đčđ THAI NEWS SUMMARY: The morning headlines for Friday.
♦️ Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday insisted he has no plans to change the cabinet line-up or dissolve the House of Representatives and call an early general election.
♦️ Thailand will resume registrations for the 'Test & Go' quarantine waiver for vaccinated arrivals from 1st February, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Thursday, in response to slowing coronavirus infections.
♦️ The Thai government has further relaxed Covid-19 measures in "orange" provinces as well as "blue" tourism provinces, allowing restaurants to remain open for two more hours until 11pm for alcoholic drinks.
♦️ The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration agreed with the extension of the state of emergency for two months and reduced the number of COVID-19 control provinces to 44 from Jan 24 onwards.
♦️ The Public Health Ministry's controlled drugs committee on Thursday approved the removal of cannabis from the list of illicit drugs. The decision will be referred to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board for approval.
♦️ The Bank of Thailand (BOT) will issue 20-baht polymer banknotes from 24th March in order to have new and clean notes in circulation that can last longer.
♦️ The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand has explained that 5G emissions do not affect aviation and confirmed that the signals are on a different wavelength. The CAAT said that they have been monitoring the issue closely since last year.
♦️ Thailand's Public Health Ministry will not order schools to close down because a few pupils are infected with Covid-19, but only if there are clusters of infections, according to the deputy director-general of the Department of Health.