Shoppers walking though a clothing market in Bangkok. Thailand's economy contracted at a 12.2% annual rate in the April-June quarter, its sharpest downturn since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. - AP
BANGKOK, Aug 17 (Bernama): Eighty-four days without local infection of Covid-19 does not guarantee that Thailand is free of the disease, reported Thai News Agency (TNA) quoting the director-general of the Disease Control Department, Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai.
The period without local infection had nothing to do with the risks of the second spread that came from business lockdown easing and the arrivals of Thai and foreign people including migrant workers, he said
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