Prayut OKs Private Covid-19 Vaccine Imports, But Won’t Allow Use Without...
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday gave the official go-ahead for private hospitals and other companies to directly purchase coronavirus vaccines from overseas, but...
Thailand’s ‘Red Zones’ Quickly Fading to Green as Only 7 Provinces...
Thailand’s coronavirus map is quickly trending toward green, with fewer provinces reporting new Covid-19 cases every day. Apisamai Srirangsan, spokeswoman for the Center for Covid-19...
‘Golf Quarantine’ Now Available at 6 Thailand Resorts
The Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operation Centre for Covid-19 recently announced a list of government-approved golf resorts to allow foreign golfers with advance...
Phichit Man Thailand’s 72nd Covid-19 Fatality as CCSA Reports 198 New...
Only 69 cases – 5 in Bangkok – found "in the wild".
AstraZeneca Rethinks Thailand Vaccine Plans Amid Gov’t Prosecution of Covid-19 Critic
Generals may have imperiled country's entire vaccination plan with rabid pursuit of pro-democracy activist for questioning royal role in vaccine rollout
Questioning Thailand’s Slow Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign Can Mean Prison
In their latest judicial action, authorities have charged Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit with royal defamation
With Pivot to Mass Testing, Thailand Unlikely to See 0 Covid-19...
Kingdom discovers what West already knew: More testing leads to more cases, including 309 Friday
Bangkok to Ease Shutdown Friday; Limits on Bars, Restaurants to Remain
13 business sectors get OK to reopen, but pubs to stay closed, restaurant hours limit, alcohol ban to continue
Cambodia to Begin Mass Covid-19 Vaccinations, Aided by Australia, China, India
Cambodia is gearing up for mass inoculations against the Covid-19 virus, with China providing the first million doses while India has been asked to...
Registration Opens Jan. 29 for Pandemic-Relief Stipends for Informal Workers
Registration opens Jan. 29 for government’s coronavirus-relief stipend program for casual workers after the Cabinet approved two monthly payments of 3,500 baht. The “Rao Chana”...
Pressure Mounts to End Shutdowns as Local Covid-19 Cases Drop...
A steady and significant drop in locally transmitted coronavirus cases across Thailand is fueling expectations that restrictions on travel and businesses will be lifted...
Immigration Drops Covid-19 Test Requirement for Renewing Thailand Visas
The Immigration Bureau backed down from a proposal to require foreigners seeking to extend visas to produce proof of a negative coronavirus test, calling...
Thailand Waited to Secure Vaccines; Now, as Covid-19 2nd Wave Rages,...
During its eight-month streak with only a handful of local coronavirus cases, Thailand appeared in no hurry to reserve any of the emerging Covid-19...
AstraZeneca, China’s Sinovac Apply for Covid-19 Vaccine Registration in Thailand
Two companies have applied for Covid-19 vaccine registration with the Food and Drug Administration. FDA Secretary-General Paisarn Dunkum identified the applicants as AstraZeneca (Thailand) and...
Samut Sakhon Stadium Field Hospital to Close Jan. 14 as Province’s...
Nearly 200 Burmese migrants confined to a field hospital in Samut Sakhon were discharged Tuesday after being cleared of their coronavirus infections. The 180 patients...
Thailand’s Plane-Less Aircraft Carrier Loses Half of Crew to Covid-19 Quarantine
Its planes are mothballed and it rarely leaves port, but Thailand’s white-elephant aircraft carrier now has a new problem. It doesn’t have half its...
60% of Thais Working In Myanmar Casinos Return Home with Covid-19
Another 100-plus soldiers were deployed to patrol Thailand’s northern border in to stem illegal crossing from Myawaddy from where Thai casino workers are expected...
1,300 Coronavirus Field Hospital Beds Readied in Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani
Ye Yan Aung, labor attaché for the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, on Monday visited a field hospital under construction at the Wattana Factory Project...
Thailand’s Coronavirus Outbreak Shows No Sign of Decline with 249 Cases
Thailand on Monday recorded 249 new Covid-19 cases, raising its cumulative total to 10,547, including 6,090 cases since Dec. 15 when the second coronavirus...
Samut Sakhon Canneries Comprise Third of Thailand’s 305 New Coronavirus Cases
Migrant workers in Samut Sakhon’s canneries continue to fuel Thailand’s daily increases in coronavirus cases with the country reporting 305 confirmed infections on Thursday,...
914 or 69? Tuna Giant Thai Union Distorts Massive Coronavirus Outbreak...
UPDATE: Provincial health officials contradict world's largest tuna canner, which claimed only 69 workers contracted coronavirus
After Waffling, Prayut Locks Down Pattaya, 5 Covid-19 ‘Red Zone’ Provinces
Non-essential interprovincial travel banned; Koh Si Chang closed, U-Tapao airport suspends commercial flights
Signs of Progress as Thailand’s Local Coronavirus Cases Drop to 82
Putting aside 439 newly confirmed cases among Samut Sakhon migrant workers, Thailand’s Tuesday coronavirus report offered a glimmer of hope the second-wave could end...
Prayut Puts Kibosh on Hard Lockdown for 5 Provinces After Blowhard...
PM, CCSA, NNT all deny travel restrictions for Pattaya, Chonburi, Rayong and other provinces approved
Thailand Today to Decide Ban on British Arrivals to Block Virulent...
The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration will decide today whether to block the entry of British nationals to prevent an ultra-infectious mutation of the...