(Bloomberg) -- Thailand said it’s mulling an emergency decree to enable the government to borrow more money to support the economy over the next two to three months.

There’s no limitation on the size of the potential funding, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said in a briefing Friday in Bangkok after a meeting of key officials and regulators. The Finance Ministry has been asked to work on a “big” stimulus package, he said.

Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy is forecast by the central bank to suffer its worst contraction this year -- a 5.3% decline -- since the Asian financial crisis, even after the government rolled out a series of stimulus programs.

The novel coronavirus outbreak has badly damaged both tourism and domestic consumption amid restrictions to curb the outbreak.

(Updates with more from the deputy premier in the second paragraph.)

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