November 23 Anucha, spokesman of the Prime Minister’s Office of Thailand, said on the 23rd that the cabinet had passed a proposal on the same day to extend the emergency law again until January next year.
Anucha said at a press conference held after the cabinet meeting on the same day that the Thailand Coronavirus Management Center passed a proposal to extend the emergency law again on the 18th of this month and submitted it to the cabinet.
The Thai Cabinet announced on October 28 that it would extend the emergency law until November 30, while the cabinet meeting held on November 23 agreed to extend the decree again until January 15 next year from December 1 to further control the epidemic.
Anucha said that the extension is longer than the previous 30-day extension, mainly hoping to control the scale of people’s inter-provincial travel during the New Year to avoid a second wave of the epidemic.
This is the eighth time that the Thai government has extended the emergency law since March 26 this year.
