Third phase of easing of lockdown starts on June 1

[webfact]

Third phase of easing of lockdown starts on June 1

By The Nation

 

 

The government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday (May 29) decided to implement the third phase of relaxation of lockdown measures , CCSA spokesman Taweesin Visanuyothin said.

 

The spokesman revealed the main practices that people will need to follow

 

▪︎ Shop operators will need to have temperature screening for both employees and customers while also reporting to health officials when any suspected case of infection is found.

 

▪︎ People need to log-in via ThaiChana platform before doing any activities.

 

The CCSA also discussed allowing high school students to study in schools with secured practices such as dividing students into small groups and attending school on alternate the days. But concerns were expressed about young students since they tend to touch each other in playtime.

 

National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general General Somsak Rungsita, on Friday revealed further relaxation in the third phase in activities and shops effective from June 1.

 

1. Department stores allowed to remain open until 9pm

 

2. Exhibition halls with total area less than 20,000 square metres square can open until 9pm.

 

3. Amulet shops can open but with social distancing.

 

4. Barber shops are allowed to dye and curl hair, two-hour service for each customer and refrain from having other customers waiting inside the shop.

 

5. Nurseries can open for employees to make food to distribute to children under care.

 

6. Beauty salons, beauty institutes, and tattoo shops can operate on any part of the skin but must follow good health practices such as wearing a mask and keeping clean.

 

7. Massage houses are allowed to open but they must refrain from opening sauna and steam rooms while prohibiting the touching or massaging of customers' faces.

 

8. Fitness centres can fully open but they must limit the number of customers in the area and refrain from opening sauna and steam rooms.

 

9. Team sport is now available for exercise and practice; no viewers are allowed in such areas and the number of players must not exceed 10.

 

10. Bowling houses, skating parks, and rollerblade parks are only allowed for exercise and practice.

 

11. Ballrooms allowed to open.

 

12. Pools and areas for water sport are allowed with operators limiting the number of customers.

 

13. Theatre and playhouses are allowed to open with only 200 people or less participating, but concert and music performances are still not allowed.

 

14. Zoos can open with limited customers in the area.

 

Somsak added that every shop and activities have to follow good health practices such as wearing masks, hand cleaning, social distancing, and temperature screening since all the new activities now available are considered as a medium to high risk.

 

Major Cineplex Group, the largest operator of cinemas in Thailand, is launching Covid-19 preventive measures at all its branches as it prepares to reopen for business.

 

[DrJack54]

"Ballrooms" ??

[DrTuner]

1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:

"Ballrooms" ??

Must be in the speakeasies that opened up during the prohibition.

[zeamonkey]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

People need to log-in via ThaiChana platform before doing any activities.

 

Okay fine, I'll stay at home then

[transam]

So can play football with no goalie...????

[Brunolem]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

But concerns were expressed about young students since they tend to touch each other in playtime

What exactly do they mean by that? 

[Brunolem]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

People need to log-in via ThaiChana platform before doing any activities.

Does this mean that we need to log in ThaiChana before posting on TV forum, which is by far our main activity? 

[cyril sneer]

alcohol in restaurants? 

[Thaiwrath]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

7. Massage houses are allowed to open but they must refrain from opening sauna and steam rooms while prohibiting the touching or massaging of customers' faces.

The proof reader probably told them to change the last word of the sentence to faces ! ????

[SidJames]

5 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

alcohol in restaurants? 

Good question.

Does anyone know the answer?

[JCP108]

"Shop operators will need to have temperature screening for both employees and customers while also reporting to health officials when any suspected case of infection is found."

 

So, if the heat index is 48C outside and I walk the kilometer from my apartment to the Big C and arrive with my temp about 1 degree elevated above normal (has happened twice), I will be reported to health officials? And, then what will happen? Will I be detained?

Edited May 29, 2020 by JCP108

[taxin]

Nothing about lifting travel restrictions ?
Phuket airport ?

[Boomer6969]

4 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

alcohol in restaurants? 

