Thailand’s PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is giving individual provinces the power to set curfews and other measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. PM Prayut’s Facebook page also details new guidelines for the management of hospital beds to make sure that all who are infected with the virus have access to treatment, and screening to determine whether they should be admitted to a general hospital, a field hospital, or a hospitel. The measures also give guidelines for the recruitment of volunteers to help with the influx of hotline calls.
Authorities are also mulling whether to decrease the required period of quarantine time inside a hospital, for asymptomatic cases, from 14 to 10 days, with the remaining 4 days to be in at-home isolation. Bangkok is seeing new restrictions as many entertainment venues including theme parks, zoos, waterparks, game arcades, public swimming pools,…
