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

 

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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/

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

 

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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/

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PM holds meeting with private hospitals

 

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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/

 

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Pfizer administration timeline to be completed in August

 

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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Workers, companies to receive lockdown aid from 4th August

 

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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/

 

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Home Isolation COVID-19 patients can file insurance claims

 

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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/

 

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Bangkok to have 61 Community Care Centers operational

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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Phuket Sandbox to continue although province bans domestic arrivals

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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As cases surge, Thai hospital uses containers to store bodies

 

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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

 

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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/

 

 

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

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

 

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

 

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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/

 

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

 

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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/

 

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Thailand extends pandemic measures, expands lockdown areas

 

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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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