Thailand adopts guidelines for declaring COVID-19 endemic – Asia Newsday

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai health authorities approved new guidelines Friday outlining the parameters for declaring the coronavirus pandemic an endemic disease. Official figures show that the country already meets the three criteria, but Ministry of Public Health spokesman Rungrueng Kitphati said it would still be between six months and a year before the government would be able to make the decision to start treating COVID-19 as an illness that is here to stay, like the flu or measles. Among other things, he said data from all of Thailand's provinces need to be checked, and authorities need to be sure that…