Health
Thailand’s ministry of Public Health on food alert
Thailand’s ministries of Public Health and Natural Resources and Environment will closely monitor and inspect food imported from Japan and Thailand’s air quality to check radiation levels but downplayed any direct and immediate threat to the country following explosions in Japanese nuclear power plants in Fukushima.
Thailand’s ministries of Public Health and Natural Resources and Environment will closely monitor and inspect food imported from Japan and Thailand’s air quality to check radiation levels but downplayed any direct and immediate threat to the country following explosions in Japanese nuclear power plants in Fukushima.
The crisis at the Fukushima No 1 plant has now spread to four of its six reactors following Friday’s quake and tsunami which knocked out the plant’s cooling systems. The Japanese government said that radiation levels near a quake-hit nuclear plant are now harmful to human health after two explosions and a fire at the crippled facility today.
Permanent Secretary for Public Health Paijit Varachit urged the Thai public not to be alarmed, as the ministry has prepared pre-cautionary measures to assure that Thais will remain safe from any possible effects of the nuclear crisis in Japan and to remain confident regarding the Japanese government, considered one of the countries with effective safety measures to protect the health of its public.
He said that there is a possibility that radiation from Japan could be carried to Thailand by radiation-exposed food products and the atmosphere.
via Ministry of Public Health on high alert screen food imports from Japan.
The Office of Atoms for Peace which oversees the use of nuclear technology in the country has played down fears radioactive leakage at a nuclear power plant in Japan may spread to Thailand.
“We have closely monitored the situation of the nuclear power plant explosion in Japan since Saturday,” OAP secretary-general Chaiwat Toskulkao said yesterday.
“From the wind direction, radioactive dust has been swept towards the northeastern direction. The dust, if there is any, will not reach Thailand. So I would say we are quite safe.”
Thailand is more than 4,300 kilometres from Japan.
Thailand has eight radioactive monitoring stations. None has detected any radiation, said Siriratana Biramontri, director of Bureau of Technical Support for Nuclear Safety.
Companies
Thai Firm to produce 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine
Thai Firm Siam Bioscience Joins with AstraZeneca to Make COVID-19 Vaccine for Southeast Asia and says it will produce 200 million doses of its anti-coronavirus vaccine in Thailand next year.
Health
The Latest on Covid-19 in Southeast Asia
Even in Southeast Asia, which has fared comparatively well in minimizing deaths, economies have either ground to a halt or deeply contracted due to the region’s reliance on exports and tourism.

It would be an understatement to describe 2020 as a challenging year. Coronavirus swept the globe and over 1.6 million people have died from the disease.
(more…)Health
Covid-19 is not the biggest health crisis in Thailand
For many years, Thailand has earned notoriety in the area of road fatalities: Thailand’s roads are the deadliest in Southeast Asia and among the worst in the world, according to the World Health Organisation

If we go by the number of deaths, the coronavirus is not the country’s biggest health public health problem. Road accidents are.
(more…)-
Economics6 days ago
96% of Foreign Investors still confident in Thailand says BOI
-
Investment1 week ago
Thailand BOI new measures to boost post-Covid-19 investment
-
Companies1 week ago
Thai Firm to produce 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine
-
Investment3 days ago
Thailand Saw $1.7 billion Applications in Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) Investments in 2020, BOI Says