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Private hospitals cannot charge Covid-19 patients for treatment, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) said.NHSO secretary-general Jadet Thammathat-Aree held a video conference with private hospitals nationwide on Wednesday. He said later that the NHSO had asked private hospitals not to charge Covid-19 patients.Private hospitals attending ...

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is concerned with the expected higher number of non-performing loans (NPLs) of tourism-related businesses in the second quarter of this year because of the the third wave of Covid-19.Both the BoT and financial institutions are concerned about rising NPLs in ...

The Thai economy shrank by 2.6% in the first quarter of this year — an improvement from a 4.2% contraction in the previous quarter — after it was boosted by a continued increase in agricultural production, recovery of non-agricultural production, acceleration in domestic investments, rise ...

Thailand’s banking system remained resilient with high capital buffers and liquidity to cushion economic uncertainty, the Bank of Thailand (BoT) said on Monday, as the country deals with a third wave of coronavirus infections.The outbreak, the country’s biggest so far, has hit consumption and tourism, ...

A majority of people think the government’s “work from home” policy for employees in both the public and private sectors can help reduce the risk of contracting Covid-19, a survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University (Suan Dusit Poll) reveals.The poll was conducted online on May ...

China’s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine and the formula by AstraZeneca have both been found to boost antibody responses in almost all vaccine recipients.This was the outcome of a study into a vaccination programme run by the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology of the Faculty of ...

The Transport Ministry is gearing up for the resumption of air travel in November.Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said after a meeting between the members of the Civil Aviation Board that he had asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand to collaborate with public health agencies, ...

The government is set to relax Covid-19 restrictions, including allowing dine-in services to open until 9pm in maximum and strict control “dark-red zone” provinces.Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, as director of the CCSA, has ...

The Bank of Thailand has added measures on retail loan restructuring as part of its third phase of debt relief for individual borrowers, aiming to ease hardships caused by the pandemic.The central bank started implementing new measures for debt relief on Friday, including restructuring consumer ...

The Bank of Thailand predicts domestic tourism will be weaker in May than the previous month because of the severity of the third wave.The central bank reported the hotel occupancy rate in April was below 20% on average because of the significant decline in local ...