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Plans drawn up for endemic Covid-19
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 22/09/2022
» Thailand's National Communicable Disease Committee (NCDC) on Wednesday approved an action plan to manage Covid-19 that will become an endemic disease under surveillance next month.
Highly contagious new variant detected
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 14/09/2022
» The Centre for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi Hospital has confirmed a case of a highly contagious, third generation of Covid-19.
DMS defends use of favipiravir pills
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/09/2022
» The Department of Medical Services (DMS) on Monday defended the effectiveness of favipiravir in treating Covid-19 patients against an international study claiming the antiviral drug lacked efficacy in treatments.
Health ministry defends new Covid 5+5 policy
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 23/08/2022
» The Ministry of Public Health on Monday defended a reduction of quarantine days from seven to five for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients, saying it was based on academic data and reviewed by relevant parties.
Isolation measures to ease further
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/08/2022
» The Department of Health Service Support will propose the Public Health Ministry considers ending hospitel and hotel isolation next month in response to the improving Covid-19 situation.
'No let-up' after Covid is downgraded: DDC
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/08/2022
» Monitoring of coronavirus mutations will remain unchanged when the disease is downgraded to "communicable under surveillance" status from Oct 1, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said on Tuesday.
Covid-19 threat to be downgraded
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/08/2022
» The National Communicable Disease Committee (NCDC) has decided to downgrade Covid-19 from a "dangerous communicable disease" to a "communicable disease under surveillance" from October as part of the country's plan to enter a normal endemic period.
5 cases of resistant strain found
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/08/2022
» There are now five confirmed infections in Thailand of the antibody-resistant sub-variant of Covid-19, BA.2.75, and health authorities say they are closely watching its development.
BA.5 subvariant tuned to evade immunity: study
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/07/2022
» The Department of Medical Sciences' latest study has revealed the BA.5 Omicron subvariant of Covid-19 has a very high capacity to evade immunity, leading to lower effectiveness of vaccines even with a third booster shot.
BA.2.75 makes debut in kingdom
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 21/07/2022
» Thailand has detected its first known case of the latest Omicron sub-variant, BA.2.75, initially detected in India in June and now present in at least 15 countries, health authorities confirmed on Wednesday.