Forget Songkran splashing: Anutin
published : 29 Mar 2022 at 09:15
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Apinya Wipatayotin
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has urged business operators on Khao San Road to forget plans to hold water-splashing activities during Songkran.
He said patience and cooperation are needed to avoid the risk of another coronavirus outbreak.
Bangkok's communicable disease control committee is set to meet later today to consider allowing water-splashing celebrations on Khao San Road over the Thai New Year festival, as was requested by business operators in the area.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) had earlier banned water-splashing and other celebrations associated with the holiday as such activities could increase the risk of contracting Covid-19.
Businesses along Khao San Road, and other cities such as Chiang Mai, Phuket and Pattaya petitioned the government.
Mr Anutin said the ban on water-splashing is necessary to reduce the risk of contagion.
Public health officials had previously warned that new infections could reach 100,000 per day unless precautions are taken during the festival.
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Vocabulary
- banned: officially not allowed to do something - ถูกห้าม
- committee: a group of people who are chosen, usually by a larger group, to make decisions or to deal with a particular subject - คณะกรรมการ
- communicable disease: a disease that can spread from one person or animal to another - โรคที่สามารถติดต่อได้
- contagion: when something spreads or passes from person to person, so that more and more people are affected - การติดต่อ,การแพร่กระจาย
- cooperation: working together to achieve a result that will benefit all sides - ความร่วมมือ, การทำงานร่วมกัน
- patience: the ability to wait for a long time without becoming angry or upset - ความอดทน
- petition: to ask someone in authority to do something - ยื่นคำร้อง
- precautions: things done to protect people or things against possible harm or trouble - การป้องกันไว้ก่อน
- splash: to hit something noisily with a liquid - กระเด็นเปื้อน, สาดกระเด็น
