Closure of Tutoring Schools

Excerpt from an article in the Bangkok post (full article click here)

"The cabinet on Thursday approved the temporary closure of tutoring schools for 15 days starting Monday to limit the spreading of influenza A as the Public Health Ministry confirmed three more deaths from the virus. The move came after the Public Health Ministry reported that many students have caught the virus while at tutoring schools.

All tutoring schools throughout the country will be closed from Monday until July 28, the cabinet decided..

The temporary closure was necessary because most tutoring classes were in airconditioned rooms, which facilitate the spread of the virus because the students are in confined spaces, Deputy Education Minister Chaiwuti Bannawat said.

The cabinet also asked owners of online game shops to cooperate by closing their business during the same period, because many young players had also caught the infection."

My friend in Lampang owns a tutoring school in Lampang and he has had to close his school. He joked in an email for us to make most of the opportunity and for us to play more golf together (he has only recently started playing).

I'm trying to imagine if such a thing could happen in Australia. If the Australian goverment order all tutoring school in the country to close, just giving a couple of days notice, I'm sure that the government would be sued for compensation. How can you prove that a tutoring school is facilitating the spread of the virus? Why not just close the problem tutoring schools? How can you close tutoring schools and not other schools? But this is Thailand.