webfact Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Immigration Police join efforts at airports to prevent spread of Wuhan virus By THE NATION Immigration Police are working with the Department of Disease Control and Airports of Thailand Pcl (AOT) in monitoring major airports to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Pol Colonel Cherngron Rimphadee, deputy spokesman of Immigration Police, said: “We have assigned separate bays for planes arriving from Wuhan and Guangzhou to screen infected travellers at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Phuket and Chiang Mai international airports,” he said. “Furthermore, to ensure the safety of immigration staff who have to be in contact with over 60,000 passengers daily, we have come up with measures to prevent the spreading of germs and viruses.” The measures announced by Immigration Police are as follows: ➤ Enforce an hourly cleanup of passenger screening areas, including the passport checking booths, form filling counters, as well as equipments that have direct contact with passengers, with disinfectant and alcohol spray. ➤ All immigration police and airport staff must wear masks and gloves while working or communicating with passengers. ➤ Disinfectant dispensers will be provided at passport checking booths and passengers will be encouraged to clean their hands before entering the booths. ➤ Passengers’ behaviour will be closely monitored and those who display flu symptoms, such as frequent sneezing and coughing, will be separated from the public. The Department of Disease Control staff will be asked to check their condition. ➤ Managers and commanders must monitor their subordinates’ condition and alert medical staff immediately if they display abnormality. Furthermore, the AOT has installed thermo-scanners at screening points of passengers from cities on the watch list as per International Civil Aviation Organization standards, the deputy spokesman added. Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381113 -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-01-27 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post smutcakes Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 How about just temporarily banning flights from Mainland China, Hongkong and Taiwan to lessen the risks? 6 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Most of the above sound like reasonable steps.... if they really do what they're promising to do, which is always a question here. But when they talk about separate "bays" for planes arriving from heavily impacted areas in China, I wonder what that means exactly... Are they going to segregate the at-risk Chinese arrivals into a totally separate area for Immigration processing, or are they just talking about them lining up at their own queues in the same big Immigration hall areas along with everyone else? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RotBenz8888 Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) Maybe they can make some kind of shields of all the old vinylboards? And speaking about recycling, why not put Big Joke in the front, he dodged the bullets and will surely resist those viruses as well. Edited January 27, 2020 by RotBenz8888 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cricky Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 Wasting their time. It's contagious when signs of symptoms are not showing. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lemonjelly Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 Wuhan airport is closed, so basically they’re only checking passengers from Guangzhou. Anyone with symptoms and is from another Chinese province just sail through. There might be many Chinese nationals trying to flee China out of fear, Thailand could be an easy option. 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, webfact said: Pol Colonel Cherngron Rimphadee, deputy spokesman of Immigration Police, said: “We have assigned separate bays for planes arriving from Wuhan and Guangzhou to screen infected travellers at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Phuket and Chiang Mai international airports,” he said. I don't get it should be an out dated news or? My understanding was Wuhan airports was already closed and no plane could take off from this area,particularly for tourist purpose? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: Most of the above sound like reasonable steps... It's better than nothing but unfortunately pretty useless the virus can be undetected on someone during few days and still the person is contagious. The only way is to ban all the arrivals from China. but they are afraid of the financial losses 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sunderland Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 16 minutes ago, VYCM said: Wasting their time. It's contagious when signs of symptoms are not showing. Exactly. They don't get it at all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sunderland Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said: It's better than nothing but unfortunately pretty useless the virus can be undetected on someone during few days and still the person is contagious. The only way is to ban all the arrivals from China. but they are afraid of the financial losses Absolutely. This should have happened last week. By the time they are forced to do it, it will be too late. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gunderhill Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) And those lovely disease spreading fingerprint scanners? Edited January 27, 2020 by gunderhill 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 a lot of virus can change hands (throats) in that 'hour' timeframe! dump the IO cameras, and install the scanners in their place! in pix: most IOs and BIB using cheap 20 baht paper masks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircooledflat4 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, tifino said: in pix: most IOs and BIB using cheap 20 baht paper masks! they should be wearing eye protection / swimming goggles too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, aircooledflat4 said: 7 minutes ago, tifino said: in pix: most IOs and BIB using cheap 20 baht paper masks! they should be wearing eye protection / swimming goggles too even the money changers have better protection - behind glass windows 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post unamazedloso Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 chinese are coming and going over borders also. just did a border run yesterday and saw chinese people when i never have before at phunamron, dont know if its significant or if they are just border running but a thought crossed my mind and that is that these new fingerprint machines dont get cleaned after every passenger so this stupid system could have infected much more than should have been? