The Latest Breaking News from Opas Karnkawinpong

Cabinet approves Opas as next health permanent secretary

The cabinet has approved the appointment of the director-general of Department of Disease Control, Opas Karnkawinpong, as next permanent secretary for public health.

Bangkok Post · Jul 12, 2022

Ministry to propose Covid isolation be reduced to 5 days

The Public Health Ministry will recommend that Covid-19 patients be allowed out after five days of quarantine.

Bangkok Post · Jul 5, 2022

Health system prepares for rising Covid cases

Health and administrative officials nationwide have been told to prepare for rising numbers of Covid-19 cases.

Bangkok Post · Jul 5, 2022

Monkeypox screening begins at Suvarnabhumi

The international disease control and quarantine office at Suvarnabhumi airport has begun to screen travellers from abroad for monkeypox, using the Thailand Pass system, Department of Disease Control (DDC) chief Opas Karnkawinpong said.

Bangkok Post · May 25, 2022

New centre to monitor monkeypox

The Public Health Ministry has set up an emergency operations centre to monitor the spread of the monkeypox virus, which has caused over 100 confirmed cases in at least 12 countries to date.

Bangkok Post · May 22, 2022

Monkeypox monitoring centre formed

As monkeypox spreads around the world, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has set up a Public Health Crisis Command Centre to monitor the situation worldwide and set short-, mid- and long-term response strategies.

Bangkok Post · May 22, 2022

Child safety seat price-fixing probed

The Commerce Ministry has ordered an investigation into complaints that some vendors have marked up prices of child booster seats for cars following an announcement of a new regulation that will make them mandatory.

Bangkok Post · May 12, 2022

Covid alert level lowered after new cases drop

The Public Health Ministry moved the Covid-19 alert down one level on Monday as the country remains on course to declare the coronavirus an endemic disease.

Bangkok Post · May 9, 2022

End nigh for entry hurdles

The government will consider whether to scrap antigen testing and Thailand Pass registration requirements for foreign visitors after the Test & Go entry scheme and RT-PCR tests upon arrival are cancelled next month.

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

No sign yet of sub-variants

Two new Omicron sub-variants, BA.4 and BA.5, still have not been detected in Thailand, Ramathibodi Hospital's Centre for Medical Genomics (CMG) says.

Bangkok Post · Apr 13, 2022