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‘New Year’s will be happy times’: Thailand says lockdown unlikely despite Omicron

The prime minister insisted there would be no return to lockdown despite the arrival of the latest coronavirus mutation to the kingdom.

Junta chairmen-turned-PM Prayuth Chan-ocha said Tuesday that people should not worry about another lockdown after Thailand became the 47th country to detect the Omicron variant, which scientists worldwide are still trying to understand. 

Prayuth glossed over the science to say that everyone should enjoy the holidays so long as they join hands in taking preventive health measures.

“I hope that the New Year’s holidays will be happy times,” the Great Returner of Happiness said. “If there is no new spread of the virus, who would want a lockdown again? No one would.”

Well said, sir.

His cabinet pal in charge of public health shared his optimism. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul described officials as being…

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