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The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has issued guidelines on how people can protect themselves against becoming infected with monkeypox.

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) has set up a Public Health Emergency Centre to monitor the global spread of monkeypox and tighten monitoring at its border. The disease has so far spread to 15 countries, with more than 100 confirmed cases.

Thailand should have eradicated malaria by 2024, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) announced ahead of World Malaria Day, which will be marked on Monday.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) will ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to further ease up on the Test & Go scheme for foreign arrivals by changing the mandatory RT-PCR test upon arrival to an ATK test.

Daily Covid-19 infections will double to around 50,000 cases after the Songkran holiday (April 13-15), the Department of Disease Control (DDC) estimates.

The death of 12-year-old boy after getting his first shot of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine last month was not caused by the vaccine itself, the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

Two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine can boost the recipient’s immunity against the virus by 65 per cent and reduce the chance of developing severe symptoms or death by 88 per cent, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said on Monday.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is continuing to follow the Omicron situation closely after the first death related to the new Covid-19 variant was reported in the United Kingdom, DDC Epidemiology Bureau chief Dr Jakrat Phittayawong-anon said on Tuesday.

The 252 tourists from southern African countries, who entered Thailand between November 27 and 30, are fully vaccinated and are at low risk of transmitting the Omicron variant, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said on Thursday.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has predicted three scenarios of Covid-19 situation in Thailand after the country will reopen 17 tourist provinces to vaccinated foreign visitors from November 1 onward.

The latest batch of 1,538,550 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Thailand on October 27, Department of Disease Control (DDC) director-general Dr Opas Karnkawinpong said on Thursday.

A meeting of the National Communicable Disease Committee on Thursday approved the reduction of quarantine requirement for foreign visitors from 14 days to 7, 10 or 14 days depending on the country and other conditions, said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control (DDC).