People queue to pour scented water on Buddha statues at Wat Pho in Bangkok during the splashing-free Songkran festival last year. (Photo: Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
Songkran celebrations will be allowed next month but drinking alcohol at events, foam parties, water splashing and powder smearing will be prohibited.
The decision was made at Friday’s meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha.
Gen Prayut instructed all agencies to closely monitor the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus BA.2.2 subvariant, to follow up Covid-19 testing, the efficiency of vaccines in reducing the severity of the disease and responses to medication.
He said Covid-19 will not be declared endemic at this time. A supporting plan must be prepared in advance, he said.
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