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Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has said that the country will give financial support to 40 million people who have lost their income due to impacts of COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures.

A committee under the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on January 4 approved the extension of the Emergency Decree nationwide until the end of February.

Indonesia and the Philippines each logged more than 3,000 COVID-19 infections on September 28.

Thailand is considering ending the night curfew in the fourth phase of the easing of lockdown measures, a senior national security official said.

The Government of Thailand is planning to lift all business and activity lockdowns on July 1 after making preparations for the reopening in June.

Thailand has extended a ban on international passenger flights again for another month until June 30, in a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19.

Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has decided to extend the Emergency Decree for another month, once it expires on April 30.

The private sector of Thailand will ask the Thai government to speed up introducing the same practices for logistics procedures nationwide that now exist in a patchwork applied differently across various provinces.

Jakarta will intensify measures to restrict people’s movements after being granted permission by the Indonesian government to implement large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to slow the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Thailand’s economy is projected to reduce by 5.3 percent in 2020 due to impact of the COVID-19, said the Bank of Thailand (BoT) on March 25.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on March 25 said that Thailand will be under an emergency decree from March 26 until the end of April to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.

The current emergency decree in Thailand’s three southernmost border provinces will be extended for three more months, from March 20 to June 19, said Secretary General of the Thai National Security Council Gen Somsak Rungsita.

The government's emergency situation committee on August 23 agreed to extend the enforcement of an emergency decree on public administration in the deep South for another three months, said a senior security official.