Thailand to screen arrivals from China as tally of virus infections hits 14

 

Health workers use infrared thermometers to check the temperature of tourists who arrive at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport, Thailand, January 25, 2020. Picture taken January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Panumas Sanguanwong

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand announced plans on Tuesday to screen all arrivals from China for symptoms of a deadly virus and confirmed six more infections among such visitors, taking the southeast Asian nation's tally to 14, health officials said.

 

The new strain of coronavirus claimed its first victim in Beijing, the Chinese capital, taking the death toll to 106 as infections reached 4,515, although there have been no deaths outside China.

 

Five victims among Thailand's new cases, aged between 6 and 70, came from China's central province of Hubei, and belonged to the same family, health official Tanarak Plipat, told reporters, and the sixth from southwestern Chongqing province.

 

One passenger from among the family of seven travelling together was taken to hospital after showing symptoms on arrival, added Tanarak, the deputy director-general of the department of disease control.

 

The other four of the family were quarantined after showing symptoms following monitoring, he added.

 

"Now we will expand screening to all Chinese from China and prepare equipment to screen 100%," said Sukhum Kanchanapimai, the permanent secretary of the public health ministry.

 

Thailand had earlier screened passengers only from China's central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, its southern city of Guangzhou and northeastern Changchun across five airports, from Suvarnabhumi in Bangkok to those at Chiang Mai, Don Mueng, Phuket and Krabi.

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-01-28

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Thailand numba one now, right? I think they surpassed the number of diagnosed in Hong Kong with this update.

 

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

 

Why are they being allowed to enter , Malaysia saying CANNOT 

1 minute ago, Ireland32 said:

Why are they being allowed to enter , Malaysia saying CANNOT 

Philippines stopped giving them visa on arrival. Taiwan stopped issuing all visas to Chinese. Mongolia closed their border with China.

 

Thailand just started screening everyone.

 

 

Until this all shakes out, one way or another, I shall:

 

1) Not get on the BTS

2) Not go to CTW or Paragon or any other mall (Would have included IconSiam, but I've never been there anyway

3) Prepare my food at home

4) Restrict taxis to a minimum and avoid buses

5) Not get on the MRT

6) Limit my range to 2 or 3 km of home and the nearest Foodland and 7 Elevens

7) Watch movies at home

8 ) Read more books

9) Finish the four articles I've been working on.

 

See you on the other side.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

Why are they being allowed to enter , Malaysia saying CANNOT 

??? Money from tourism is more important than dealing with an uncontrollable epidemic.  You know the “Thai way”... react after it is a big problem. 

so thailand is now on the same exponential path as china: 1, 2, 5, 8, 14, ??

 

same virus so same result?

 

 

7 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Thailand numba one now, right? I think they surpassed the number of diagnosed in Hong Kong with this update.

 

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

 

Every person infected infects another 2.6. At present, no cases have been reported in the Philippines. ThaiVisa is blocking communications from outside Thailand. Why? 

2 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

so thailand is now on the same exponential path as china: 1, 2, 5, 8, 14, ??

 

same virus so same result?

 

 

us is on the same path, 5 cases

5 minutes ago, simtemple said:

Every person infected infects another 2.6. At present, no cases have been reported in the Philippines. ThaiVisa is blocking communications from outside Thailand. Why? 

Au contrere, three cases reported in Cebu.

7 minutes ago, zydeco said:

Until this all shakes out, one way or another, I shall:

 

1) Not get on the BTS

2) Not go to CTW or Paragon or any other mall (Would have included IconSiam, but I've never been there anyway

3) Prepare my food at home

4) Restrict taxis to a minimum and avoid buses

5) Not get on the MRT

6) Limit my range to 2 or 3 km of home and the nearest Foodland and 7 Elevens

7) Watch movies at home

8 ) Read more books

9) Finish the four articles I've been working on.

 

See you on the other side.

 

 

10. Swimming goggles and N95 face mask. Chinese doctor reported contracting Coronavirus through his eyes

11. Leave Thailand for the Philippines and never return. 

8 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

so thailand is now on the same exponential path as china: 1, 2, 5, 8, 14, ??

 

same virus so same result?

R0 2.6 so ... something like 36, 95,246,639,1663,4324 and so on. Of course it'll be more since they let in people from Wuhan for days and many are walking around still in the incubation period.

2 minutes ago, simtemple said:

11. Leave Thailand for the Philippines and never return. 

Do that and you'll need to go through immigration lines and the airport. I ain't gonna do that either.

We all know screening is limited to those showing the symptoms, what about the ones that don't show the symptoms during incubation, i.e. during the screening, they are the ones that infect the rest of the population once out and about.

 

STOP all flights in or all Chinese from travelling till this is sorted, regardless of the costs, ooops, forgot, money over life.

 

Don't panic, Prayut said he had it under control 100%

Just now, DrTuner said:

R0 2.6 so ... something like 36, 95,246,639,1663,4324 and so on. Of course it'll be more since they let in people from Wuhan for days and many are walking around still in the incubation period.

