Cabinet okays measures worth B164bn
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Funding for health projects in pipeline
published : 2 Jun 2021 at 06:22
4 A sign for the Rao Chana (We Win) scheme is seen at a food stall in the Silom area of Bangkok. (Photo by Somchai Poomlard)
The cabinet on Tuesday approved a combined 164 billion baht worth of fresh measures to help alleviate the hardships of people affected by the pandemic as well as to fund public health projects.
Government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said the budget for the measures comes from the 1-trillion-baht loan under the decree issued last year to ease the impact of the Covid-19 outbreaks.
The government has pinned its hopes on fresh measures to help alleviate hardships of people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and to boost domestic consumption worth a combined total of 140 billion baht. The measures are scheduled to go before the cabinet today.
CentralwOrld shopping centre has announced the opening of a new COVID-19 vaccination centre, in the ‘centralwOrld LIVE’ zone, on the eighth level of the Bangkok mall. The new location is the eighth of 23 inoculation points to be launched at Central shopping centres across the country.
The region’s poor and working classes are bearing the brunt of economic fallout from the latest wave of COVID-19. Long-term social protection schemes could help.
Govt must spend this B500bn wisely
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24 Parliament will be in session starting today mainly to consider the 2022 fiscal budget. An emergency decree authorising new borrowing for relief packages will be submitted for approval. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)
It is now official. An emergency decree authorising the Ministry of Finance to borrow money to solve the economic and social problems arising from the Covid-19 outbreak was published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday. However, the authorised amount is 500 billion baht, not 700 billion baht as we had heard from various sources. The spending is divided into three categories: 30 billion baht for healthcare management; 300 billion baht for economic relief programmes, and 170 billion baht for economic recovery projects.