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The Public Health Ministry is piloting home and community treatment for Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms (green category), as surging cases threaten to overwhelm hospital bed capacity.Bed occupancy has risen by 10,000 within one month and ICU units are treating 400 critically ill Covid-19 patients, ...

The government is being urged to speed up allocation of Covid-19 vaccines to the manufacturing sector to increase exports, which are the only engine driving the country’s economy.Chaichan Chareonsuk, president of the Thai National Shippers’ Council (TNSC), said the group repeated its call for the ...

Thailand’s economy faced significant downside risks and limited policy room should be preserved to be used for the most effective time, the central bank’s minutes of its last meeting showed on Wednesday.A prolonged coronavirus outbreak could cause Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy to underperform the baseline ...

Thailand’s exports are expected to rise more than 7% in the third quarter from a year earlier and 6% in the final quarter of the year, lifted by higher global demand and a weaker baht, the Thai National Shippers’ Council said on Tuesday.Exports could grow ...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Sunday asked citizens to dispose of infectious wastes properly.BMA deputy permanent secretary Chatri Wattanakhejorn said amid the Covid-19 situation, Bangkok generated 11,393 tonnes of infectious wastes, or 63 tonnes per day, between January and June this year.“Of the total, ...

Images of hornbills and other rare wild animals taken in Songkhla’s Khao Nam Khang National Park were posted on the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Facebook page on Sunday.Parit Narasaritkul, the national park’s chief, said the discovery of up to 200 plain-pouched ...

The Tourism and Sports Ministry plans to ask the Finance Ministry for 10 billion baht in soft loans to help operators prepare their businesses for the mid-October reopening deadline.Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, the tourism and sports minister, said if the Phuket sandbox operates smoothly, his ministry will ...

The Delta variant is responsible for 70% of people in Bangkok falling sick with Covid-19, says a study by the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University.The findings were revealed by Yong Poovorawan, the centre director, on his Facebook page.He said the first ...

Airports of Thailand (AoT) is saying that it is ready to welcome international tourists under the Phuket sandbox tourism scheme, while revealing that air traffic at six of its airports dropped by 71% in the last fiscal year to the Covid-19 pandemic.These comprise Suvarnabhumi, Don ...

Thailand’s foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to recover next year, especially for hotels, tourism and other sectors such as electronics and wafer fabrication for which the Board of Investment has offered attractive tax breaks.Speaking at an online seminar “Key Findings Of UNCTAD World Investment ...