Entertainment venues urge govt to ease shutdown measures

By THE NATION

 

 

A network of entertainment venues on Monday submitted a letter to the government calling on it to ease shutdown measures enforced to curb the spread of Covid-19, as well as provide assistance to businesses that have been affected.

 

Venues such as pubs and bars are on the top of the list of venues ordered shutdown by each province’s communicable diseases committee since the new wave of infections hit Thailand. The temporary shutdown was ordered to prevent new cluster cases.

 

 

The proposals presented by the Entertainment Professionals Federation of Thailand are:

 

• Suspension of debt repayment for professionals in entertainment businesses, including pub and bar owners, concert organisers, musicians, singers and related staff.

 

• Provision of soft loans to those in entertainment businesses at low or zero interest.

 

• Permission to open for entertainment venues that have not reported any infections for 28 consecutive days.

 

The letter, which was handed in by the federation’s president Kathawut Thongthai, was accepted by National Security Council secretary-general General Nattapon Nakpanich, who promised to forward it to relevant agencies.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30401454

 

 

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Bangkok province needs to go into a seven day lockdown, similar to what Australian cities have done, with no in or out except through airport, now chonburi and no doubt other provinces clear infections. Then there second day rise in infections wouldn't occur and numbers reduced, rather than hope. Clear this up rather than prolong it.

27 minutes ago, Haveasay said:

Bangkok province needs to go into a seven day lockdown, similar to what Australian cities have done, with no in or out except through airport,

I think the lack of fresh food produce reaching Bangkok for 7 days would cause far worse problems than Covid, with its current total death toll in Thailand of 67 over the last year.

Excuses don't jell, when they are the lag in the chain. A minister saying 2 months to get say under 50 infections there, while the other provinces are in various restrictions. A 7 day, even extend to 14 day, and you have 50 in 2 weeks or near, not 2 months is unfair to the reducing numbers elsewhere, given Bangkok was the initial source, reducing spreaders. The app should by now, be productive to make harsher outcomes. Shouldn't go on under 200, then over 300, the trend.