On October 18, 2021, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Prayuth Chan-ocha assigned Labour Minister Mr. Suchart Chomklin to visit the Factory Accommodation Isolation (FAI) according to area-specific preventive and control measures at Nissan Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Sisa Chorakhe Yai Subdistrict, Bang Sao Thong District, Samut Prakan Province. Assistant to the Labour Minister Mr. Surachai Chaitrakulthong, the Labour Minister’s Advisor, Mrs. Thiwalrat Angkinan, Assistant Minister from the Prime Minister’s Office performing duties for the Ministry of Labour Police Major General Nantachat Supamongkol, Permanent Secretary of Labour Mr. Boonchob Suttamanaswong, the Social Security Office’s Secretary-General, Mr. Boonsong Thapchaiyut, Deputy Governor of Samut Prakan Province Mr. Wanchai Kongkasem and the Ministry of Labour’s executives also joined the occasion. President of Nissan Group Thailand Mr. Ichao Sekiguchi, Managing Director of the Production Line Mr. Akarapol Kaewpinit and staff from Nissan Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd., gave a welcoming.
Mr. Suchart said that the Prime Minister is on an important mission. Today, he assigned the Labour Minister to visit the FAI, following area-specific preventive and control measures, within the company. He said that the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Prayuth Chan-ocha is concerned for the people. He thanked Nissan Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd. In Samut Prakan Province for taking part in driving and preventing the spread of COVID-19. The government under the leadership of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and the Ministry of Labour under the supervision of Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan is concerned for the people and those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the Ministry of Labour was instructed to assist and remedy those affected by the pandemic. The key measures are as follows: 1) Proactive screening for COVID-19 under the “Workforce Fighting Together” program in 13 locations, namely, the Thai-Japan Stadium, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, Chonburi, Chiang Mai, Samut Sakhon, Phuket, Rayong, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Chachoengsao, Songkhla, and Saraburi. The screening was from January 9 to July 31, 2021, whereby a total of 526,657 people were screened, and 23,705 cases were found positive for infection, representing 4.50 percent. 2) Vaccinations for Section 33 insured in Bangkok and over ten provinces in the red category. Vaccinations took place from June 7 to October 15, 2021, whereby 2,937,313 insured persons have been vaccinated, with 195,560 insured persons in Samut Prakan. 3) Remedies for employers and employees under Section 33, 39, and 40, in the areas affected by the lockdown in 29 provinces, totaling 12,130,175 people, amounting to 99,448,275,000 Baht. The remedial program in Samut Prakan province reached 583,848 people, amounting to 56,222,386,000 Baht.
At the same time, the Ministry of Labour initiated the Factory Sandbox project using the concept of managing the structure and processes in a “Public Health Economics” manner to build immunity for workers and to build confidence in driving the economy from the manufacturing sector, for investors in large-scale manufacturing enterprises in the 11 pilot provinces, including Chonburi, Nonthaburi, Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Chachoengsao, Samut Prakan, Rayong, Saraburi, Prachinburi, and Lop Buri. The effort was an integration between the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Public Health, and the Ministry of Industry. In the first phase, it operated in four provinces, namely Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Sakhon, and Chonburi, in companies with 500 or more insured people under the slogan “Inspect, Maintain, Control and Supervise.” The project kicked off at the same time in all four provinces on August 23. For the first phase of the project, as of October 15, 2021, it had screened for 118,339 insured people in the workplace, representing 47.34 percent of the target of 250,000 people. It has also vaccinated 52,518 people in the workplace, representing 52.52 percent of the 100,000 person goal.
Samut Prakan Province is in Phase 2 of the implementation plan. Today was a good opportunity for the Labour Minister to visit the Factory Accommodation Isolation (FAI) project following area-specific prevention and control measures within the Nissan Group Thailand.
“I would like to commend and thank Nissan Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd., in Samut Prakan Province, for playing an important role in driving the economy, society, and public health of the country. I would like to encourage all sectors to be safe from COVID-19. We will move forward together without leaving anyone behind,” concluded Mr. Suchart.
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Division of Public Relations
18 October 2021
