Coronavirus: Thailand to declare one-month emergency on March 26: PM Prayuth Chan-ocha

Thailand will likely be in an emergency mode from March 26 for a month to handle the coronavirus outbreak, Top Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha informed a information convention on Tuesday.

The emergency decree will imply the high minister may have the chief energy to declare additional measures to comprise the virus, together with giving further authority to officers and permitting the putting in place of checkpoints to cut back other folks actions, Prayuth mentioned.

He mentioned main points of the measures will likely be introduced later.

Thailand reported 3 deaths and 106 new coronavirus instances on Tuesday. The rustic now has 827 instances and 4 fatalities because the outbreak started.

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