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Thai tourism industry demands Covid restrictions to be lifted, PM urges caution

The Thai Prayut Chan-o-cha is calling on all 77 provincial governments to do everything they can to reduce the spread of the latest Covid surge in Thailand. There has been more than 18,000 new infections over the past 2 days. Today, Thailand logged 18,953 official new cases with numerous additional un-official cases which have been registered from ATK tests. So there’s an extra 8,814 “probable cases”.

There were 30 Covid-related deaths also registered in the past 24 hours. 183 of today’s infections were from overseas.

The PM says governors will… “need to speed up campaigns deterring the spread of Covid-19 by cooperating with all sectors”.

He’s also asking everyone in Thailand to continue complying with the country’sCovid-19 preventive measures and “closely monitor any outbreaks”.

As the number of new infections rack up, mostly fuelled by the Omicron variant,…

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