The Covid-19 operations chief is opposed to allowing water splashing during the Songkran festival and wants only activities that are compatible with use of face masks.
On Tuesday, Culture Minister Itthiphol Kunplome said it was possble the government would allow water splashing as the number of daily new Covid-19 cases was declining.
However, Gen Natthapon Nakpanich, secretary-general of the National Security Council and operations chief of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Wednesday he was against it.
His committee was of the view that activities in which participants would take off face masks could pose the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
Such activities included splashing water and…
