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Phuket bars to stay closed for July 1 sandbox

Bars, pubs, and other “entertainment venues” throughout Phuket will remain closed when the province opens for its July 1 reopening, Patong Mayor Chalermsak Maneesri said today. Chalermsak says the entertainment venues will remain closed as a meeting with Phuket officials cited a covid cluster from such an establishment.

He further told Thai media today that the Phuket Governor and the TAT Governor agree on this consensus. His blunt assessment of the Covid situation in Patong is that:

The economic situation in Patong is very bad right now.”

On the topic of the Phuket sandbox, he says that officials have knocked on people’s doors and “encouraged them to register and get vaccinated in order to complete vaccinations of 70% of the people on the island. I have gone to facilitate the vaccination at Jungceylon shopping mall every day”.

The mayor adds that officials will be…

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