Bangkok extends closure of 34 risky locations until May 31

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok Governor Aswin Khwanmuang signed an order on Sunday (May 3) for temporary closure of 34 locations that pose a risk for Covid-19 infection until May 31.

 

 

The 34 locations are:

 

1. Theatre, cinema, playhouse

2. Pub, bar, entertainment venue

3. Water park, amusement park

4. Playground, children's play areas in the market including floating markets and flea markets

5. Zoo

6. Skating or rollerblade park

7. Billiards or snooker venue

8. Bowling alley or arcade

9. Game centre and internet cafe

10. Public pool or similar business

11. Rooster fight ring

12 Fitness centre

13. Exhibition location, exhibition centre and convention hall.

14. Museum

15. Library

16. Nursery

17. Elderly care

18. Boxing stadium

19. Martial arts school or gym

20. Tattoo parlour

21. Dance school

22. Race track

23. Sauna or steaming room

24. Massage parlour

25. Amulet shop

26. Weight loss shop or beauty clinics

27. Massage house

28. All types of arenas

29. All performances in public areas

30. Banquet hall

31. Department stores (except the supermarket area, pharmacies, miscellaneous goods that are essential, retail stores, telecommunication businesses, banks and government and state enterprises offices)

32. Beauty salon (only allowed to cut, wash, and set the hair without other customers waiting in the shop)

33. Sports stadium (only sports that do not need multiple players while clubhouse must be closed to prevent people from gathering)

34. Parks (open only for individuals to exercise, such as walking, running, or bicycling while keeping social distancing).

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387193

 

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Next Pattaya? I hope not.

The country of numerous U-turn.

O M G NOT the amulet shops ????

12 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Rooster fight ring

I thought they are anyhow illegal, or not?

#31.... is beer an essential item ?

This virus is not under control is it, they really do not know which way to turn?

 

And as for allowing all the "holiday" travel - sheer madness.

So the big malls and their shops pretty much remain closed another month???  With the limited exceptions of some types of shops listed above.

 

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

So the big malls and their shops pretty much remain closed another month???  With the limited exceptions of some types of shops listed above.

 

They promise review every 14 days - so perhaps less than a month.  Dresses and jewelry seem to be especially dangerous items for the men of COVID.

48 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

They promise review every 14 days - so perhaps less than a month.  Dresses and jewelry seem to be especially dangerous items for the men of COVID.

 

I don't recall the BMA ever using the EN term "malls" in any of their announcements. The closest they seem to come is "department stores", and then say, except for banks, pharmacies... etc. within department stores.

 

Well, "department stores" don't typically have bank branches and pharmacies and govt. offices within them... But malls do... So I'm presuming they are really talking about malls.

 

If restaurants and such can now re-open with required masks and social distancing, I fail to see why individual small retail shops within malls (which make up the majority of their space) cannot reopen as well. Just have the malls make it a requirement, masks and social distancing must be maintained, and limit numbers of customers allowed inside individual shops.

 

If they can do it on the Skytrain and MRT, I don't see why they can't do the same within malls.

Edited May 3, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

 

10 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

If they can do it on the Skytrain and MRT, I don't see why they can't do the same within malls.

Because public transportation is more critical than buying the latest jeans or gadget (which you could even order online). 

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

So the big malls and their shops pretty much remain closed another month???  With the limited exceptions of some types of shops listed above.

 

Yes. They say department stores but they clearly mean malls.

Where it says "department stores", it clearly means malls. And then it should add department stores to the list, because it's only logical they'll be shut too.

 

Vocabulary:

department store = one big store with many sections, e.g. Robinson, Central, etc.

mall = one building containing many small stores, e.g. MBK, Emquartier, Paragon

 

Edited May 3, 20206 yr by sprq
clarity

Close "Elderly Care"????

14 minutes ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

 

Because public transportation is more critical than buying the latest jeans or gadget (which you could even order online). 

 

Ya well sit-down restaurants are in the same boat, but the BMA has decided to allow them to reopen.

