Lockdown to end next week as infections drop

Loud and clear: Protesters shooting fireworks into the air as they call for Prayut’s resignation over the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Bangkok. — Reuters

THE Department of Disease Control (DDC) has announced that since Covid-19 cases have peaked and are now declining, lockdown measures will be lifted at the end of the month.

Infections had reached their highest point and would gradually reduce, DDC director-general Dr Opas Kankawinpong said in an online briefing yesterday.