🇹🇭 Round-up of Thai News Reports from the English language media and translations of what they are saying in the Thai media. Just the news. No opinions.
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Statement by Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat.
Dear fellow citizens, today I am 'Clear' and 'Ready' to be the 30th Prime Minister of Thailand.
We have the same dreams, the same hopes, and we believe that the Thailand that we love can be better.
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Thai media are reporting as many as 32 dead at a mass shooting at a child care center in Nong Bua Lamphu Province. This is NOT confirmed. Photos are circulating of dead children in classrooms. The shooter is on the run. #กราดยิงหนองบัวลำภู
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Prime Minister in Waiting Pita Limjaroenrat answers a reporter’s about his thoughts of a potential return of Thaksin to
#Thailand
.
Video clip via
@KNDTheStandard
🔴 Video clip of police stopping motorcycles during evening rush hour traffic. Then as one motorcyclist passes, a policeman fires rubber bullets at him at close range. He then threatens the journalist. Watch full video:
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#ม็อบ20สิงหา
🇹🇭 Chaopraya Antique Cafe, a famous riverside restaurant in Nonthaburi, has turned the flood crisis into opportunity with “pork surfing”. Whenever a boat passes, the customers have to jump up onto theit seats. It has proved so popular that they are booked out in advance
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Thailand is giving support to India which is facing an acute oxygen shortage due to a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections. Last night, an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft transported four cryogenic oxygen containers from Bangkok to West Bengal.
📷
@IndiainThailand
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Entry rules for vaccinated arrivals has been relaxed. They no longer need to do a test on arrival or book a hotel. They are free to travel anywhere on arrival. They should only do a self-ATK test if they have symptoms. Due to start from 1 May.
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Thai Rath reporting that the alleged shooter in a mass shooting at a child day care centre has shot himself and his wife and child. He was a former police officer. More updates soon. #กราดยิงหนองบัวลำภู
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🇹🇭 Yesterday, there was a fight between two elephants in front of the visitor center at Khao Yai National Park. However it was a bit one-sided as only one of the elephants was real. The fake one ended up on his side with one of his tusks broken (📷 Ple Srichai)
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A 11-year old boy from Trang has been praised for his artistic skills that has helped bring in income for his family. Each flip flop takes him about 1-2 days to carve and costs 200-450 baht depending on the design
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Political cartoon by
@stephffart
: This is your captain speaking ... Starting from June 7, you will be able to register for access to lifeboats that we haven't received yet!
#COVID19
#โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้
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This was the spot where Fabio Polenki, a 48 year old photojournalist, was shot and killed by the Thai army during their crackdown on the Red Shirt protesters on 19th May 2010
#11
ปี19พฤษภา #ที่นี่มีคนตาย
#Bangkok
#Thailand
🔴 Crazy scenes tonight on Vibhavadi Rangsit Outbound Road as riot police on the back of pick-up trucks swoop in to make dozens of arrests. Watch the full video on Nation Online on Facebook #ม็อบ22สิงหา
#Bangkok
#Thailand
#WhatsHappeningInThailand
The heroes of the hour. Thank you for keeping us safe in such difficult and dangerous conditions (📷 RKU สมุทรปราการ) #โรงงานกิ่งแก้วไฟไหม้ #ไฟไหม้โรงงานพลาสติก
#SamutPrakan
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Chiang Mai has announced the closure of its last field hospital after doctors sent the final two patients home on Wednesday following their full recovery from Covid-19
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Nong Bua Lamphu Hospital is urgently requesting donations of blood for all groups. Those who are ready can donate at the blood donation room, 2nd floor, diagnostic building, Nong Bua Lamphu Hospital. #กราดยิงหนองบัวลําภู
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: William Heinecke has sent another open letter to the prime minister urging the government to scrap the RT-PCR test on Day 5 and remove the requirement to apply for a Thailand Pass. He says this will attract more foreign tourists
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: CCSA agrees to cancel the need for a RT-PCR test 72 hours before arriving in
#Thailand
for every group. Starts 1st April. Full details and confirmation soon.
🇹🇭 Arrest warrants for seven police officers have been issued in relation to the video clip that allegedly showed them torturing a drug suspect to death in an extortion attempt. Four are already in custody and three others are being sought
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#ผู้กํากับโจ้
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: CCTV shows the doctor waiting for about a minute at the zebra crossing before she finally decides to cross. Even then, not one single vehicle stops. She is hit by a bike just as she reaches the far side.
