đčđ THAI NEWS SUMMARY: The morning headlines for Tuesday.
♦️New cases of Covid-19 could jump to 20,000 a day by the end of this month, and 30,000 by the end of next month, unless precautionary measures are taken seriously, the CCSA said.
♦️ The Commerce Ministry is monitoring antigen test kits (ATK) prices to ensure they remain affordable for the public amid a surge of Covid-19 infections in Bangkok and provinces.
♦️ The Public Health Ministry intends to make Covid-19 endemic this year because the current wave shows mild symptoms and people have cooperated with the vaccination drive.
♦️ Thailand and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the well-known Malay Muslim separatist group, will begin their long-awaited third round of peace talks on 11th January in Kuala Lumpur.
♦️ The government on Monday denied accusations it has covered up an outbreak of African swine fever, after a university lab test conducted last month indicated a pet pig had died from the disease.
♦️ The farm price of chicken eggs rose from 2.80 baht to 3.00 baht per unit due to the rising costs of farmers, according to the Layer Farmer Association.
♦️ The Omicron variant is now the dominant COVID-19 strain in Thailand, representing 70.3% of new infections, with total Omicron cases numbering 5,397, spread over 71 out of the 77 provinces.
♦️ About 39 million purported patient records from Siriraj Hospital have been offered for sale on an internet database-sharing forum in what appears to be the latest hack of the public health sector.