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Songkran rules in works

Songkran rules in works

Water fights pose high risk of infection

People pour blessed water into a vessel as a way to make merit at the Kwan Riam market along Saen Saep canal in Min Buri district, Bangkok, during the Songkran festival in April last year.(Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The government will meet on Friday to deliberate ways to curb the spread of Covid-19 during the Songkran holiday period, which includes a proposed ban on water-splashing.

The ban was among ideas proposed by the Public Health Ministry on Thursday at a meeting chaired by the secretary-general of the National Security Council and chief of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) operations centre, Gen Supoj Malaniyom.

CCSA will be asked to allow Songkran celebrations…

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