Routes to recovery
published : 15 Mar 2021 at 06:48
182 A sample of a Covid-19 vaccine passport produced by the Public Health Ministry, meant to facilitate international travel.
The Tourism and Sports Ministry announced a more relaxed mandatory quarantine scheme last week called Area Quarantine , which is scheduled to be ready on April 1.
Under the plan, vaccinated tourists are required to quarantine for only seven days instead of two weeks within hotel areas. After one week, they can travel to any province.
Those who have not been inoculated must spend 10 days in quarantine, but they are entitled to roam around restricted areas within the property.
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This year s aggregate net profit of commercial banks registered in Thailand is estimated at 144 billion baht, a nine-year low, attributed mainly to the pandemic impact, says Kasikorn Research (K-Research).
The estimate uses the Thai Financial Reporting Standards 9 (TFRS 9).
The combined net profit of registered commercial banks was 254 billion baht in 2019, before TFRS 9 came into effect, according to K-Research.
It was reported in October that both the third-quarter and nine-month net profit of major SET-listed financial institutions saw a double-digit decline on a year-on-year basis as banks beefed up loan provisions to cushion against higher bad debt prospects.
For instance, Kasikornbank (KBank), the country s largest commercial lender by total assets, and its subsidiaries reported third-quarter net profit of 6.67 billion baht, down 32.9% year-on-year.