Coronavirus

Thailand pivots from targeted Covid-19 testing to mass tests in areas bordering Myanmar

Thailand again crossed the 10,000-mark for new daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, but the government spent its time blaming tourists arriving in Phuket. A week...

Analysis: With community transmission of Covid-19 at zero and contact-tracing in place, the junta leaders can't justify their war on booze

Bang Sue Grand Station’s Central Vaccination Center began administering booster shots en masse to those who got their first doses there. January appointment dates disappeared...

Thailand’s anti-nightlife, anti-alcohol public health minister appears to have won an internal argument over further relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions, with the ministry announcing it...

Importer argues China has approved the drug even for babies, so it must be OK.

Thailand’s public health minister says the government still wants to “control people’s behavior” and will not drop its universal face mask mandate, even when...

Authorities have ordered commercial affairs agencies to regulate the pricing of home-use Covid-19 antigen test kits, as increasing demand amid spiking cases leads to...

With its tourism industry in a coma, Thailand is hoping that travel bubbles will be the thing to revive it.

. Gov't speeding to reach 100-million dose goal that means less with every booster.

Thailand has taken delivery of its first 2 million capsules of Molnupiravir, a game-changing oral Covid-19 medication that should replace the mostly useless antiviral...

A Public Health Ministry committee endorsed a plan to allow subdistrict hospitals and mobile units to become Covid-19 vaccination centers for Thailand’s rural population. Minister...

Thailand is making its own coronavirus tests, PPE, vaccine to prepare for 2nd wave

Chumphon Provincial reported one more Covid-19 death, the 56-year-old woman with pre-existing health conditions. The woman had underlying health conditions. She had the end-stage renal...

Basic supplies for the vaccine come from abroad and, should Thailand block exports, AstraZeneca could simply cut off Thailand’s supply, leaving the country nearly entirely dependent on inferior-quality Chinese vaccines.

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...

Lockdown saw people earning less, but also spending less, saving more

The organizer of the “Jennie Lily Daimod Thasodchuen” concert acknowledged a charge from Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Cha-uat District for failing to implement disease-control measures...

Panthera Group, Thailand’s largest operator of bars, restaurants and nightclubs, came to the rescue of Bangkok’s forgotten taxi drivers, donating hundreds of food bags...

Flights are banned until July and overstaying foreigners don’thave to worry about visas until August, so the announcement that the government would extend its...

The Ministry of Public Health will issue the e-Vaccine Passports for those who have been vaccinated in Thailand, free of charge. Anyone who wishes to...

. Anutin flip-flops again, now says approved T&G tourists must enter Thailand before Jan. 10 or face quarantine

The Delta Covid-19 variant has overtaken the Alpha mutation as the dominant strain in Thailand with the highly contagious virus responsible for adding more than 13,000 new cases on Wednesday alone.

Thailand reported no new cases of Covid-19 and zero new deaths over the past 24 hours as new cases in the past two weeks...

The shoreline is too open, local officials warned, making it impossible to track any Covid-19 cases