Indeed, I have a three nights booking, early next month, at Granmonte Winyard, which I'll cancel if I can't match their wines, with the pretty good food they serve in their Vincoto restaurant. Also any blue pipe and recycled thrash bag near my food will make me run.

 

But I am worried that eating out will remain on the back-burner for the coming two of tree years. I am afraid our Generals' idea of dining out is to guzzle bad whiskey and see the food only as a means of helping them to guzzle even more. Hence a total lack sympathy for the real gourmets.  

[Brunolem]

17 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

alcohol in restaurants? 

Not!

[Brunolem]

8 minutes ago, taxin said:

Phuket airport ?

Highly contaminated...about to be covered with a concrete sarcophagus...

[dcsw53]

The government have really got their fingers on the pulse of the nation. Thank god we finally have definitive news about amulet shops and ballrooms, the sleepless nights i ahve suffered over the past 6 weeks agonising about these.
Glad they ignored mentioning peripheral matters like, restaurants, beaches and bars, who on earth would be interested in these ? No doubt hoards of Chinese wanting to polish up their waltzing and tangoes will be stampeding to the airport as I speak.

[Happyman108]

23 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

alcohol in restaurants? 

Not now yet, think will be in next stage on 17 June....saw some bar posting that they will be opening on 17 June. ????

[Ventenio]

Will buses be running in June?  I mean buses that go across the country and do not originate in BKK or CM?

 

I hear "sex massage" shops are not open, but I see nothing on buses.

 

lol.  

[AlfHuy]

7. Massage houses are allowed to open but they must refrain from opening sauna and steam rooms while prohibiting the touching or massaging of customers' faces.

????????

[Mops59]

Limiting the number of people in pools and fitness. What are the guidelines? Where can I find this information?

[Brunolem]

12 minutes ago, Mops59 said:

Limiting the number of people in pools and fitness. What are the guidelines? Where can I find this information?

In the Buddha's teachings, but it's in Sanskrit...

[nausea]

Bars next I guess. Gonna be weird walking down Soi Cowboy with all the girls in masks, very kinky. Social distancing with ladyboys I definitely recommend, like their ability to put their fingers into into all your pockets during a 5 second encounter has to be admired.

[rott]

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

alcohol in restaurants? 

Calm down lad. 

[rott]

2 hours ago, Boomer6969 said:

Indeed, I have a three nights booking, early next month, at Granmonte Winyard, which I'll cancel if I can't match their wines, with the pretty good food they serve in their Vincoto restaurant. Also any blue pipe and recycled thrash bag near my food will make me run.

 

But I am worried that eating out will remain on the back-burner for the coming two of tree years. I am afraid our Generals' idea of dining out is to guzzle bad whiskey and see the food only as a means of helping them to guzzle even more. Hence a total lack sympathy for the real gourmets.  

Yes it really is appalling. 

[HashBrownHarry]

48 minutes ago, nausea said:

Bars next I guess. Gonna be weird walking down Soi Cowboy with all the girls in masks, very kinky. Social distancing with ladyboys I definitely recommend, like their ability to put their fingers into into all your pockets during a 5 second encounter has to be admired.

Bars / nightclubs and the likes will be the last thing to open, i'd hazard a guess at that being a good few months away.

[madmen]

3 hours ago, Brunolem said:

What exactly do they mean by that? 

Not what your thinking!

 

[Susco]

Today in Big C extra, the pharmacy was putting big yellow labels everywhere, VAT refund for tourists.

 

Which tourists LOL

 

[luk AJ]

16 hours ago, JCP108 said:

"Shop operators will need to have temperature screening for both employees and customers while also reporting to health officials when any suspected case of infection is found."

 

So, if the heat index is 48C outside and I walk the kilometer from my apartment to the Big C and arrive with my temp about 1 degree elevated above normal (has happened twice), I will be reported to health officials? And, then what will happen? Will I be detained?

you will be asked to sit down and wait for 5 minutes. 

 

[longball53098]

Bangkok hotels?  I need to stay a couple nights to visit BNH hospital for checkups.

[Langsuan Man]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

4. Barber shops are allowed to dye and curl hair, two-hour service for each customer

I guess cutting my hair is too dangerous for the barber