Thailand extends Emergency Decree for thirteenth time until 30 September 2021

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

The latest two-month extension is to continue nationwide efforts to contain the surge in local COVID-19 transmission.

 

Bangkok, 24 July, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to provide the latest update that the Thai Cabinet agreed to extend the Emergency Decree nationwide for two more months until 30 September, 2021.

 

Published in the Royal Thai Government Gazette on 23 July, 2021, Thai Prime Minister, General Prayut Chan-o-cha signed the announcement on the thirteenth consecutive extension of the state of emergency for two more months after it expires at the end of this month (31 July, 2021).

 

The two-month extension takes effect from 1 August – 30 September, 2021.

 

The announcement cited that despite unprecedented efforts on public health services, mass vaccination programme, and restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent spread of Delta COVID-19 variant infections in various clusters in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces, as well as other provinces justifies the need to extend the state of emergency.

 

This will allow the authorities to step up efforts on disease surveillance and investigation, as well as to curb local transmissions for the health and safety of everyone in the country.

 

Source: https://www.tatnews.org/2021/07/thailand-extends-emergency-decree-for-thirteenth-time-until-30-september-2021/

 

-- TAT Newsroom

[RotBenz8888]

4 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

thirteenth consecutive extension of the state of emergency

This time, there really is an emergency. 

[cyril sneer]

what does this actually mean? easier for tourists to stay longer?

[Kevin Taylor]

Is there any chance of getting that power back and letting the people decide.

[mtls2005]

13? Child's play.

 

They've extended the emergency decree/martial law in the four restive southern provinces something like thirty-three times, consecutively since 2004.

 

Slippery slopes.

[Andycoops]

No surprise as they are on the backfoot and need all the unconstitutional decrees they have to suppress comments on their appalling lack of competence, integrity, honour and decency.

[Kwaibill]

21 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

No surprise as they are on the backfoot and need all the unconstitutional decrees they have to suppress comments on their appalling lack of competence, integrity, honour and decency.

Unconstitutional? We have a constitution?

The last four items are largely Western concepts, if not practices, largely substituted here by the concept of "face", which means finding a way to make things sound good, and everybody can pretend things really are good.

[mtls2005]

43 minutes ago, Kwaibill said:

We have a constitution?

 

The current Thai charter guarantees many individual rights. 

 

Current Thai law severely restricts those individual rights, at the whim of the ruling class.

 

The Constitutional Court works for the ruling class, and they usually sort things out.

 

 

 

 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to provide the latest update that the Thai Cabinet agreed to extend the Emergency Decree nationwide for two more months until 30 September, 2021.

Just do it to the end of the year... stop playing around.

[Peterphuket]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Just do it to the end of the year... stop playing around.

They want to keep it exciting....

After 2 months they play the game again.

And we?.....we waiting again, and again, again, maybe until we d.....

Edited July 25, 2021 by Peterphuket

[spidermike007]

We are starting to see more and more protests, despite the draconian punishments and threats from the army overseers

 

I suspect the civil disobedience is just starting. So many broken souls out there. So many families utterly wrecked by carelessness, recklessness, malfeasance, incompetence, selective application of restrictions, and shutdown after shutdown, when the spread was allowed by poor policy, poor policing, and poor planning. 

 

This is only the beginning. The youth WILL prevail over the dinosaurs. It has to happen.