Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
235 people have been infected with the Indian variant of COVID-19, or B.1.617.2, to date, in 10 Thai provinces, with most in Bangkok, according to the Department of Medical Sciences today (Monday). 206 cases were found in the capital, followed by 17 in Udon Thani, 2 each in Nonthaburi, Phitsanulok, Saraburi, Nakhon Ratchasima, and 1
The Loei provincial administration has decided to postpone vaccination appointments until further notice, as the province is allocated only 600 doses of COVID-19 vaccine per week. On the Facebook page of the provincial public relations office, Governor Chaithawat Niamsiri said yesterday (Friday) that the government had made adjustments to the distribution of vaccines, giving priority
The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has instructed all provincial governors to keep a closer watch on COVID-19 infections in factories and other work places after they have, of late, become hotbeds for cluster infections as 2,631 new cases are reported in Thailand today (Friday). CCSA Assistant Spokesperson Dr. Apisamai Srirangsan said today that
Four people, including a 13-year old girl, in Thailand’s northeastern province of Udon Thani, have been diagnosed with the Indian variant of COVID-19, but their conditions are not serious and they are being monitored closely, said Udon Thani Governor Sayam Sirimongkol today. Three of them are linked to a construction site in the Laksi district
The provincial communicable disease committee of Phetchaburi has ordered the lockdown of six adjoining sub-districts in Khao Yoi district, from Monday for 14 days, after a new cluster of COVID-19 infections were found at a factory. 14 checkpoints have been erected to prevent those at high-risk from leaving the six sub-districts and to prevent outsiders
An additional 146 workers at a chicken processing plant, belonging to CPF Company in Thailand’s central province of Saraburi, have been found infected with COVID-19 today (Sunday), bringing the total so far to 391, according to Saraburi provincial authorities. Of the confirmed cases, 151 are Thai nationals and 240 are Cambodian. 166 are male and
Thailand’s famous Tiger Zoo, in Sriracha district of the eastern province of Chon Buri, is offering its 11 elephants for sale, after the zoo closed on April 30th due to financial issues caused by theCOVID-19 pandemic. According to the zoo’s website, it is offering all 11 elephants,together with their caretakers, to anyone who is interested,
The northern province of Chiang Rai’s communicable disease committee is imposing travel restrictions on all arrivals from the country’s four Dark Red zone provinces – Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan, effective on Friday. Under the order, issued by Chiang Rai Governor Prajon Pratsakul, all arrivals from these four provinces will have to show
About 400 small fishing boats converged off Takuan beach, in Muang district of Thailand’s eastern province or Rayong, to demand compensation from the state for the anticipated impacts on their livelihoods from the reclamation for the third phase of the Map Ta Phut deep-sea port project. Mr. Srinuan Aksornsri, leader of the Ban Takuan fishermen,
Thai security forces arrested 33 illegal migrants from Myanmar in a forest in Sangkhla Buri district of the western province of Kanchanaburi today (Sunday). The Lat Ya Special Task Force said that the group slipped across the porous natural border, from Myanmar’s Mawlamyine province, with the help of a Myanmar-based human trafficking ring, and took
The famous Gems Market, or Gems Road, in Thailand’s the eastern province of Chanthaburi has been ordered to close for 14 days, after a group of 52 African gem traders were found to be infected with COVID-19. Dr. Apirak Pisut-arporn, the provincial health chief, said Friday that this cluster of infections has affected a large
Eight hospitals in Thailand have been temporarily closed after their medical personnel became infected with COVID-19, or had to be quarantined, because a number of patients concealed facts about their infections. The hospitals are: Mae Sai Hospital in Chiang Rai province, closed until May 16th. 88 medics quarantined. Chumsaeng Hospital in Nakhon Sawan province, closed
