THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Sunday 1 August 2021

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bangkok’s popular ‘train night market’ at Ratchada to close permanently: reports

 

 

The hugely popular Ratchada night market in Bangkok is to close permanently, according to reports.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226026-bangkok’s-popular-‘train-night-market’-at-ratchada-to-close-permanently-reports/

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Prayuth: No VIPs will get US Pfizer donation but foreigners living in Thailand will get part of allocation

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Foreigners living in Thailand are set to get some of the US donation of Pfizer vaccine that arrived in Thailand yesterday according to comments made by PM Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday passed on by government spokeswoman Traisuree.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226009-prayuth-no-vips-will-get-us-pfizer-donation-but-foreigners-living-in-thailand-will-get-part-of-allocation/

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Police will set up a committee to investigate sergeant after road rage incident - no favors says chief

 

Picture: INN

 

The chief of police in Samut Prakan province Pol Maj-Gen Chumphon Phumphuang spoke to INN concerning the case of a policeman with a gun and a man on an arrest warrant clambering on the roof of a Civic and slashing with a sword in an apparent road rage incident in Prawet district of Bangkok. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226016-police-will-set-up-a-committee-to-investigate-sergeant-after-road-rage-incident-no-favors-says-chief/

[Jonathan Fairfield]

New vaccine registration website for foreigners in Thailand opens Aug 1

 

 

A new vaccine registration website for foreigners in Thailand will open on August 1, it has been announced.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226065-new-vaccine-registration-website-for-foreigners-in-thailand-opens-aug-1/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

PM holds meeting with private hospitals

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Prime Minister has chaired a meeting with private hospitals on the establishment of more wards and hospitels, with representatives of all 21 hospitals in attendance agreeing that more beds for yellow and red patients are needed, along with more negative pressure rooms.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226066-pm-holds-meeting-with-private-hospitals/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Pfizer administration timeline to be completed in August

 

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health has indicated that the 1.5 million vaccine doses donated by the United States government, will be provided to four different groups with distribution to be completed in August.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226067-pfizer-administration-timeline-to-be-completed-in-august/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Health Min confident an extension of elevated measures will cut infection rates

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Disease Control (DDC) says that further use of elevated prevention measures against COVID-19 is expected to bring down daily infection numbers, but reiterated that the most important factor remains public cooperation.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226068-health-min-confident-an-extension-of-elevated-measures-will-cut-infection-rates/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Workers, companies to receive lockdown aid from 4th August

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has expedited the depositing of the govenment’s lockdown compensation for eligible workers and businesses. The first payments will now start from 4th August.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226069-workers-companies-to-receive-lockdown-aid-from-4th-august/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Home Isolation COVID-19 patients can file insurance claims

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Office of the Insurance Commission has issued an urgent directive to insurance companies, advising them to accept insurance claims from COVID-19 patients getting treatment at home or at community care centers, without making hospitalization a requirement.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226070-home-isolation-covid-19-patients-can-file-insurance-claims/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bangkok to have 61 Community Care Centers operational

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) aims to have all 61 Community Care Centers for COVID-19 cases operational in coming days across all 50 districts, serving as isolation centers for COVID-19 patients awaiting admission to a treatment facility.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226071-bangkok-to-have-61-community-care-centers-operational/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bang Sue CVC to stop accepting walk-ins from Sunday Aug 1

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Central Vaccination Center at Bang Sue Grand Station will suspend the walk-in vaccination service from Sunday (Aug 1) as the massive turnout makes social distancing difficult to manage. Services will continue however, for people with appointments.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226072-bang-sue-cvc-to-stop-accepting-walk-ins-from-sunday-aug-1/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Phuket Sandbox to continue although province bans domestic arrivals

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Phuket province will continue to accept international tourists as part of the Phuket Sandbox campaign despite the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country. The island province has activated stricter disease control measures including a ban on domestic arrivals to keep local COVID-19 cases low.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226073-phuket-sandbox-to-continue-although-province-bans-domestic-arrivals/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thai-Myanmar border in Kanchanaburi province closed to reduce risk of infected people crossing

