Thai airport says still limiting virus scans as 7th patient reported

By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Panarat Thepgumpanat

 

A banner on coronavirus is pictured at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi international airport in Thailand, January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's busiest airport said on Saturday it was awaiting more information from Chinese authorities before deciding whether to expand screening of passengers arriving from China to try to detect the new coronavirus.

 

Thailand has seven confirmed cases in the outbreak, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Some 41 people have died in China and more than 1,300 have been infected globally, most of them in China.

 

Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport said it had begun temperature scans on passengers arriving from Guangzhou and Wuhan, but not all Chinese cities. Flights from Wuhan have been cancelled because it is under quarantine.

 

"We will perform a virus scan if the Chinese government announces to watch out for other cities apart from Wuhan and Guangzhou," the General Manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport, Suthirawat Suwannawat, told reporters.

 

China is Thailand's biggest source of tourists and had nearly 11 million visitors from there last year.

 

As concern grows in Thailand over the possibility of a bigger outbreak, some social media users have accused the government of caring more about the money from Chinese tourists arriving during the Lunar New Year holiday than public health.

 

"Our country can control the situation well. We’ve had patients who are being treated and are improving, many have also gone home," Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters.

 

Government agencies including the health, tourism and transport ministries are due to meet on Sunday to come up with protective measures to prevent the spread of the virus.

 

(Additional reporting by Artorn Pookasook, Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Editing by Frances Kerry)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-01-26

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Waiting for information from China? Probably the only country in the world I'd trust less than Thailand with official 'news' and self-serving official BS. Thailand's 'government' again proves it cannot act decisively in a crisis.

Interesting advice...

 

"No unprotected contact with live wild or farm animals"

 

 

 

It only makes “cents”, less money to skim if they create a scare.  It is affecting tourism. I have family considering canceling a trip here in February.

4 minutes ago, Rawnthai said:

It only makes “cents”, less money to skim if they create a scare.  It is affecting tourism. I have family considering canceling a trip here in February.

I was wondering how many people are considering the same to cancel their bookings? and people just give it a miss and not travel

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport said it had begun temperature scans on passengers arriving from Guangzhou and Wuhan

They won't be too busy then.

 

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Flights from Wuhan have been cancelled because it is under quarantine.

 

Stay out of 7/11 I stopped at one the other night it was like down town Shanghai I walked out and I've told the midget to stay away from the seafood market and another restaurant she like to go to, too many Chinese use it.

Make sure the food is cooked and hot and dont share and wash your hands before eating 

Accoding to the BBC and the newspaper that can't be quoted on here, China is suspending the sale of packege tours abroad from tomorrow. Now that will have the Thai tourism authorities worried plus many businesses of course.

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Interesting advice...

 

"No unprotected contact with live wild or farm animals"

 

 

 

Condoms required?

 

3 hours ago, sharecropper said:

Waiting for information from China? Probably the only country in the world I'd trust less than Thailand with official 'news' and self-serving official BS. Thailand's 'government' again proves it cannot act decisively in a crisis.

If these numties just listen to the news they would know there are at least 10 Chinese Cities on lock-down.  Again, incompetant decisions by those who have their priorities totally wrong!

2 hours ago, Rawnthai said:

It only makes “cents”, less money to skim if they create a scare.  It is affecting tourism. I have family considering canceling a trip here in February.

temperature will increase in go go bars 

15 minutes ago, robertson468 said:

If these numties just listen to the news they would know there are at least 10 Chinese Cities on lock-down.  Again, incompetant decisions by those who have their priorities totally wrong!

There's 15 cities on lock down. However they are what the Chinese call an urban conurbation, i.e. there's nothing to say when you leave one and enter the next, they're all joined up and they are all in Hubei province which only has one airport.

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I was wondering how many people are considering the same to cancel their bookings? and people just give it a miss and not travel

It'll give TAT another excuse for less tourists!! ????????????????

MAKES NO SENSE, SCREEN ALL CHINESE OR OTHERS COMING FROM CHINA !!!

We are in very safe hands. After all the health minister Anuthin was formerly an engineer, and has worked in many private companies including the position of Managing Director of Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Public Company Limited. So, as usual he was picked for his extensive level of experience, in dealing with health emergencies.

 

The Prayuth administration. Always count on them to consider the public good above all else, to always select talent based on experience and merit, and to always do the right thing by their people.

3 hours ago, sharecropper said:

Waiting for information from China? Probably the only country in the world I'd trust less than Thailand with official 'news' and self-serving official BS. Thailand's 'government' again proves it cannot act decisively in a crisis.

