đčđ THAI NEWS SUMMARY: The morning headlines for Thursday.
♦️ Former key members of the Palang Pracharath Party have unveiled a new party and taken a firm position against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
♦️ The Ministry of Tourism and Sports will propose restoring the "Test and Go" registration system within February to facilitate more arrivals and boost tourism, Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said on Wednesday.
♦️ The Public Health Ministry is considering the possibility of lowering the Covid-19 alert level from 4 to 3 as the current situation is "partly under control" with less than 20 deaths per day, Minister Anutin Charvirakul said.
♦️ Executive members of Palang Pracharath agreed in a meeting on Wednesday to oust secretary-general Thamanat Prompow and 21 other MPs under his control from the party.
♦️Phuket authorities have vowed to take decisive legal action against tourists who fail to wear face masks in public, saying failure to comply with the disease control requirement is rampant in the island province.
♦️ The official population of Thailand is 66,171,439, according to an announcement of the central domicile registration office. Of the whole population, 65,197,783 hold Thai nationality and 973,656 have non-Thai nationality.
♦️ The Central Committee on the Prices of Goods and Services resolved to control the prices of chickens and chicken meat and ordered large-scaled farms and slaughterhouses to declare their stocks and costs.
♦️ Three million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that Pfizer produced for children will arrive in the country on Jan 26, said Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
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