Thailand: Prime minister working from home until January 14
With authorities expecting a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections due to New Year’s festivities and travels, employers in Thailand are being urged to implement a Work from Home model for their workers.
Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha. (Photo: NNT/VNA)
Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - Withauthorities expecting a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections due to NewYear’s festivities and travels, employers in Thailand are being urged to implementa Work from Home model for their workers.
Civil servants are working from home for two weeks, while the prime ministerhimself is also working from home until January 14 and will be participating inthis week’s Cabinet meeting remotely.
Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha has orderedrelevant agencies to monitor the situation of Omicron variant infections, withan aim of preventing transmission clusters. Lessons are being taken from therecent Omicron cluster in Kalasin and authorities are working to limittransmissions as much as they can.
The prime minister is also urging people who suspectthey may be infected with COVID-19 to refrain from partaking in activities andavoid contact with others, as well as to quickly self-isolate and enter the treatmentprocess.
Earlier, the prime minister issued an urgent lettertelling civil servants to work from home from January 1 to 14 as part of aneffort to raise the disease prevention intensity at public offices.
Gen. Prayut himself is also working from home untilJanuary 14. He will reportedly attend the Cabinet meeting on January 4 and theCenter for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) full meeting – expected on January7 – by means of video conference from his residence inside the 1st InfantryRegiment in Bangkok.
Gen. Supoj Malaniyom, the director of the CCSA’soperations center, said a meeting of the operations center will be held on January5, after which findings and proposals from the meeting will be presented at theCCSA full meeting later in the week./.
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Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha. (Photo: NNT/VNA) 
