The society recruited medical volunteers, who also work as full-time state officials, and got in touch with the public health permanent secretary to seek assistance. The volunteers were issued a letter from the Public Health Ministry recognising the mass testing work as an official duty. In addition, more public health volunteers were also sent from various provinces by the vanload. At least 300,000 sets of ATKs were given out by the Public Health Ministry to support the campaign. According to Yongyot Thammawut, the deputy public health permanent secretary, 3,509 people who were tested were given fa talai jone and 8,939 favipiravir.

Source: Bangkok Post August 14, 2021 21:56 UTC