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35 parts of city 'exceed safe levels'
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 11/11/2024
» Some 35 areas in Bangkok began experiencing an unhealthy level of hazardous PM2.5 pollution Sunday morning, prompting City Hall to step up measures to curb the ultra-fine dust particles in the air.
Haze won't budge from Chiang Mai
Panumate Tanraksa, Published on 31/03/2024
» Sunday morning, the northern province of Chiang Mai was blanketed with a thick haze, with a pollution level over 20 times higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe.
Flu jabs for workers in travel, tourism
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/01/2024
» The Public Health Ministry is gearing up to provide an additional 200,000 doses of influenza vaccine to public transport and tourism industry workers in 31 provinces.
Masks advised in crowded places as Covid cases rise
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 25/11/2022
» The Ministry of Public Health is advising people to wear face masks in crowded places as the number of daily Covid-19 cases has risen by 10-20%.
Bangkok braces for sixth wave with big spike in infections feared
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 25/07/2022
» Bangkok is bracing for a sixth wave of Covid-19, as Covid cases in the capital bounce back to over 10,000 new cases per day, threatening the city's public health system.
Covid-19 to be endemic from July
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/03/2022
» Covid-19 will be labelled an endemic disease in Thailand starting in July, allowing people to return to a normal life, the Ministry of Public Health said yesterday.
Health product crackdown nets B1.6bn
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 21/10/2021
» The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD) have taken joint legal action against 255 suspects in cases involving the illegal distribution of medical and health products in the past year, worth over 1.6 billion baht in total.
A kitchen for those in need
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 05/07/2021
» The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit Bangkok hard with infections spreading in several crowded urban communities.
FTI proposes special red rubbish bags for face masks
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/05/2021
» As Covid-related household waste mounts, the Federation of Thai Industries has recommended providing special red bags to every household to make it simple to separate plastics and other non-biodegradable items which pose a threat to the environment.
Lockdown not needed: Anutin
News, Apinya Wipatayotin and Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 16/04/2021
» The government is confident it can overcome the current Covid-19 crisis without needing to impose a nationwide lockdown, Public Health Minister Anutin Chanvirakul said on Thursday.