"lockdown"

Concerns are growing that supply cannot keep up with demand for home appliances such as air conditioners and washing machines, due to the global shortage of semiconductors and Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdowns, which have hampered manufacturers’ production.

No industry crashed harder than tourism during the Covid-19 pandemic when the engine powering about 12 percent of Thai GDP was shut down by travel bans and lockdowns.

Shanghai's roads and subway stations hummed back into life on Wednesday (June 1) as the financial hub ended its strict two-month lockdown.

BEIJING - Beijing is tightening curbs across the city, including ordering millions of people to work from home and stay within their districts, in what city residents are saying amounts to a de facto lockdown.

Global companies in Shanghai work to ensure production amid lockdown

Measures to remain until results of mass testing on Monday are verified, analyzed

Thailand will not impose a lockdown despite a level 4 Covid-19 alert nationwide, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Tuesday.

A key Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) meeting to be held on Thursday is expected to consider easing lockdown measures and reintroducing the Test & Go scheme, a news source reported on Thursday morning.

No lockdown will be imposed in Thailand even though 205 Omicron cases have been confirmed so far, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Friday.

AMSTERDAM - The medieval castle outside Amsterdam had planned a cheeky holiday celebration, marking the end of a terrible year with "the worst tour youve ever had" and encouraging people to realize theres "stuff we can laugh about together."

With Thailand being able to achieve its first phase goal of administering more than 100 million doses, or vaccinating 70 per cent of its population, resulting in increased immunity, the rate of infection has continued to decline while foreign countries have seen higher infection rates, Sanan Angubolkul, chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC), said on Wednesday.

The U.K. government kept open the prospect of a Christmas lockdown to arrest a surge in the number Covid cases as Boris Johnson faces opposition from within his own cabinet to further restrictions.