NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Suwat Jangyodsuk today (Dec. 1) ordered urgent tracking of 783 foreign tourists to come in for the RT-PCR Covid test and also tightened border controls to block the new Omicron variant, Amarin TV said. He had told Immigration Bureau to check how many foreign tourists came to Thailand from Nov.
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Nigeria says found Omicron variant from October samples
By Reuters Staff, published by Today Online Abuja – Nigeria said today (Dec. 1) it had confirmed its first cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, among them a sample from travellers who came to Nigeria in October, suggesting it had turned up weeks before it was reported in southern Africa. “Retrospective sequencing of the previously
Read moreMan held for assaulting, robbing Russian woman
A THAI man from Rayong province was arrested at Pattaya beach today (Dec.1) for assaulting and robbing a Russian woman tourist last Sunday (Nov. 28), TV Channel 7 said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Atthasit Kitchahan, commander of the Chonburi provincial police, said Mr. Kriengsak Klomkaew or Ped Na Lai, 42, was arrested under a Pattaya provincial
Read moreProtest leader Rung bailed out to sit for exams
GRANTED bail to take exams by two courts this afternoon (Dec. 1) was protest leader Ms. Panusaya Sitthichirawattanakul, or Rung, with this temporary release under strict conditions to end on Jan. 12, 2022, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Krisadang Nutcharat, from the Centre for Human Rights Lawyers, said a team of lawyers had applied for bail
Read moreIntimidating jab appointment message draws flak
THAI netizens heavily criticised an intimidating message at the end of Covid jab appointment slips issued in Roi Et province that brands the recipient as a dangerous person who needs to urgently get vaccinated, Siam Rath newspaper and TV Channel 7 said this morning (Dec. 1). Mr. Pakphum Dejhassadin, a medical technologist who runs
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