Disaster Risk Reduction in Thailand: Status Report 2020
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Thailand’s Response to COVID-19 and Disaster Risk Reduction
The first confirmed COVID-19 case was reported on January 13, 2020. Daily new COVID-19 cases had been in rising then on. The situation was brought under control in July-November, yet lately in 2020, daily new cases have increased significant. A state of emergency was declared on March 26, 2020 and has been extended to February 2021. International flights transporting Covid-19 passengers are banned from transiting through Thailand and the government has stepped up border surveillance to stop the import of COVID-19 cases from neighboring countries. The Government has approved a fiscal package of THB 1.5 trillion (around 9.6 percent of GDP) for health emergency related spending.
Phuket under face mask order, B20k fine
Phuket under face mask order, B20k fine
PHUKET: Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew has issued a provincial order making it illegal to not wear a face mask in a public area. The penalty for breach of the order is a fine of up to B20,000 or may even include a jail term, the order warned.
Thursday 7 January 2021, 11:31PM
Image: PR Phuket
The Phuket office of the Public Relations Department (PR Phuket) published the order just before 6:30pm today (Jan 7).
The order was also marked as effective from today (Jan 7).
The order, designated Phuket Provincial Order 62/2021, was approved by the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee yesterday, noted the announcement by PR Phuket.
Two Thais caught climbing border fence, returning from Myanmar
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 12:21
20 A health official measures the body temperature of Arsuening Marudee, 23, one of the two people from Narathiwat caught climbing over a border fence to return from Myanmar to Kanchanaburi s Sangkhla Buri district on Tuesday night. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: Two people from Narathiwat province were caught climbing over a border fence, from Myanmar to a village in Sangkhla Buri district, on Tuesday night.
The two, a man and a woman, were spotted by a team of immigration officers, soldiers and police.
They were climbing over the fence along the border behind Wat Phra Chedi Sam Ong in tambon Nong Loo
16. 12. 2020
At its 44th regular session, the Government adopted many acts related to the COVID-19 epidemic. It therefore extended the epidemic by one month, kept the measures at border crossings, and adopted some changes on the green and red lists of countries. The Government extends the epidemic by one month |
Author Tamino Petelinšek, STA
The Government extends the epidemic by one month
The Government has issued the Ordinance on the declaration of the COVID-19 epidemic in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia, and published it in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. In line with the Communicable Diseases Act, the ordinance declares the COVID-19 epidemic within the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The ordinance enters into force on 18 December 2020 and shall remain valid for 30 days.