Pandemics

Thailand will begin clinical trials of a locally developed Covid-19 vaccine in March, making it the nation’s first inoculation programme to enter human trials.The programme, led by the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation, Mahidol University and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, started its research mid-2020 ...

Thailand’s Outsourcing Employment Association revealed that even though the country has been hit by a Covid-19 outbreak twice, the demand for blue-collar workers has not fallen.Visuth Panthavuthiyanont, the association’s chairman, said on Tuesday that Thailand’s labour market was badly affected by the nationwide lockdown between ...

There have been concerns over data privacy in Thailand’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, as the country battles a new wave of infections.Despite these challenges, the authorities are trying to encourage more people to use the app, including via efforts to protect personal information.Since mid-December, Thailand ...

In a bid to protect people, private organisations and local authorities are not allowed to purchase Covid-19 vaccines yet, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Tuesday.He explained that some vaccines have not undergone all phases of testing, and their efficiency and side effects are ...

Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith has expressed concerns over how a continuous drop in tax revenue collection will affect fiscal policy conduct in the long run.As the government aims to implement a long-term fiscal expansionary policy framework, the lower revenue collection as a percentage of GDP ...

The Finance Ministry is preparing to reconsider the eligibility criteria for receiving financial aid under the Rao Chana (We Win) scheme, which stipulates recipients should have a taxable income of no more than 300,000 baht per year.Approved in January, the We Win scheme aims to ...

Thailand is implementing the “seal and bubble” strategy to curb the spread of COVID-19 in factories in Samut Sakhon, the epicentre of the latest outbreak in the kingdom.Ministry of Foreign Affairs deputy spokesman Natapanu Nopakun said for factories providing on-site accommodation for their workers, the ...

Fuel consumption in Thailand contracted in January, especially for jet fuel, following the return of Covid-19 in mid-December last year, according to the Department of Energy Business (DOEB).The largest plunge was jet fuel consumption, which contracted by 82.6% to a daily average of 3.85 from ...

Thailand will import the first doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from Asia after Europe enforced export controls, the country’s health minister said on Thursday.The European Union (EU) last week set restrictions on the export of vaccines from the bloc through to March to ensure it will ...

The Tourism Minister will discuss with the prime minister a request for 5 million doses of vaccination for the tourism industry and also push a vaccine passport measure to enable foreigners to return in the third quarter of this year.Minister for Tourism and Sports Phiphat ...