Phuket officials publish full order for June 1 reopenings, beaches specifically not permitted

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Health Office (PPHO), which also serves as the Phuket Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Incident Command Centre, has published the 37-page provincial order listing all business, services and activities allowed to open and resume operations from today (June 1).

The extensive list also notes all the activities that are still not permitted, including any use of all beaches in Phuket.

The PPHO publicly posted the full order, signed and dated by Governor Phakaphong Tavipatana yesterday (May 31), at 10:42pm last night.

The order marks the following venues and activities as allowed to resume as of today as:

Schools for teacher preparations only
Restaurants
All shops in shopping malls, and all retail shops outside shopping malls
Shopping mall open hours extended one hour until 9pm
Movie production - not more than 15 people on site at one location
Hotel meeting and convention centres - no more than 200 people at any one event
Barbers and hair salons - no longer than two hours per client - no facial treatments
Amulet shops - must not have crowds
Kindergartens
All medical treatment centres including dentists
Beauty surgery centres
Tattoo shops
Fitness centres except sauna and steam rooms
Golf course
Indoor and outdoor sport complexes
Swimming pools
Pet shops
Botanic gardens
Museums
Spa centres
Boxing gyms and training centres including Muay Thai camps, but not boxing stadiums
Sports stadiums
Bowling alleys
Dance centres
Lakes, water activities allowed
Theatres and cinemas
Zoos
Hotels
Construction sites
Government identity card issuing centres
Land Office
Tour booking agencies and kiosks

All business and venue operators and their customers, clientele and visitors must comply with the health regulations in effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the order noted.

The order marked the following venues and activities as specifically not allowed to resume as of today as:

Cockfighting
Water parks
Entertainment venues (presumed to mean nightlife venues)
Martial arts training schools for Wu-Su, Karate, Taekwondo, Judo, Aikido
Kids’ zones, games centres
Internet cafes
Fortune teller booths
Snooker halls
Fishing venues
Beaches
Motorbike rental shops
Activities that create large gatherings of people such a parties and celebrations, except unless officials are present to enforce health regulations
Walking streets, except fresh produce vendors
Transport Office

As I have posted before there is an exemption for Thai fishermen and those going about their work - it’s possible actions of Farang having drinking parties on the beach after the bars were closed have contributed to the reluctance of the authorities to open the beaches - I saw this for myself at Ao Nang the day after bars closed - they all thought there were very clever emptying the seven 11’s

LOL....Thai nutcases in action... Muay Thai is allowed but Karate and Taekwondo not...can somebody tell this government officials for what they have this round hairy thing on their neck...PLEASE...useless as they never listen anyway

I posted last night how half of Patong's population that is left were at the beach. At this moment I am sitting behind the ribbon at a beach while 13 Thai people are down on the beach. So they should be.... and so should I. I am getting more and more disillusioned about my beautiful Thailand every day.