I can post them videos of Chinese dead in the street and bus terminals if they like

The TAT manager listening to the news from China

Thailands main problem: incompetence! Listen and waiting for decissions of another country that never tell the truth to public!

Better watch up latest information on countries out of Asia working on that problem and have disease institutes!

Do you believe them?????????????????????????????

 

Better get informed online by reliable sources!!!!!!!!!!!

I am wondering if the virus can survive on articles of infected people like purses, suitcases, and

even clothing?  Just curious..

Geezer

Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected:

 

Note: It’s a Daily Mail article so take it with some salt… Also, the nurse talk about 90000 people infected… why not, but did she counted them herself?How did she got the number? It’s possible but until further proof take it 50/50:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7929657/Nurse-treating-coronavirus-sufferers-China-claims-90-000-people-infected.html?fbclid=IwAR2I8qx5V9lKTspBK-Z5unb6E_scPWSaK6eK062plYsZViNQvrIwzrONexo

20 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I can post them videos of Chinese dead in the street and bus terminals if they like

I’ve read this 10 times and and it just does not make sense to me. Chinese dead in the streets and in bus terminals???? Is this a fact or someone trying to be funny about a pretty serious situation?

And still the Chinese walk around, spitting on the pavement, they just don't care anything.

18 minutes ago, manhood said:

Listen and waiting for decissions of another country that never tell the truth to public!

What country does?

5 minutes ago, Mark17AA said:

And still the Chinese walk around, spitting on the pavement, they just don't care anything.

And that's just the least of it, because I have witnessed them spitting on the floors of shopping malls {yes inside of the malls) and one did it right next to me so I shouted at him "you dirty bar-steward", but he walked on oblivious.

 

Sneezing over the open salad area, and just about anywhere they wish without covering their face is something else which makes me very wary of these horrible people.

 

And don't get me started about them urinating on the floors or defecating on the pavements, both of which I've seen them do, because I have no time for them, and if they were to put the whole of China on a lockdown, I would be forever grateful.

1) There's no such thing as a "virus scanner".  These are thermal scanners which can only detect abnormally high body temperatures, aka "fever".

 

Thermal Image Scanning for Influenza Border Screening: Results of an Airport Screening Study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016318/

 

 

 

2) Coronavirus "usually" is afebrile, i.e. no fever.

 

PATHOGENICITY: Usually produce an afebrile cold in adults, characterized by nasal discharge, and malaise; may exacerbate respiratory symptoms in asthmatic and chronic pulmonary disease patients; implicated in gastroenteritis; greater occurrence in children; maybe associated with pneumonia and pleural reactions, rarely manifests in neurological complications; immunity is serotype specific; antigenic heterogeneity allows for multiple symptomatic reinfections

 

https://www.msdsonline.com/resources/sds-resources/free-safety-data-sheet-index/human-coronavirus/

 

 

Edited January 26, 20206 yr by SiSePuede419

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

As concern grows in Thailand over the possibility of a bigger outbreak, some social media users have accused the government of caring more about the money from Chinese tourists arriving during the Lunar New Year holiday than public health.

And so say all of us, And so say all of us ........

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I was wondering how many people are considering the same to cancel their bookings? and people just give it a miss and not travel

It wont be too long before Foreign Governments start to issue travel advisories for all SE Asia Nations due to the rapid spread of this Virus.

 

15 minutes ago, xylophone said:

And that's just the least of it, because I have witnessed them spitting on the floors of shopping malls {yes inside of the malls) and one did it right next to me so I shouted at him "you dirty bar-steward", but he walked on oblivious.

 

I read in the NYT back in the 90's that there's no curse words in Chinese. 

 

Oh, there's plenty of ways Chinese use to insult people. 

 

They listed dozens of ways shop owners might insult their customers, including the racist epithet "darkie".

 

According to the article, the absolute worst insult is to call them a "turtle egg".  Sea turtles lay hundreds of eggs in the sand and then immediately take off, never to see their offspring again, except by accident. ????

Edited January 26, 20206 yr by SiSePuede419

22 minutes ago, Gerald Smith said:

I’ve read this 10 times and and it just does not make sense to me. Chinese dead in the streets and in bus terminals???? Is this a fact or someone trying to be funny about a pretty serious situation?

There are a number of links been posted elsewhere, after watching them last night, this is a very serious situation that needs to be controlled immediately. Yes people dropping in the street, on buses, in hospital corridors....police forcing people into ambulances...one shows a hospital with at least 10 people on a hospital floor totally covered meaning they are probably already dead.