Covid-19 outbreak continues to weigh on Thailand’s economic growth

BANGKOK, July 31 (Xinhua): Thailand’s central bank has announced that the country’s economy in June continued to be impacted by the latest Covid-19 outbreak, the most deadly wave since the pandemic began.

In June, the country’s private consumption remained weak, while the tourism sector has yet to recover, but exports, which jumped 46.1 percent year on year, had supported the economy along with public spending, the Bank of Thailand said in a statement.

The country’s headline inflation in June declined from May as the low base effect from energy prices gradually abated while core inflation was stable. The labor market remained vulnerable because of the third wave of the outbreak that started in early April.

The central bank said manufacturing production declined slightly from the previous month as…