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Two patients in Singapore died from COVID-19 on Saturday morning due to complications, the first deaths the republic has seen, the Straits Times reported. It said a 75-year-old Singaporean woman with a history of chronic heart disease and hypertension died at 7.52am. She was linked to the cluster at The Life Church and Missions Singapore.
Country music legend Kenny Rogers, whose career spanned six decades, has died at the age of 81, his family said late Friday. “Rogers passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family,” they said in a statement. The family said they were planning a small private service “out of
Bangkok authorities have insisted that the new package of stringent measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus does not amount to a lockdown of the city. But judging from its nature, it certainly very much looks like one. The primary objective of a lockdown is to minimize movements of people. And if you don’t
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today called for collective efforts by all Thais to fight the coronavirus pandemic which continues to ravage more than half of the countries in the world. Speaking in an interview with ThaiPBS World, Anutin said Thailand might not need to go into lockdown like several
The World Health Organization’s representative in Thailand has praised Thailand for its ability, to date, to contain the spread of COVID-19 and for being the first country, outside China, to identify a coronavirus as the cause, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. The WHO’s Dr. Daniel Kertesz called on Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul at the
Thailand reported 89 confirmed new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the biggest single day jump to date. This brings the country’s total confirmed infections to 411, with the boxing stadium cluster accounting for 32. The infected boxing fans were finally located in Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, Kanchanaburi, Ubon Ratchathani, Surat Thani, Surin, Krabi and Suphan Buri
Thai Lion Air has notified the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand that it will temporarily suspend operations, for both domestic and international flights, effective March 25th, until the COVID-19 outbreak situation eases off or May 1st, whichever is the later. In a letter to CAAT director Mr. Chula Sukmanop, Thai Lion Air CEO Aswin Yongkiratikorn
New York and Illinois followed California Friday in locking down to stem the coronavirus pandemic as President Donald Trump declared the United States was already “winning” the war despite a rapid rise in confirmed cases and deaths. The move effectively seals off America’s largest cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — with the
The new anti-virus restrictions, just announced by the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT), requiring airlines to demand “fit to fly” health certificates from passengers before boarding a flight to Thailand, have thrown many Thai citizens overseas, who want to fly home, into confusion. One Facebook poster, Sirada K. Ning, said that the Embassy
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is ready to take decisive action at the appropriate time, to cope with the relentless spread of COVID-19 but, for the time being, he prefers the step-by-step approach, to reduce the impact on the people, said government spokeswoman Mrs. Narumon Pinyosinwat on Friday evening. She said that the Prime Minister
Former Deputy Commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday, after the Bangkok South Criminal Court found him guilty of falsifying documents and using them in the transfer of about 300 million baht in shares from a property developer to him and his two accomplices, Ms. Kanthana “Namtarn” and Ms.
Fifty new COVID-19 cases were reported Friday morning, by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, including a six-month old baby, the country’s youngest victim to date. This brings the total known infections in Thailand to 322 so far. Disease Control Department director-general Dr. Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai told the media in its daily briefing that 41
President Donald Trump focused attention on possible treatments for the new coronavirus on Thursday, citing potential use of a drug long used to treat malaria and some other approaches still in testing. At a White House news conference, Trump and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn cited the malaria drug chloroquine, along
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – The governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Friday declared a state of emergency for the next two weeks in the city, the centre of Indonesia’s coronavirus outbreak, as the death toll in the country climbed to the highest in South-east Asia. Governor Anies Baswedan also said that public entertainment such as bars,
Fighting COVID-19 is a long-haul battle, like running a marathon, as the contagion will remain with mankind for a long time, at least until there is an effective vaccine, said Thailand’s renowned virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan in his Facebook post today (Friday). One of the top medical specialists, recruited by the Thai government to
