PM leads from the front with cloth face mask for Cabinet meeting
Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday morning (March 17) arrived at Administrative Building 1 of Government House to preside over a Cabinet meeting, wearing a fabric face mask with the same Thai traditional pattern as his shirt, signalling the mask was made from cloth left over after making the shirt.
Prayut and Cabinet members as well as followers must go through the screening checkpoint where medical staff provide thermal scanning before letting them into the 501 meeting room.
As of 11am on March 17, Thailand has confirmed 177 Covid-19 cases. Of these, 41 have been discharged after recovering, 135 are under medical care, and one person has died.
