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Volunteers hand out food and other necessities to people stuck in their homes due to heavy flooding in Phetchabun’s Lom Sak district on Sunday.

BERKELEY, Calif. - On a quiet, tree-lined street in the Bay Area, Jon Reeds computer screen swims with maps of Kabul, chat threads and text messages from Special Operations, military and civilian contractors inside and around the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

Long queues form early each morning outside a motorcycle shop on Bangkok’s Phitasanulok Road, where a farmer is donating her produce to feed people facing hardship from Covid-19.

Applications for volunteers to trial the ‘ChulaCov19’ vaccine closed on Saturday, three days before the due date. The Chula Vaccine Research Centre’s (CVRC) vaccine is expected to be ready for administration trial by the end of August.

Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine is seeking healthy volunteers for human trials of its ChulaCov19 vaccine in elderly people. To be eligible, volunteers must be 56-75 years old with no underlying disease and never have been infected with Covid-19 or vaccinated.

A volunteer association in Rayong’s Ban Chang district said on Monday that it has modified a bus to transport Covid-19 patients nationwide free of charge.

The Somdet Chaophraya Emergency Rescue Unit on Saturday asked the government to pay more attention to firefighting volunteers.

US troops have helped construct a new school building in Sa Kaew province as part of the joint Cobra Gold military exercise.

NationTV, Spring News and AIS have teamed up with more than 30 volunteer doctors, both domestic and overseas, to set up an online clinic to provide medical advice and diagnostics to people suspected of contracting Covid-19, Nation Multimedia Group Plc announced on Wednesday (May 5).

Volunteers in Lampang province undertook a cleaning up exercise at Wat Pa Ruak on Friday (June 26) to maintain cleanliness and raise awareness on self-discipline among people in the province.

SCHEME OFFERS CREDITS FOR TAKING CARE OF ELDERLY CITIZENS IN 28 PROVINCES

A SMALL hospital in Loei’s Wang Saphung district has won an award for the application of modern technology in which its “Aor Sor Mor” village health volunteers send in disease monitoring information via an online network.