The government is likely to lift the mask rule in certain public places and allow night entertainment venues to operate until 2am soon, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration's (CCSA) operations centre.

The centre's chief said any extension to night entertainment venues' opening hours will depend on the evaluation of infection figures after the rules were eased last week, adding an evaluation will take place every 10 days.

As the rules were first eased on June 1, any more changes to them will only happen after authorities meet on Friday to discuss further extensions to night entertainment venues' opening hours, he said.

"Given the current situation of Covid-19 and good public compliance [to previously approved easing of Covid-19 restrictions], there is a strong possibility more restrictions will be removed," the chief said.

In response to Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt's call for the CCSA to end the mask rule in Bangkok, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday said the CCSA is now working to ease more Covid-19 restrictions.

At a meeting on Monday, Mr Chadchart asked whether it is time to allow people to stop wearing masks in open public spaces.

An official from the BMA's medical department pointed out the need to wait until Bangkok has less than 500 new infections of Covid-19 per day.

Currently, the city records between 1,400 and 1,500 new Covid-19 cases a day.