Thailand has lifted many entry barriers for tourists, allowed people to remove face masks in open-air places, ended midnight closing of nightlife entertainment venues and let almost all activities resume. The government also expects to declare Covid-19 endemic this month despite postponing its planned July 1 declaration. Nonetheless, the government insists it cannot lift the emergency decree, claiming the special law is essential for Covid control. From a disease-control perspective, the emergency decree seems unnecessary. The nation’s communicable disease control law and related public health…

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