The Department of Disease Control (DDC) aims to test an average of 6,000 persons per million population, or 85,000 samples per month, for Covid-19, as part of long-term disease-control measures, DDC director-general Dr Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai said on Thursday (May 7).

Family Mart stores have limited customers to 10 at a time as part of social distancing measures to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection.