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In the year since seafood hawkers started appearing at Wuhan’s hospitals sickened with a strange and debilitating pneumonia, the world has learned a lot about Covid-19, from the way it spreads to how to inoculate against the infection. Despite these advances, a chasm remains in our understanding of the virus that’s killed nearly 2 million people and whipsawed the global economy: we still don’t know how it began. Where the pathogen first emerged and how it transmitted to humans is a stub...

A Royal Navy expert who oversaw the safe disposal of a 500lb Luftwaffe bomb found at London’s King George V Docks has been made an MBE in the New Year Honours list. Under Lieutenant Commander Sean “Central” Heaton’s leadership, specialist divers from Portsmouth and Plymouth-based bomb disposal units have rendered safe or disposed of nearly 16,000 potentially explosive items. These included sea mines, torpedoes, hand grenades, mortars and bombs dropped by aircraft, as well as present-day...

194 new Covid cases, including 181 local infections 85 published : 31 Dec 2020 at 13:29 85 Travellers leaving Bangkok by train from Hua Lamphong station on Wednesday, but New Year celebrations will be subdued. The resurgence of Covid-19 this month has already spread to 51 provinces, a government spokesman said on Thursday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) The government on Thursday reported 194 new Covid-19 cases, 181 local infections and 13...

December 31, 2020 Fah Talai Jone (Andrographis Paniculata) being used as a treatment option for early stage Covid-19 patients in Thailand. The Nation/Asia News Network The Department of Thai Traditional Medicine is joining up with five state hospitals to start using Fah Talai Jone (Andrographis Paniculata) as a treatment option for early stage Covid-19 patients. Dr Amporn Benjaponpitak, director-general of the department, said on Wednesday that finding an alternative was necessary now that ther...

Dont leave migrant workers behind 1 published : 29 Dec 2020 at 04:00 1 In this Dec 20 file photo, 2,000 Myanmar migrant workers wait in front of a dormitory near the Thai Union Market in Samut Sakhon as health officials conduct Covid-19 tests. Arnun Chonmahatrakool As 2020 comes to a close, the coronavirus outbreak at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon has been a blessing in disguise. It is a stark reminder that the health of migrant workers...

Thailand Can’t Afford to Leave Myanmar Migrants Behind in COVID-19 Fight In this Dec. 20 file photo, 2,000 Myanmar migrant workers wait in front of a dormitory near the Thai Union Market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, as health officials conduct COVID-19 tests. / Arnun Chonmahatrakool / Bangkok Post 2.4k By Kavi Chongkittavorn 29 December 2020 As 2020 comes to a close, the coronavirus outbreak at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon has been a blessing in disguise. It is a stark reminder that the...

4 A shrimp fair is held at Kasetsart Universitys Bang Khen campus in Bangkok until Wednesday to help shrimp farmers in Suphan Buri, Chachoengsao and Ratchaburi provinces. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) The cabinet on Tuesday approved an 11.3-billion-baht budget to deal with the re-emerging of Covid-19. The amount will be spent on 10 projects, grouped into preventive measures (4.3 billion baht), treatment (7 billion) and support (27 million), according to deputy government sp...

The king and the cloud The story behind the Royal Rainmaking Project in Thailand Suvat Chirapant Suvat Chirapant In the drought-prone plateau of Isan in the northeastern region of Thailand, farming is the way of life for almost half of the population. Dependent on rainfall to sustain their crops, farmers would traditionally gather at the beginning of the wet season to shoot homemade Bang Fai rockets to the sky to ask the weather god to release the mon...

Covid case in Sukhothai, five schools closed 1 published : 28 Dec 2020 at 10:57 1 SUKHOTHAI: Five schools have been closed for a week after a Covid-19 case linked to Samut Sakhon was confirmed in this northern province on Sunday. The confirmed infection was a woman, one of three people who travelled together from Samut Sakhon, a Covid-19 hotspot, to their home village in tambon Ban Kluay in Muang district last week. They had no symptoms of the virus. The three repor...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) WHO Thailand Situation Report - 27 December 2020 [EN/TH] Format SPOTLIGHT • On the 27th of December 2020, 121 new cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were reported by the Ministry of Public Health. The total number of cases reported in Thailand is currently 6,141. • Of these cases, 68 % (4,161) have recovered, 1% (60) have died and 31 % (1,902) are still receiving treatment. No new deaths were reported. • The 121 laboratory-confirmed cases reported t...