Second phase of lockdown relaxation to start from May 17

The Cabinet has approved the proposal by the National Security Council to ease the strict measures in the second phase for businesses in the green group (moderate risk of the virus spreading).

Businesses that could reopen are:

1 Stores in department stores or communities malls, such as consumption, computers, electrical appliances, bedding, building materials, furniture, office supplies, flowers, clothes, cosmetics and sport equipment.
▪︎ commodities, gold and jewellery
▪︎service provider; internet cafe, laundromat, repair workshop, car shops for changing tyres, repairing and cleaning
▪︎ credit business
▪︎insurance companies
▪︎drug stores
▪︎dentist clinics
▪︎nail salons
▪︎restaurants, food courts and food centres

2 Large retail shops
▪︎building materials stores
▪︎furniture houses
▪︎large wholesale markets such as Simummuang market and Talaad Thai

3 Beauty clinics for body and skin (no surgeries on face)

4 Gym and fitness centres
▪︎Only allow non-physical-contact sport with only three people in one team and no viewers, such as badminton, table tennis, yoga, fencing, squash, etc.
▪︎partially open fitness centres for free weight training (no workouts in groups or use of exercise machines)
▪︎ public pools, allowing number of people in pool equal to lanes (at least 7-feet long) and only allowing one hour of use per person.

5 Hotel meeting rooms and convention halls for meetings of limited number of people

6 Library

7 Gallery and museum

8 Film crew to start production with 50 people from all sections in the filming studio and must have space for people to eat individually.

There are no changes in the measures on transportation -- no regular international transport, and strict screening of inter-provincial transport.

Curfew timings will be relaxed by one hour, from 11pm to 4am compared to 10pm to 4am at present.