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Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) is enabling people to make appointments for COVID-19 tests, using the QueQ app. DDC Director-General Dr Opas Karnkawinpong said the app enables people to receive confirmation for a test the next day, if they register between 8am and 6pm. After submitting their request, applicants…

Thailand’s Panipak Wongpattanakit has won gold in the dying moments in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Taekwondo women’s -49kg. Panipak Wongpattanakit can now add Olympic champion to her growing list of accolades after snatching the gold medal from Spain’s Adriana Cerezo Iglesias in the final seconds of the women’s taekwondo -49kg…

Dear friends in Thailand, As AstraZeneca’s representative here, I see the challenges that all of us across the country face in the battle against COVID-19 and want to explain what we are doing to help. The rising number of confirmed COVID-19 delta cases in Thailand concerns all of us at…

The Philippines will suspend travel from Thailand and Malaysia, as well as tighten restrictions in the Manila area, in a bid to prevent the spread of the contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. Philippines presidential spokesman said on 23 July that the travel restriction will take effect from 25 July…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that the Thai government tighten existing measures to control the COVID-19 outbreak, similar to the initial response to last year’s first wave. Dr Richard Brown, Health Emergencies program manager of the WHO’s Thailand office, said the main reason for Thailand’s problems was the…

The proposal seeks to reduce the mandatory stay in Phuket to just 7 days, then allowing travellers to continue another 7 nights in selected areas in Surat Thani, Krabi, or Phang Nga. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to report that the Centre for Economic Situation Administration (CESA)…