Cabinet approves Emergency Decree extension, prison funding

[Thaiger]

The Emergency Decree enacted to attempt to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand has just been extended for 2 more months, until the end of July. Cabinet ministers met yesterday to determine the future of the decree and agreed to extend it from June 1 to July 31, while also approving funding for fighting Covid-19 in the Thai prison system. A government spokesperson confirmed the extension, citing that the Emergency Decree is necessary to facilitate agency cooperation in fighting Covid-19. The Emergency Decree empowers various health, policy, and enforcement agencies to coordinate together on anti-Covid-19 measures as well as […]

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1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

while also approving funding for fighting Covid-19 in the Thai prison system

The full report details the approval of a budget, under special Emergency Decree powers, amounting to over half a billion baht, from which a mere - given it's almost incidental inclusion in a massive list of other planned spending - 311 million baht will be apportioned to reducing Covid infection in the country's prison system.

That's approaching one-third of a billion baht, specifically to reduce Covid infection risk in the prisons. Wow! . . . that does take quite a bit of coming to terms with and does beg the question 'what if this ED budget provision wasn't available for the prison system as it now stands?' Just how bad are Thailand's prisons?