Region 8 Police Commander Pol Lt Gen Amphol Buarabporn and Phuket Provincial Office Chief Administrative Officer (Palad) Anuphap Rodkwan Yodrabum, announced that disease prevention measures are being tightened at restaurants and entertinment venues across the island in a statement outside Phuket Police Station on Saturday afternoon.
The officials revealed that the move comes in order to better control the COVID-19 epidemic and to ensure everything is done to prevent the disease from spreading, in accordance with the policy of the National Police Commissioner.
Officers from Region 8 Police, the Tourist Police, Immigration Bureau, personnel from the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command and from the 4th Army Region, various administrative departments and public health agencies then proceeded to check restaurants and entertainment venues in the Phuket Town area to ensure that best-practice approaches were being employed.
Establishment owners from restaurants and entertainment venues were instructed to strictly comply with disease prevention measures and reminded not to violate the provincial order relating to this in order to reduce the medical epidemic of COVID-19 in the area as much as possible.