torsdag 2 juni 2022

Phuket drops outdoor face mask requirement | Thaiger

Phuket drops outdoor face mask requirement

Wearing a mask in outdoor public spaces will no longer be a requirement in Phuket province, effective from yesterday, June 1. Medical or cloth face masks will still be required to be worn indoors, in crowded spaces and in badly ventilated spaces. The mask requirement – indoors and outdoors – is still in effect in all other provinces around the kingdom, for the meantime anyway.

In Phuket only, people may remove their masks at the beach, public parks, sports stadiums and other public areas, but are urged to keep a social distance of 2 metres at all times.

Last week, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health Kiattiphum Wongrajit announced the ministry would drop the mask mandate, in outdoor spaces, in "certain areas" of Thailand to begin with. The ministry said the mask requirement could be dropped in areas with a low case numbers of Covid-19 cases, a high vaccination rate and "medical preparedness".

Currently, Phuket is the only province where the outdoor mask mandate has been dropped.

As for the rest of Thailand, the ministry said people could expect the outdoor mask mandate to be dropped around mid-June. However, just two days ago, a spokesperson for Thailand's PM Prayut Chan-o-cha's said "the government has no plan to allow people to remove face masks because it is necessary to prevent the spread of Covid-19."

SOURCE: Dailynews






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onsdag 1 juni 2022

COVID to Become Communicable Disease under Surveillance - BANGKOK, June 1 (TNA) – Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he would propose to categorize COVID-19 as a communicable disease under surveillance and set aside a plan to declare it an endemic disease.

COVID to Become Communicable Disease under Surveillance

1 June 2022  18:19

BANGKOK, June 1 (TNA) – Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he would propose to categorize COVID-19 as a communicable disease under surveillance and set aside a plan to declare it an endemic disease.

After his meeting with pubic health executives, Mr Anutin said that each day the country logged less than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases and few than 50 new fatalities related to the disease. Besides, more than 140 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

Therefore, the ministry supported the reopening of pubs, bars, karaoke shops and massage parlors today (June 1). Such entertainment places would close at midnight, he said.

Mr Anutin said that although their reopening could raise the number of new COVID-19 cases, their illnesses would not be severe. Provincial communicable diseases committees would assess their COVID-19 situations in a few weeks, he said.

Regarding Thailand's planned declaration of COVID-19 as an endemic disease, Mr Anutin said he would wait for a relevant stance from the World Health Organization. For the time being, he said he would propose the National Communicable Diseases Committee consider COVID-19 as a communicable disease under surveillance similar to general communicable diseases. (TNA)






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