The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has identified three major diseases – COVID-19, influenza, and dengue fever – as potential pandemic threats for the year 2024. Highly transmissible but mild Covid strain now dominant BANGKOK (NNT) – Alongside these, the department is also closely monitoring 12 other seasonal and group-specific diseases. Dr Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, the […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – Debt has become a major problem for many Thais, especially in the aftermath of the global pandemic. The government has marked 2022 as the “year for household debt resolution” with four expos held throughout the year. The latest of these expo recently concluded in Chiang Mai province. Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith inaugurated […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – At the 22nd World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) presented the country’s plan to achieve 10 million international visitor arrivals by 2022. As one of the panel speakers on “The Recovery of Travel in Asia and the Pacific,” TAT governor […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – The National Communicable Disease Committee (NCDC) of Thailand has approved a management strategy for Covid-19, which is set to become an endemic disease under surveillance in October. The Ministry of Public Health has downgraded Covid-19 from a dangerous communicable disease to an endemic disease subject to surveillance under communicable disease law B.E. […]
The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) is expected to announce a series of measures this Friday, in line with the reclassification of COVID-19 as an “infectious disease under watch”, as Thailand officially moves into a post-pandemic era from October 1st. The Thai Ministry of Public Health issued two announcements on Monday to reclassify COVID-19 […]
The government is ready to announce the downgrade of Covid-19 from a dangerous communicable disease to one that is “communicable under surveillance” from Oct 1, said Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Mr Anutin was speaking on Wednesday after meeting senior Public Health Ministry officials and said the Covid-19 situation now appears suitable for regrading. Full […]
The government will declare Covid-19 endemic in October, and the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will then no longer be the main agency dealing with the disease. CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said on Friday that from October the disease would be under the emergency operations centre of the Public Health Ministry and provincial communicable […]
A leading pulmonary disease specialist has called on the Ministry of Public Health to postpone its plan to declare Thailand in the post-pandemic stage from today, a prelude to declaring Covid-19 an endemic disease. The number of new patients infected with Covid-19 admitted to privately run Vichaiyut Hospital is rising at a high enough rate […]
