The Food and Drug Administration of Thailand announced today that it has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 in children aged five to eleven years. The Comirnaty vaccine is the first to be approved in Thailand for this age group and will be administered in two doses of 10 micrograms with a […]
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Thailand: Possible reinstatement of mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors due to Omicron
The Thai Health Minister said today that he would propose that the mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors be reinstated, due to concerns about the spread of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus. The proposal would abolish the quarantine exemption for fully vaccinated visitors and provide that travelers would be isolated in hotels, although they […]
Thailand: The first case of the Omicron variant has been confirmed
A health official in Thailand announced today that the first case of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been confirmed; he is a US citizen who traveled to the country of Southeast Asia on November 29 from Spain, where he lived for the last year. Thailand thus became the 47th country where the new variant […]
Thailand: The economy shrank in the third quarter
The Thai economy shrank in the third quarter from a year earlier, as consumption fell sharply due to pandemic mitigation measures in response to the recent domestic rise in cases. GDP decreased by 0.3% compared to the previous year, compared to the increase of 7.6% in the previous quarter and 6.4% in the third quarter […]
The European Union no longer considers Morocco to be a tax haven
Morocco has been removed from the list of non-cooperative countries and territories for tax purposes of the European Union, which has been updated and now includes the Commonwealth of Dominica. The African country appeared in an annex (the ‘gray’ list) along with other “pernicious tax regimes” waiting for modify or rectify this situation. Namibia and […]
‘We have it totally under control’
“We have it completely beneath management,” Trump informed “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernen in an interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It’s one individual coming in from China. We have it beneath management. It’s going to be simply advantageous.” The CDC on Tuesday mentioned a Snohomish County, Washington state, resident who […]