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy John Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 The way things stand I am pretty right up here in the sticks.......unless some one back home turns up their toes......or one of the girls who is expecting drops a premmy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 "Boss, what are we going here?" "Exposing ourselves to the virus in the worst possible place and then going to work tomorrow at Bangkok immigration with a two week incubation period." "OK. What for lunch?" 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) 58 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said: It's better than nothing but unfortunately pretty useless the virus can be undetected on someone during few days and still the person is contagious. The only way is to ban all the arrivals from China. but they are afraid of the financial losses I tend to agree with your overall comment. But doing what they're doing is not entirely useless. They will, hopefully, catch those who are showing symptoms. But obviously, they won't catch those not yet showing symptoms... So for me, the authorities doing something is better than nothing. Every one with symptoms that they do intercept is one less wandering around Thailand with the potential to spread the virus. Edited January 27, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCross Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 7 minutes ago, Grumpy John said: The way things stand I am pretty right up here in the sticks.......unless some one back home turns up their toes......or one of the girls who is expecting drops a premmy. if it goes off (like in china) i'd expect anyone who can to escape the cities to head back to their family villages before they close them off 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend49 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 3 hours ago, kingofthemountain said: I don't get it should be an out dated news or? My understanding was Wuhan airports was already closed and no plane could take off from this area,particularly for tourist purpose? Nobody told the boss of Immigration yet about Wuhun airport. The man whose job it is , on holidays. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emdog Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Jesus wept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Ok the mask & gloves may protect the IO. But he'll be passing on the droplets he caught on his gloves from the passport right to the next one. Only solution I can think of is wear disposable safety gear when interacting with an IO and get rid of it ASAP afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) 25 minutes ago, DrTuner said: Ok the mask & gloves may protect the IO. But he'll be passing on the droplets he caught on his gloves from the passport right to the next one. Only solution I can think of is wear disposable safety gear when interacting with an IO and get rid of it ASAP afterwards. Right, and how they can manage for taking the fingerprints? They don't clean the glass after each traveller, it should be a huge transmission way for the virus Edited January 27, 2020 by kingofthemountain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yadon Toploy Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Immigration officers can wear the masks and hide behind screens but passengers have to remove masks to be photographed and have to touch a fingerprint reader touched by tens of thousands of others previously, including Chinese nationals coming directly from the country where the outbreak started... Hope those billion dollar biometrics were worth it, hey, they might even be the cause of a massive pandemic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodysfriend Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 5 hours ago, kingofthemountain said: The only way is to ban all the arrivals from China. but they are afraid of the financial losses This is true . But the financial losses will be much bigger if they let them in , ( even a person in apparently good health can transmit the virus ...) , and than there is a mayor outbreak in Thailand . NOBODY will come to visit Thailand anymore . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youlike Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Malaysia refuses ALL flights/transport from Wuhan, planes underway will be sent back. Mongolia closes ALL borders with China. Thailand still welcomes them..???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 26 minutes ago, Youlike said: Mongolia closes ALL borders with China. Good call from them. Will be very hard to enforce though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 20 hours ago, webfact said: Pol Colonel Cherngron Rimphadee, deputy spokesman of Immigration Police, said: “We have assigned separate bays for planes arriving from Wuhan and Guangzhou to screen infected travellers at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Phuket and Chiang Mai international airports,” he said. Profit, profit, profit profit.... take the quick buck now while you can, hat's your MO but wait for the huge losses yet to come when this outbreak is well and truly established in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Managers and commanders must monitor their subordinates’ condition and alert medical staff immediately if they display abnormality. Thats normal in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zydeco Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 21 hours ago, webfact said: Enforce an hourly cleanup of passenger screening areas, including the passport checking booths, form filling counters, as well as equipments that have direct contact with passengers, with disinfectant and alcohol spray. Shouldn't they have been doing this anyway? As a standard precaution, even in non-emergencies? It appears not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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