More schools in Bangkok and Pathum Thani were ordered to close on Tuesday due to Covid-19 fears.
Twenty-nine schools in Pathum Thani were temporarily closed until Jan 3, after a couple working as seafood vendors in Wat Sa Bua market, Thanyaburi, were found to be infected.
In Bangkok, Samsenwittayalai School said on Tuesday it would switch to online learning from today until Dec 30.
Other activities would also be put on hold until further notice.
Students, parents and teachers who had been in close contact with confirmed cases and/or visited Samut Sakhon since Dec 1 were advised to be tested, the school director said.
Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School in Wang Thonglang district is also shutting its doors from Wednesday until Jan 3.
In Phuket, all schools in the Kajonkiet group were on Tuesday ordered to shut today and tomorrow as the parent of a student at Kajonkiet Pattana School awaits the result of a Covid-19 test.
Meanwhile, National Children's Day, which is normally the second Saturday of every January, has been postponed by a week.
Another assessment of the Covid-19 situation would later be carried out if it were thought another postponement was needed. As for schools in Samut Sakhon, the location of the latest Covid-19 hotspot, all schools had already been shut.
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