Thai Central Bank Considers Omicron Outbreak as an Opportunity to Recover Economy

On Wednesday 6th January, the Bank of Thailand said that the surge in the number of Omicron cases in Thailand could lead to a more severe and long-lasting impact on the economic recovery of the country.

It added after the monetary policy meeting that under the baseline scenario, the surge in Omicron cases would not derail the economic recovery in Thailand but the uncertainty looming around the new variant made things unpredictable in....