The Ministry of Public Health is urging people living in high-risk areas to work from home or stay put for two weeks to curtail the upward trajectory of Covid-19 cases that is expected to skyrocket after the Songkran Festival.
“We are expecting to see 483 cases per day in the next month, even though we have work from home measures in place. The number is still high so we are going to implement additional measures as the current condition warrants such measures,” Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, chief of the Department of Disease Control (DDC), said yesterday.
The government is reported to be imposing new measures to slow down the rise of new Covid-19 cases, which touched 1,335 yesterday. One of measures is to reduce mobility. However, Dr Opas did not say whether the ministry would propose the government impose a mandatory work-from-home order and further apply a targeted…
