Crowd control police fired teargas and rubber bullets at hardcore protesters this evening, as the demonstrators tried to breach a wall of shipping containers, placed at the main Din Daeng intersection in Bangkok to prevent them from moving toward the F…
Day: August 13, 2021
Protection for medics or impunity for govt: COVID amnesty bill under spotlight
The government is poised to declare one of its most controversial decrees under emergency law – one that would hand legal immunity to both COVID-19 health workers and those in charge of vaccine procurement.While Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirak…
Human trials of Thailand’s first COVID protein subunit vaccine to begin in September
The first phase of human trials of a COVID-19 protein subunit vaccine, jointly developed by the Vaccine Research Centre of Chulalongkorn University and Baiya Phytopharm Company, will be launched in September, said Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anut…
334 die post COVID-19 inoculation, 278 confirmed not linked to vaccine
A total of 334 people have died after they were inoculated against COVID-19, but posthumous tests have confirmed 278 cases were not linked to the vaccines, while the remaining cases are still being examined, according to Dr. Chawetsan Namwat, emergency…
Domestic tourism urged to be promoted as backup plan to overseas arrivals
The Thai Hotels Association is urging the government to come up with measures to promote domestic tourism, because it is unsure that the plan, earlier announced by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to reopen Thailand to foreign visitors by mid-October, …
Thailand consumes nearly a million Favipiravir tablets per day
Nearly one million tablets of the Favipiravir antiviral drug are being consumed per day by COVID-19 patients in Thailand, according to the Public Health Ministry, as new records of infections are being set daily, with new high of 23,418 cases reported …