"Disease Control Department"

From next month, the Communicable Disease Control Act will be used to control Covid-19 instead of the emergency decree, according to a Cabinet resolution on Tuesday.

All foreign nationals living in Thailand can get a Covid-19 vaccine if they want, Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said on Thursday (May 6).

THE LATEST dengue fever outbreak in Thailand is “the worst in five years” with more than 22,000 patients – 30 of whom have died – reported so far, Disease Control Department director-general Dr Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai said yesterday.

With particularly high temperatures predicted this summer, the Disease Control Department has warned the public about the danger of five food- and water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea.

THE Disease Control Department (DCD) has dismissed rumours that canned food made in Thailand is tainted with HIV.

The Disease Control Department (DCD) has found that religious sites are the main breeding grounds of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that can spread Zika. Its recent survey showed that almost 86 per cent of religious sites were found to have mosquito larvae.

The number of people getting ill around Chatree Gold Mine in Phichit’s Tap Khlo district has been reduced in the two years since the Disease Control Department officials focused on the area.