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Schools shut amid Covid fears 12 published : 23 Dec 2020 at 04:35 12 More schools in Bangkok and Pathum Thani were ordered to close on Tuesday due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19. Twenty-nine schools in Pathum Thani were temporarily closed until Jan 3, after a couple working as seafood vendors in Wat Sa Bua market, Thanyaburi, were found to be infected. In Bangkok, Samsenwittayalai School said on Tuesday it would switch to online learning from today until Dec 30. Bunyaphon Phothiwa-thanat, the school's director, said its annual sports event -- which was pr...

Images courtesy of The Nation Thailand/Asian News Network. BANGKOK, Dec 12 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Air pollution in Bangkok's 38 districts hit dangerous levels on Saturday morning with PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter) readings coming in at 39 to 72 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3), the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's Air Quality and Noise Management Division reported. Thailand’s standard for safe levels of PM2.5 is 50 μg/m3, though the World Health Organisation sets it at 25 μg/m3. People, especially children and the elderly in a...