By CNN “NOMADLAND,” director Chloé Zhao’s small-boned movie about nomads in America, earned best picture at a 93rd Academy Awards defined by the pandemic, as movies that premiered on streaming services ruled the ceremony — an in-person event mounted under Covid protocols. In a year where the pandemic shuttered theaters and turned movie-goers
Read moreDay: April 26, 2021
Prime Minister fined 6,000 baht for not wearing face mask
AFTER Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha posted a photo of himself attending a meeting with his advisers this morning (April 26) on sharply stepping the vaccination drive in the country without wearing a face mask, he was later fined 6,000 baht by the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) for not doing so, TV Channel 7 said.
Read morePM sets new vaccination goal: 300,000 jabs a day
WITH the upswing in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said in a Facebook post today (April 26) that the most urgent and important task right now is to sharply increasing the vaccination of the people in this country with the goal being to inject 300,000 or more
Read moreDaily Covid count still high at 2,048, 563 pneumonia cases
THE PUBLIC Health Ministry said this morning (April 26) that there were 2,048 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, still high but lower than yesterday’s total of 2,438 cases, while 563 patients are suffering from pneumonia, Siam Rath newspaper said. The ministry’ Department of Disease Control also revealed that there were eight more deaths
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