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The Public Health Ministry will not issue a school shutdown order if Covid-19 infections are found in only a few students, Department of Health deputy director-general Dr Sarawut Boonsuk said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered an immediate 14-day shutdown of entertainment venues or restaurants where a Covid-19 infection is found, government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri confirmed on Thursday.

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 416,000 Americans and recently pulled the U.S. economic recovery into reverse. Some states have shut down again to get a handle on surging caseloads. And critics have blamed those states' governors, typically Democrats, for job losses.

The Charawi Association for the Conservation of Thai Massage on Wednesday handed over a letter at Government House addressed to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is also chairman of the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, urging the government to help spa and massage parlour entrepreneurs who have been forced to shut down their businesses to prevent the new wave of Covid-19 from spreading.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is rapidly approaching a Monday deadline to avert a government shutdown, but aides and U.S. lawmakers appear flummoxed about his strategy, left to interpret musings from his Twitter feed while he golfs and otherwise remains out of public view.

Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited the spread of the contagion.

TOKYO - A 47.6-kilometer (29.5 miles) section of JR Hokkaido's Sassho Line that had been slated for permanent closure due to diminished passenger numbers has seen its end come early due to the coronavirus pandemic. The last run on the section between Hokkaido Iryo Daigaku Station and Shintotsukawa Station, both in central Hokkaido, had originally been scheduled for the Golden Week holiday period, which is from late April to early May, but the final train rolled on Friday.

Three sub-districts in Pattani’s Thung Yang Daeng district were locked down after five Covid-19 cases were discovered, taking the total number of infected people to 82, Pattani Governor Kraisorn Wisitwong said today (April 14).

Twenty-four hours after announcing shops would be allowed to reopen despite the government lockdown, Nonthaburi governor Sujin Chaichumsak made rapid a U-turn on Tuesday (April 14), when he ordered the shops to remain shut.

Nonthaburi Governor Sujin Chaichumsak announced on Monday (April 13) that the province would ease its shutdown order for some establishments that are necessary for daily life.

Pattaya city will shut down from 2pm on Thursday (April 9), Chonburi Governor Pakarathorn Thienchai announced on Wednesday (April 8) following advice from the Chonburi Communicable Disease Control Committee.

Trat has prohibited its people from entering and leaving the province from Saturday (April 4).