Thailand’s top Covid panel is set to consider a partial lockdown of the nation’s worst virus-hit regions, including the capital Bangkok, to quell the deadliest wave of infections.
The national task force will meet on Friday to decide on Health Ministry’s proposals for stay-at-home orders and a ban on travel between provinces, Permanent Secretary of Public Health Kiattiphum Wongrajit told reporters on Thursday. While essential businesses and services such as food markets and hospitals may be allowed to operate, people will be barred from traveling for non-essential activities, he said.
The push for tighter containment measures follows a 10-fold surge in infections since early April that threatened to derail Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha’s pledge to fully reopen the country in about 100 days. Health experts had called for strict containment measures, saying the…