Funny thing. If it's true there are only 20,000 Chinese tourists left in Thailand, that means in less than two weeks they'll have the all clear and be the safest to be around. Unless they themselves turn around and catch it from a Thai.

16 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

Why are they being allowed to enter , Malaysia saying CANNOT 

 As of yesterday, Malaysia has...

 

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halted all immigration facilities including issuing visas for Chinese citizens from Wuhan and the areas around Hubei province with immediate effect.

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/01/27/coronavirus-travel-ban-malaysia-stops-visas-for-chinese-travellers-from-affected-areas

 

23 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

USA has over 110 

Um.... No.

 

 

More generally....  When making statements of supposed facts, could people provide links to their sources?  Providing links won't make the statements true, but they do at least give people the chance to scrutinize the credibility of a statement.

 

Providing Source Links = helpful

No Source Links = not helpful

52 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

so thailand is now on the same exponential path as china: 1, 2, 5, 8, 14, ??

 

same virus so same result?

Nearly all the confirmed cases in Thailand have been people who came from China. So if China has exponential infection growth then the confirmed cases of infected people who enter Thailand will follow the same pattern albeit on a lower scale until there are effective and wide ranging travel bans.

 

Let's just hope that infections of people inside Thailand who didn't travel to China don't start like this. Until there's a vacine or cure, limiting the virus' spreading can only be achieved by severely lowering interaction and increasing sanitary measures.

If Thailand will not quarantine China, then the world may need to quarantine Thailand.

so Chinese not allowed to fly home due to flight bans in China - where do they go to sort out visa extensions etc - Immigration

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51275896?ns_linkname=news_central&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking

 

The death toll from the new coronavirus now stands at 106, with the number of infections almost doubling in a day to more than 4,500.

 

The Phillipines announced on Tuesday that it would stop issuing visas on arrival for Chinese travellers.

 

• Eight cases: Thailand
• Five: USA, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan
• Four: Malaysia, South Korea, Japan
• Three: France
• Two: Vietnam
• One: Nepal, Canada, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Germany, Cambodia

 

 

Six more coronavirus cases discovered in Thailand

By The Nation

 

 

Thailand has discovered six more patients infected with the novel coronavirus from China – five from Heibei and one from Chongqing, permanent health secretary Sukhum Karnchanapimai confirmed today (January 28).

 

The six are under quarantine at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute and awaiting a third lab result. 

 

The first patient from Heibei is a six-year-old child, detected first at an airport. Later, traces of coronavirus were found in four members of his family. The person from Chongqing went to a hospital after suspecting he had contracted the virus.

 

The recent Wuhan coronavirus situation in China has led to 106 deaths while some 1,500 are severely sick from the infection.

As of Tuesday (January 28), the Chinese government has closed many of its cities and controlled all entry points.

 

They include Guangdong, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hubei (Wuhan is in this province), Tianjin, Anhui, Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shandong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Hebei, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Hainan, Xinjiang, Henan, Heilongjiang, Gansu, and Liaoning.

Some 3,500 are infected and 6,500 to 14,000 people are being closely monitored.

 

Outside China, 18 countries have reported 59 cases: 14 in Thailand (5 have recovered, 9 being monitored); 3 in Japan (2 have recovered, 1 being monitored); eight in Hong Kong; seven in Russia; five in Australia; four in Malaysia; three each in South Korea, United States, Singapore and France; two each in Taiwan, Macau and Vietnam; one each in Nepal (recovered), Canada, Cambodia, Germany, and Sri Lanka.

 

The World Health Organisation is in a meeting to assess the situation in China. WHO recently admitted an error in wording its report as “moderate” for global risk. According to the daily report, the risk is “very high” in China and “high” at the regional level.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381181

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-01-29

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Thai government announced it was contained and 100% under control and they were also curing patients.

24 minutes ago, Thechook said:

Thai government announced it was contained and 100% under control and they were also curing patients.

 

There is no cure, they dont even know the strain yet.... recovered maybe but not cured 

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""Now we will expand screening to all Chinese from China and prepare equipment to screen 100%," said Sukhum Kanchanapimai, the permanent secretary of the public health ministry."

 

Why not all passengers regardless of nationality who arrive into Thailand on any flight from China?

14 hours ago, simtemple said:

10. Swimming goggles and N95 face mask. Chinese doctor reported contracting Coronavirus through his eyes

11. Leave Thailand for the Philippines and never return. 

So you think it's not possible for the virus to arrive in / spread in the Phils?

USA has 5!!!!!!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7938847/Bangkok-faces-greatest-threat-killer-coronavirus-LA-New-York-London.html

YEAH RIGHT!  My AP came back with her SO from China, landed at 0335hrs and breezed through immigration without any scans and/or checks.  This was the beginning of this week!  

 

Not only that!  She went to a local hospital to get cleared voluntarily and one hospital sent her to another...  Thailand IS prepared INDEED!  God help us all! 555

how soon we forget that USA had 80,000 die of the flu in 2018. not much was written. USA health care so bad and expensive the GOP surpressed the news in general.