 

There's nothing "critical" about having sit-down restaurants reopen, when supermarkets have been open all along for food, and many restaurants have continued operating with food delivery services and pickup/takeout services.

 

There are things people really need to buy that can't necessarily be served thru the online channels. Someone where the other day was bemoaning the ability to get fitted for a new pair of prescription glasses, just as one example.

 

To be clear, I'm in favor of the anti-CV measures and have been all along. But once they start reopening things, it's sometimes hard to understand any sensible rationale between some of the things that are allowed and others that remain banned.

 

8 minutes ago, theoldgit said:

Close "Elderly Care"????

 

I thought the same thing when I saw that on the list. I understand the risk rationale, but in practical terms, they must be idiots to put that on the closures list.

 

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I thought the same thing when I saw that on the list. I understand the risk rationale, but in practical terms, they must be idiots to put that on the closures list.

 

I suspect it is as case for hotels - no new customers.

To be honest most of these make sense to remain closed for a while more

1 hour ago, Grumpy one said:

O M G NOT the amulet shops ????

Good god, nooooooo...how can I be safe now, my sak yants need to have a new amulet for the holiday...

35. All U turns...

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Rooster fight ring

 

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I thought they are anyhow illegal, or not?

Fights to the death are illegal (banned in 2014) otherwise no problem. I've watched a few in our village. They stick to the rules.

 

https://www.thailanddiscovery.info/cockfighting-thailand-from-bangkok-rural-villages/

The checkouts at my local Makro at 11.00 was reminisent of Mafeking finally being relieved.

 

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

24. Massage parlour

27. Massage house

Is there any difference?

14 minutes ago, rasmus5150 said:

Is there any difference?

House I would read as outcall service.

3 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

O M G NOT the amulet shops ????

I thought the same thing.

The cynic might wander, since the owners of the really influential businesses seem to have reached, umh, an accommodation with the government after last weeks little misunderstanding, are the provincial administrations holding out for their share?

 

A jolly dangerous game...

What is the point of this 'news article'.  All those restrictions are already stated in the Emergency Decree.  The government has just stated what restrictions 'can' be lifted and that doesn't include any of those on the list.  Governors should be informing of their take on the government announcement.  What restrictions, based on the government statement are they lifting.  Not what the government are not allowing!  That's already been done! Some provinces still have a ban on alcohol and restaurants only because they're waiting for the lazy governors to get off their seats and do their job.

 

This article is a complete waste of space and does more to fire confusion than anything else.

5 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I thought they are anyhow illegal, or not?

I thought only illegal if gambling is involved.

maintain social distancing at parks while the local markets are as crowded as ever.

5 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I thought they are anyhow illegal, or not?

Quote:-

 

CONSIDERED PART OF THAI CULTURE

For the few dozen men surrounding a technically illegal but tolerated underpass cockfighting ring, cockfighting is as much a generations-old Thai tradition as it is commerce...

 

"It's a way to preserve ancient Thai culture and pass it on to our children," says one 50-year-old.

The official government view supports cockfighting as part of Thai culture.

"We've had cockfighting since ancient times, for more than 700 years," said ........... from the Interior Ministry, which encourages raising the birds in local communities as a form of "extra income".

 

What is illegal is the gambling but a blind eye is turned (quote:-)

 

ILLEGAL GAMBLING

Cockfighting is almost always accompanied by lucrative gambling.

"We don't think it's violence as it's a kind of sport," said a regular punter after winning 500 baht on a round which ended in a tie...

...A few weeks later the same stadium raked in 22.2 million baht for a record breaking bet...

While they risk up to two years in jail for gambling at an unregistered ring, authorities routinely turn a blind eye to such activities.

Thailand is dotted with much larger, official cockfighting stadiums that draw vast, big-spending crowds.

 

Money. money, money!!!!

5 hours ago, Thailand said:

This virus is not under control is it,

 

 

Not whilst only a pathetically small number of people are being tested.