The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday praised Thailand’s unity as being the key to success in surviving the Covid-19 pandemic at its peak early this year, while Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul vowed the war against the new coronavirus was not yet over.
The unity of all public and social sectors in Thailand and its intensive and extensive health and social measures enabled the country to succeed in the fight to contain the spread of Covid-19, said WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday.
He was speaking at an online address to a national health assembly meeting held by the National Health Commission Office (NHCO).
Thailand’s health assembly is a powerful example of how important decisions could be made at the national level with public participation being ensured and public trust generated, the WHO chief said.
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