*The hashtag #หมอกระต่าย is now trending in
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Local media reporting that the body of Nida "Tangmo" Patcharaveerapong has been found floating in the middle of the Chao Phraya River. She had fallen into the river on Thursday night. Our condolences to family and friends RIP #เเตงโม
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🌏 Reuters: Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit beat Spanish teenager Adriana Cerezo Iglesias to win the gold medal for women's taekwondo in the 49kg category on Saturday
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🇹🇭 Bangkok Post: If the government hopes to entice wealthy expats and skilled professionals into making Thailand their second home, it must first improve the treatment of the millions of foreigners already living in the country
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Photo of Bangkok taken last night from the International Space Station. The black hole is Bangkachao, the Lungs of Bangkok.
📷
@Astro_Wakata
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A Chiang Mai resident won a lawsuit against the state for ignoring the air pollution problem. Chiang Mai Administrative Court delivered judgement to the National Environment Board to declare the area as a pollution control zone within 30 days
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Water Salute at Phuket International Airport on the arrival of Etihad flight EY430, which brought 25 tourists from Abu Dhabi. The plane arrived on Phuket island at 11.07am as part of the
#PhuketSandbox
program (📷
@workpointTODAY
)
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Activists have called for a protest rally on Sunday 18th July. This comes on the day when the hashtag #ประยุทธ์ออกไป is trending in
#Thailand
. It translates as “Prayut get out!” #ม็อบ18กรกฎา
🇹🇭 BANGKOK POST: Reckless driving by a 15-year-old has put an end to the life of a newly-graduated student engineer. He will be charged with careless driving leading to death, running a red light and driving without a licence | #เด็ก16ผ่าไฟแดงชนคนตาย
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Starting from Monday, passengers 18 and above arriving at airports in
#Thailand
must have been vaccinated or can show evidence of recently recovery from Covid. For passengers returning to countries that require testing before entry must have Covid insurance.
The night lights of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, on the Gulf of Thailand, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the southern coast of Vietnam
#ThaiNewsReports
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The firefighter that died in the factory fire has been named as nineteen year old Mr. Kornsit Raophan. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends (📷
@js100radio
)
#SamutPrakan
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🇹🇭 Foreigners being helped by a Thai man as they try to get past a shipping container put there by police in the main shopping district of
#Bangkok
. Police have blocked multiple roads in this area causing traffic chaos and inconvenience to pedestrians (📷
@SAHINOP
) #ม็อบ4กันยา
The Tourism Authority of Thailand has sent out a letter to people in the tourism industry saying that Phuket will open to vaccinated foreign tourists from 1 July. They do not need to do quarantine but they must stay in Phuket at least 7 days. Children only need to do rapid test.
📷 The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation posted on their Facebook page a rare view of wild elephants and bison grazing for food in the grasslands of Kui Buri National Park in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province
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Just over 1 million doses of AstraZeneca should arrive in Thailand tonight at 11:20pm. Thank you Japan for this donation 🙏
♦️Seniors, including foreigners, to get jabs donated by Japan
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🔴 BREAKING: A fully vaccinated tourist from UAE who came in on the
#PhuketSandbox
has tested positive for
#COVID19
. He was immediately transferred to a hospital for treatment. People in his group have been moved to an ALQ hotel where they will do 14-day quarantine
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: According to first reports, 13 people were killed and 41 injured in a pub fire in Sattahip shortly after midnight. It took more than two hours for firefighters to bring the fire under control.
📷 More info on the hashtag #ไฟไหม้ผับชลบุรี
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Good news. The Facebook page ‘CityLife ChiangMai’ has just posted to say that the Governor of Chiang Mai is offering free vaccination to all foreigners in June. It doesn’t say which vaccine but it will most likely be AstraZeneca which is being rolled out next month
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🇹🇭 The Prime Minister has thanked all medical personnel and staff who together helped vaccinate a new record high yesterday of 1,299,307 people
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🇹🇭 Full information on the three options for entering
#Thailand
from 1st November 2021 depending on whether you’re vaccinated or not or where you’re coming from. Also included is the full list of countries that you must be in for at least 21 consecutive days.
