THE Public Health Ministry has issued updated data, on the continued use of the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine and its efficacy, to support the decision to purchase another 12 million doses. Department of Disease Control’s director for emergency health hazards and diseases Dr. Chawetsan Namwat said all vaccines approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO),
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Anti-Prayut, indy protesters clash with police at same spot again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters INDEPENDENT STREET PROTESTERS CLASHED with crowd-control police again today (Aug 18) at the same spot near the army barracks which houses Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s residence on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road. The anti-Prayut protesters, many riding on motorcycles and putting on crash helmets, gathered at Sam Liam Din Daeng intersection
Read moreElderly Frenchman blacks out, hits 10 vehicles in Pattaya
A 78-year-old Frechman lost control of his pickup truck and hit a food vendor’s tricycle, seriously injuring her, then slammed into over 10 other motorcycles and cars parked at the side of a Pattaya road after apparently blacking out, Sanook.com said this afternoon (Aug. 18). Pol. Col. Chonlawit Athipansi, deputy inspector for Investigation at Pattaya
Read moreCovid panel floats company isolation plan
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) smaller panel has come up with the idea to implement company isolation to reduce coronavirus infection at the workplace with this to apply to those firms that are ready for it, TV Channel 7 said today (August 18). CCSA’s assistant spokeswoman Dr Apisamai Srirangsan said with it
Read moreDaily Covid deaths rise to 312 while 28 youths nabbed at a party
THAILAND saw its daily Covid death count climb to record 312 but the number of cases held steady at 20,515 today (Aug. 18) while 28 youths were rounded up for holding a party in Ratchadapisek area, Sanook.com said. The Public Health Ministry said of today’s new batch of cases 20,267 were among the general
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