 

 

The governor of Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi has ordered the closure of the border with Myanmar, effective Monday until further notice, as a precaution against a possible influx of people escaping the worsening COVID-19 situation in Myanmar.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226074-thai-myanmar-border-in-kanchanaburi-province-closed-to-reduce-risk-of-infected-people-crossing/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Two executives of Hua Hin pub blamed for COVID-19 cluster get 3 months in prison

 

 

Two executives of the Maya pub, in Thailand’s Hua Hin resort town, which was the epicenter of cluster of over 1,000 COVID-19 infections following an illegal concert held there in March, have been sentenced to three months in prison without suspension by the Prachuap Khiri Khan provincial court, said the provincial governor, Mr. Pallop Sinhaseni today (Saturday).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226075-two-executives-of-hua-hin-pub-blamed-for-covid-19-cluster-get-3-months-in-prison/

 

 

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

As cases surge, Thai hospital uses containers to store bodies

 

Health care workers move a dead body to a container after a hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths begun to store bodies in refrigerated containers, as the country struggles to deal with its biggest outbreak to date, in Pathum Thani, Thailand July 31, 2021. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

By Juarawee Kittisilpa

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers, resorting to a measure it last took in a devastating 2004 tsunami, as the country grapples with its biggest coronavirus outbreak.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226076-as-cases-surge-thai-hospital-uses-containers-to-store-bodies/

 

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Elderly bedridden woman dies in Mueang Chonburi house fire, brother survives, hoarding suspected as possible cause

 

 

Chonburi – A sixty-five-year-old elderly woman who was bedridden tragically died in a house that caught fire in Mueang Chonburi on Thursday morning.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226077-elderly-bedridden-woman-dies-in-mueang-chonburi-house-fire-brother-survives-hoarding-suspected-as-possible-cause/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Chonburi Governor says province will remain under maximum control measures, focusing on control of factories

 

 

Chonburi- The Chonburi Governor, Phakthorn Thienchai, along with the Chonburi Provincial Communicable Disease Committee, held a meeting this weekend to review current Covid-19 related measures in the province.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226079-chonburi-governor-says-province-will-remain-under-maximum-control-measures-focusing-on-control-of-factories/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thailand reports 18,027 new COVID-19 cases, 133 deaths

 

FILE PHOTO: A man undergoes a free coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a rapid antigen mass testing station as the spread of COVID-19 continues, in Bangkok, Thailand, July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

 

Thailand on Sunday (Aug 1) reported 18,027 new COVID-19 cases with 133 new fatalities.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226080-thailand-reports-18027-new-covid-19-cases-133-deaths/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Poor communication blamed as hundreds wait in vain for vaccines at Prachuap Hospital

 

 

Hundreds of people were left disappointed after waiting in vain to receive vaccinations at Prachuap Hospital.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226081-poor-communication-blamed-as-hundreds-wait-in-vain-for-vaccines-at-prachuap-hospital/

 

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

As Prachuap battles five COVID-19 clusters, locals urged to register for vaccines

 

 

Provincial health chief Dr. Suriya Kuharat has urged people living in Prachuap Khiri Khan province to register to receive a COVID-19 as soon as possible.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226082-as-prachuap-battles-five-covid-19-clusters-locals-urged-to-register-for-vaccines/

 

[rooster59]

Just who is responsible for the most Fake News? Us or them?

 

 

Firstly, thanks to all the readers who sent their best wishes to Rooster on the occasion of his 60th birthday last Sunday. They brought a tear to my beady eye after Mrs R wheeled me out to the balcony in my bath chair for my afternoon lemon tea PG Tips.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226083-just-who-is-responsible-for-the-most-fake-news-us-or-them/

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thailand extends pandemic measures, expands lockdown areas

 

Beds are seen as the Thai government prepares to convert an air cargo warehouse into a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) field hospital at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/Files

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand on Sunday extended tighter containment measures in the capital and high-risk provinces probably until the end of August in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19 as the country deals with its biggest outbreak to date.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1226120-thailand-extends-pandemic-measures-expands-lockdown-areas/

 

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