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Though Chiang Mai’s field hospital has shut its doors after discharging its last two patients, it will be ready to kick into action if there is an emergency.

Chiang Mai province will launch its mass vaccination programme against Covid-19 on June 7, with priority given to elders and people with underlying health problems.

Vaccination booking is opening in Chiang Mai this week ahead of the nationwide jab rollout from next Monday (June 7).

The Chiang Mai Communicable Disease committee on Friday announced that people travelling from provinces in the red zone -- highest control area based on number of Covid-19 infections -- must register via CM-Chana application at least 24 hours before entering the province from June 1.

Residents of Chiang Mai’s Mae Chaem district will get the chance to win a calf once they register for their Covid jab.

As many as 9,783 prisoners in eight prisons nationwide tested positive for Covid-19 after the Department of Corrections began testing inmates between May 12 and 16, a news source said on Monday.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has proposed removing Chonburi and Chiang Mai from the red zone, or maximum control area, due to an improvement in the Covid-19 situation there, CCSA spokesman Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin said on Saturday.

The Central Chiang Mai Memorial Hospital has become a new Covid cluster after three patients concealed their information and infected seven medical staff and put 56 people at risk.

Chiang Mai authorities are aiming to vaccinate 13,000 residents per day at 43 vaccination stations set up around the northern province.

Chiang Mai University announced on Monday that it was closing the field hospital on its campus now that all Covid-19 patients being treated there have recovered and returned home.

A woman went online to complain about another female patient sleeping with her boyfriend in a field hospital in Chiang Mai despite zones clearly separating male and female patients there.

As many as 37 new arrivals at the Chiang Mai Central prison in Mae Taeng district tested positive for Covid-19, provincial public health office chief Dr Jatuchai Maneerat said on Thursday.