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PM calls meeting to map out further aid
published : 28 Jun 2021 at 04:30 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will meet the government s economic team on Monday to help those affected by the latest measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. (Bangkok Post photo)
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha called an urgent meeting of the government s economic team on Monday to map out relief measures for those affected by the latest measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.
Government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said the meeting will discuss financial relief for businesses and individuals after construction camps were ordered closed and some businesses ordered to shut for 30 days over the weekend.
3 A sign is displayed in front of a shop participating in the Khon La Khrueng (half-half) co-payment scheme at Chatuchak weekend market. Pornprom Satrabhaya
The Finance Ministry is willing to expand eligibility for phase 3 of the Khon La Khrueng co-payment scheme beyond the original limit of 31 million people, says director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office Kulaya Tantitemit.
Phase 3 of the scheme opened registration on Monday, when more than 20 million people signed up as of 2pm. The scheme is part of the government s relief measures to help those affected by the pandemic.
Registration is open from 6am to 10pm and is programmed to close once the number of participants reaches 31 million.
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.
Senators take aim at vaccine rollout plan
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published : 25 May 2021 at 20:24
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Senators on Tuesday called on the government to improve its vaccine distribution plan as the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating.
Senate Speaker Pornpetch Wichitcholchai allowed members to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic and most zeroed in on the government’s vaccine rollout and relief measures.
Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn said migrant workers and employees in the industrial sector should be given priority for jabs after factories in several provinces had been hit by repeat clusters of infections.
He said an initial plan to wait until August before vaccinating migrant workers would be too late and said the private sector could speed up the programme by procuring its own quota of vaccines via the government and distributing them to those most in need.