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: A Japanese woman tries to start a campaign on the Skytrain for people to take off their masks saying it’s too hot. Some Thai netizens comment that if she doesn’t like the rules here then she should go home
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This is the scene at Lotus Siluad in Samut Prakan since before sunrise of people queuing up to get a queue card for the Pfizer vaccine. This is available to people 60+, pregnant women, children 12-18 with underline conditions and obese people (📷 ที่นี่สมุทรปราการ)
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🌏 CNA: The Thai king's son has called for open discussion of the country's tough laws against insulting the royal family, a sensitive topic that has seen hundreds of people prosecuted in recent years |
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🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: After more than two years battling Covid-19 and with the vaccination rate now above 70%, Thai health authorities believe it is time to begin treating the virus as endemic instead of a health emergency
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🇹🇭 BANGKOK POST: Tham Luang cave survivor Duangphet Phromthep, the captain of the Wild Boars football team whose rescue from a flooded cave captured the attention of the world four years ago, has won a scholarship to study at a football academy in England
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Thailand to easy entry rules for fully vaccination tourists. Starting from 1st March, they can apply for a Thailand Pass that only requires one RT-PCR test on day one and they only need to book one night in a SHA++ hotel. Insurance also reduced to $20,000.
🇹🇭 Thai Enquirer: Thailand must learn to live with the Covid-19 virus and stop publicizing daily pandemic numbers by the end of April to boost public confidence and allow the country to get back to normal, a senior public health expert said on Monday
Video footage from Channel 3 showing teargas being fired on protesters but some overshoots and lands on the houses of private citizens. Other footage showing motorists getting caught up in the police action #ม็อบ7สิงหา
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Documents apparently showing a list of police officers to be favoured for promotions were presented in parliament, as opposition members questioned the involvement of the PM in the alleged “patronage” system during the ongoing censure debate #ตั๋วช้าง
🇹🇭 Thai News Reports: According to the government spokesperson, the CCSA agreed to re-open Test & Go registrations for Thailand Pass, for both Thais & foreigners, starting from 1st February. They can come from any country. It becomes official once published in the royal gazette.
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Last night, His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen granted an audience to some of the foreign leaders who were attending the
#APEC2022THAILAND
summit
🇺🇸US Senator
@TammyDuckworth
“We will be sending no less than 1.5 million doses of the Covid vaccine. In fact, the goal is 2.5 million, but the first shipment is 1.5. The strength of our bond is as important as ever.” Via
@USEmbassyBKK
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🔴 CCSA meeting has agreed to reduce quarantine period for vaccinated international travellers to 7 days from 1 October. For those who have not been vaccinated will quarantine for 10-14 days. This needs to be approved by the cabinet and published in the Royal Gazette
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🇹🇭 BANGKOK POST: Thailand will transform Songkran into a month-long global water festival next year to boost its "soft power" and attract international tourists. |
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The French embassy will provide free vaccines for french nationals in Thailand aged over 55. They have partnered with hospitals in eight areas in
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, including Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya, Khon Kaen, Koh Samui, Phuket, and Udon Thani.
🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: Hotels in Phuket and Krabi have stopped accepting credit cards from Russian tourists, after many of them find themselves unable to pay bills following the exclusion of Russia’s major banks from the SWIFT financial global messaging system
🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has announced that he will propose that the CCSA allow people in the capital to remove their face masks when outdoors, as daily new COVID-19 infections are decreasing and the economy is recovering
A petition calling for the resignation of Anutin, the Minister of Public Health, for his failure to resolve the
#COVID19
epidemic, has been signed by over 100,000 people so far. Anutin’s name in Thai #อนุทิน is also trending
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Today marks the first day that fully vaccinated visitors can come to
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without having to do any Covid testing or quarantine. 96 international flights are expected to land at Suvarnabhumi airport today with 16,868 passengers.
Thai soldiers have been busy this past week fighting against the
#COVID19
pandemic. They are pictured here spraying a forest with disinfectant along the Thai-Burmese border #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: A noodle shop in Na Kae District of Nakhon Phanom Province recently started a promotion to help ease the burden of local people. They are selling small bowls of noodles for only 1 baht each. Most people eat on average 4-5 bowls (📷 Newsmannkp)
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🔴 The Prime Minister has announced the re-opening of Thailand on 1st November starting with 10 low risk countries. Fully vaccinated tourists from these countries can enter without having to do quarantine but they must have RT-PCR test results. [THREAD]
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🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: Thailand will consider a recommendation from an airline tycoon to reduce the steps required for international entry, by doing away the second COVID-19 test, currently required on the fifth day after arrival
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Shopping malls in Pathumwan area found to have 144 cases so far. Most are in the group of Siam Discovery, Siam Center and Siam Paragon (129). Also 11 in Siam Square and 4 in Siamkit building. Meanwhile, public parks in Bangkok remain closed despite having no cases linked to them.
🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: The new government will consider extending tourist visa validities from 30 days to 90 days and the easing of immigration procedures, to make them more convenient for foreign tourists, said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin |
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: According to Channel 3 News, this is what the MountainB pub looked like before the fire that killed thirteen. The red outline is apparently the exit door which seems to be disguised as part of the wall. #ไฟไหม้ผับชลบุรี
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🔴 The CCSA has just confirmed that although new registrations for Test & Go remain suspended, travellers who have already been approved can enter
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according to the conditions and on the date they requested, until this order changes. There is NO cut off date.
🇹🇭 BANGKOK POST: Most outbound foreign travellers will be able to pass through automatic channels to quickly board planes at Suvarnabhumi airport, and relieve congestion, from next month. |
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Thai social media has been excited over the last few days that Oxford has made the word ‘pad thai’ a C2 term, meaning it's not a specific name anymore. It's a word that people around the world know, like tacos, lasagna, pizza
The government is developing a vaccination registration app especially for foreign residents, who will also be eligible for walk-in service as soon as it is available, a spokesman said on Saturday
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The Bangkok Governor has issued an order to relax restrictions which will allow customers in restaurants to sit and eat up until 11pm, swimming pools can open, and convenience stores can open for service during normal hours, from Monday 21st June 64 onwards.
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Thai netizens have reacted favourably to this picture posted by Chatree Sintateeyakorn on Facebook showing a clamped car parked in a disabled parking spot at the airport. The notice said they had checked CCTV and the person wasn’t disabled.
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🇹🇭 THAI PBS WORLD: The cabinet has agreed to temporarily stop the use of immigration arrival cards, known as “Tor Mor 6”, for foreigners entering or exiting Thailand by air, to facilitate immigration checks and reduce congestion at checkpoints
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Wearing masks will no longer be compulsory from 1st July onwards. Though there will be exceptions such as crowded or badly ventilated places. More details once it is published in the royal gazette.
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Concerns are increasing about a possible cluster event at Bang Sue Grand station as many people are driving several hours in the hope that they will get vaccinated before walk-ins are stopped at the end of the month (📷
@ittipat_tv
)
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🔴 Thailand Pass will be closed for all new Test and Go and Sandbox applications (except Phuket Sandbox), starting from midnight tonight until further notice. Here is the official announcement by the Consular Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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🇹🇭 First photos of Nong Gina, the toddler who went missing in Chiang Mai three days ago. She was found in a shelter about three kilometers from her home. The exact circumstances are not known yet. The hashtag #น้องจีน่า about the toddler is trending on Twitter
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If you are lucky enough to visit the Urban Development Planning Division at the Department of City Planning, you will be able to view this magnificent model of the city of Bangkok. For more information, call 02-354-1280. Source:
#Bangkok
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🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat said they will have a press conference at noon and then later at 5:30pm they will parade along the streets of Bangkok from the Democracy Monument to thank the Thai people.
@Pita_MFP
: “It is now clear that the Move
‼️BREAKING: New high on Friday: 9,276 cases & 72 deaths (278 cases from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm
#Thailand
#COVID19
5 July: 6,166 - 50 dead
6 July: 5,420 - 57 dead
7 July: 6,519 - 54 dead
8 July: 7,058 - 75 dead
9 July: 9,276 - 72 dead <— TODAY
Bangkok Post Infographic: The number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 per million of the population reported in the top-10 affected countries
#COVID19
#โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้
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🇹🇭 Following the meeting between the Minister of Tourism and Sport and the Bangkok Governor, comes the news that Bangkok could be ready to accept fully vaccinated foreign tourists without quarantine as early as 15th October
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#Bangkok
🇹🇭 THAI NEWS REPORTS: Bangkok Airways started weighing passengers before boarding over the weekend to help calculate the take-off weight. In a press release, they assured passengers that the information will be kept confidential.
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🇹🇭 After a teacher in Nakhon Ratchasima went to investigate why one of his bright students often missed online classes, he soon discovered that his house, and that of 41 neighbours, didn’t have any electricity. He had to walk 3km to charge his phone
🇹🇭 THE NATION: Thailand should remove all travel restrictions as soon as possible to help the country's tourism industry recover so that they can compete with other fully open countries, Minor International chairman William Heinecke said
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‼️BREAKING: New high on Saturday: 9,326 cases & 91 deaths (192 cases from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm
#Thailand
#COVID19
6 July: 5,420 - 57 dead
7 July: 6,519 - 54 dead
8 July: 7,058 - 75 dead
9 July: 9,276 - 72 dead
10 July: 9,326 - 91 dead <— TODAY