
The ministry has collaborated with PTT to produce 1 million bottles of hand sanitisers to distribute in Bangkok and its vicinities, he said.
Ethyl alcohol factories will also help provide 95 per cent of the liquid to produce hand sanitisers so that the market has 1 million litres – an amount sufficient for production.
Sontirat said pre-orders of ethyl alcohol reached 36 million litres and he believed it would prevent a shortage of hand sanitisers.