Tag archives: COVID19

Several shopping malls in Thailand have offered space for the setting up of vaccination centers for the benefit of the public. One of these venues in Bangkok is Asiatique the Riverfront, which is now offering jabs at a limited capacity, ahead of the vaccination drive to start next month. People…

 With the new term pushed back to a June 14 start, schools across the country are now making preparations for a safe reopening for their students and staff, from providing COVID-19 tests to implementing more stringent prevention measures at campuses. In Yala province, 135 teachers, school personnel, and interns at…

Bangkok Governor, Atsawin Khwanmuang, today followed the first day of operation of Bangkok’s 6th field hospital located in Bangkok Noi district, and capable of handling 200 patient beds.   Bangkok’s 6th field hospital is located in Wat Sri Sudaram temple in Bangkok Noi district. The hospital is designed to receive…

Academics have voiced concern over young children watching online lessons, as much of the online content does not fully enhance creative development. Dr. Pairoj Sainuam, of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, said surveys show that parents are allowing children to get connected to the internet from the age of three,…

The Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) timeline to reopen six major tourist provinces – Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga, Surat Thani (Ko Samui), Chon Buri (Pattaya) and Chiang Mai – to foreign tourists who have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine is going ahead as scheduled in line with the country’s…

A study, conducted by Chulalongkorn’s Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, shows that those who receive one shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine showed a 96.7% increase in immunity, when compared to unvaccinated individuals. Prof. Dr. Yong Poovorawan said the study also found those who had recovered from COVID-19, between…