More financial support approved in Thailand’s “Dark Red” provinces

 

 

The Thai cabinet, on Tuesday, approved a 33.47 billion baht budget to help about 6.69 million unemployed and freelance workers affected by the government’s partial lockdown restrictions, imposed in the 29 COVID-19 “Dark Red” provinces, said Government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri.

 

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Thailand to start human trials on COVID-19 shots via nasal spray

 

FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks queue outside the Central Vaccination Center as Thailand opens walk-in first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination scheme for elders, people with a minimum weight of 100 kilograms and pregnant women amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, July 22, 2021. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two coronavirus vaccines administered using a nasal spray being developed in Thailand are due to start human trials by the end of this year, after promising results in trials involving mice, a government official said on Wednesday.

 

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Thai Technology Center Launches New Platform to Support Public Sector

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) has launched a new platform, which will support the public sector’s move to share necessary data for further use by businesses and citizens.

 

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Thai Health Ministry sends 645,000 Doses of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine to “Dark-red” Provinces

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has begun distributing 645,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, donated by the US government, to those deemed vulnerable in 13 “dark-red” provinces.

 

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Thai Authorities Provide Measures to Help Cabbies and Taxi Cooperatives amid COVID-19 Crisis

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Department of Cooperative Promotion (DCP) is working with several agencies to offer free parking spots, as well as low-interest loans, to help cabbies and taxi cooperatives survive the COVID-19 crisis.

 

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Thai Rural Doctors Conclude COVID-19 Mass Testing Mission in Greater Bangkok

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Rural Doctors Society (RDS) has completed its mission to help conduct COVID-19 mass testing on at least 50,000 people in 26 locations across Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Nakhon Pathom, with 10,357 people testing positive over the five-day period.

 

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Over 90% of COVID-19 Patients in Thailand Are Infected by Delta Variant

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Department of Medical Science (DMS) has revealed that more than 90% of COVID-19 patients have been infected by the Delta variant of the virus.

 

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Top doctors want legal protection for Thai medics involved in handling COVID-19

 

 

Top medical professionals, representing Thailand’s main medical organizations, urged the government today (Wednesday) to develop ways to protect medical personnel involved in the care of COVID-19 patients from legal exposure in case of errors in the honest performance of their duties.

 

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New “Thaksin’s wave” peculiar in its timing

 

This picture taken on March 25, 2019, shows exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra being interviewed by Agence France-presse in Hong Kong. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

 

Politics, whether it’s an extreme dictatorship, mild fascism, or full-blown democracy, is all about magnifying opponents’ faults and belittling your own in the full glare of the public. Motives are to retain power, or get it, or come back to it. Thaksin Shinawatra cannot escape that reality, so the biggest question concerning his current resurgence is: How risky is it?

 

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Over 15,500 in Bangkok tested positive for COVID-19 with Antigen kits last week

 

 

15,588 people in Bangkok, tested positive for COVID-19 using Antigen Test Kits (ATK), out of 141,516 (11%) screened between August 4th and 9th, according to the Ministry of Public Health today (Wednesday).

 

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