and pay corkage?

Scientists today confirmed that there is only one thing more virulent than Covid :

the pop up ads here absolutely refuse to be killed ,   with mutations that leave

us sad and confused

Edited April 28, 20206 yr by rumak

1 hour ago, graemeaylward said:

The recommended safe social distancing measure is a minimum of 2 metres!  This is the distance droplets are spread by coughs and sneezes!  Why is it that Thailand has to have their own "safe" measurements, which aren't safe at all! It's the same with measurement of air pollution PM2.5 particles! Thailand's "safe" level is unsafe everywhere else in the world!

well go tell Auntin or WHO or someone if it'll make you feel better

I hope 'sport centers' covers swimming pools

I dont understand the logic about allowing restaurants to open and continuing to ban booze. The booze ban was only put in place to stop people from getting together - so now if you're allowing people to get together in restaurants etc allow them to have a beer.

Anyway - I think we're flirting with disaster. It won't be long till Wave 2 comes around. Pretty sure of it. Hope I'm wrong.

35 minutes ago, eeworldwide said:

Anyway - I think we're flirting with disaster. It won't be long till Wave 2 comes around. Pretty sure of it. Hope I'm wrong.

Even stranger is that Bangkok, which is by far the most infected province (about half of the total cases, not counting the undiscovered ones) is the first to reopen.

 

This decision almost guarantee a second wave.

 

All the red provinces should have remained under lockdown until their situation improved...otherwise what is the point of color coding the provinces?