A cargo terminal, inside Don Mueang International Airport, is being converted into a huge field hospital with the capacity to accommodate 2,000 asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 cases beginning on July 12th. Managing Director of Airports of Thailand Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said today (Tuesday) that the Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with the Treasury Department and […]Read More
A 51-year-old woman still waiting for a hospital bed five days after testing positive for Covid-19 injured herself jumping from a second-floor window on Tuesday, and was rushed to a hospital. Police and medics from the Erawan rescue unit were called to Soi Charoen Nakhon 46 in Bangkok’s Klong San district, where a woman was […]Read More
Bangkok’s main international airport, Suvarnabhumi, remains open as normal with planes landing and taking off as usual, said Deputy Director of Suvarnabhumi Airport Kittiya Kontong today (Monday). A huge plume of black smoke, billowing from a burning chemical factory in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan, can be clearly seen in the skies over parts […]Read More
Three groups of anti-government protesters took to Bangkok streets on Saturday afternoon, demanding the resignation of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha as prime minister. At 3pm, the Prachachon Khon Thai group met at the U-rupong intersection and planed to march to the Government House. It was led by Nititorn Lamlua, a former co-leader of the now-defunct People’s […]Read More
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is setting up six pre-admission centres, with the first being at Wat Saphan in Klongtoey and the second at the health promotion centre in Petchkasem Soi 69, to accommodate asymptomatic cases and those with mild symptoms, while they are waiting for hospital beds. Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (Friday) […]Read More
BANGKOK, July 2 (TNA) – The severe shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in Bangkok will continue in the next 7-14 days, according to Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha. After meeting representatives of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and medical schools on Thursday, Mr Sathit said that the shortages of hospital beds for critically […]Read More
An elderly man fell to his death from the three-storey building where he lived after his bed-ridden daughter was infected with the coronavirus disease and died. Pengkee Sae Tia, 84, was found dead with severe head injuries on the pavement in front of the building on Soi Phayanak, off Banthadthong Road in Ratchathewi district, about […]Read More
BANGKOK (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), in cooperation with the military and the Metropolitan Police Bureau, has set up six checkpoints on the capital’s outbound roads, to prevent construction workers leaving the capital for their home provinces. BMA permanent secretary Silapasuay Raweesangsoon said the move is in compliance with a Centre for the […]Read More
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