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The Royal Gazette website on Tuesday published an emergency decree allowing the Ministry of Finance to borrow money to tackle social and economic problems caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the public debt management plan proposed by the Finance Ministry for fiscal year 2021 (October 2021 to September 2021), Government Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said.

Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana plans to issue an emergency decree of his own to try and save the economy from freefall.

The government collected Bt2.56 trillion in net revenue in fiscal 2019 ending in September, a 1-per-cent and Bt26.12-billion increase over the previous year, the director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office announced on Thursday (October 24). 

PEOPLE in Nakhon Ratchasima can now borrow useful devices from many state medical facilities, as they undergo physical rehabilitation or cope with being housebound.