South Korean woman tests positive for coronavirus after Thailand visit

[alex8912]

28 minutes ago, SpanishExpat said:

Yeah that was 2 weeks ago lol. So it`s close to impossible, even if there was a government which take that serious. So forget it. It just shows me, that there is a real risk (at least in BKK). The government may think that the people are stupid, but it`s an easy statistical approach. Thousand of tourists from Wuhan have landed in January, before the city was quarantined. Just 1-2 infected amongst those is enough the spread that stuff. 

It’s not possible to interview her and find out exactly where she stayed or even places she visited?  Mr lol?? Extremely easy.

[Thechook]

But Prayuth assured everyone he had it contained and under control.

[Golden Triangle]

Anyway, you lot should know better than commenting on this drivel, come Sunday you will all be branded Bar stool curmudgeons spreading unnecessary panic and fear with absolutely no basis in fact ????????????

[DLock]

17 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

In looking at some Korea news sources just now, I see that the South Korean government also as of today/Tuesday has enacted an entry ban on anyone who's been to Wuhan or Hubei province in the prior 14 days.

 

...and soon, Thailand...hopefully.

[FarFlungFalang]

8 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Those caves that they made a film about recently seem pretty safe ???? 

Have to pump in some water to create an airlock and remember to take some biscuts.

[zydeco]

5 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Time to change the DG.

He's from Ethiopia, where he was a long time politician and public official who helped coverup epidemics in his own country. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/health/candidate-who-director-general-ethiopia-cholera-outbreaks.html

 

And whose country is a debt slave to China. 

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Between 2000 and 2014, China provided over $12 billion in loan finance (usually tied to infrastructure projects undertaken by Chinese firms). There is growing Chinese investment in the Ethiopian economy, while imports of cheap consumer goods from China ($3.4 billion in 2015) greatly exceeding exports from Ethiopia to China ($380 million in 2015). The Chinese appear to be interested in Ethiopia for political reasons (among African countries, its governance and developmental orientation is closest to that of China, and it hosts the African Union headquarters), and as a business partner. Ethiopia's focus on infrastructure has created numerous opportunities for Chinese construction firms. Ethiopia is also a significant market for Chinese exports that will expand as Ethiopia's rapid economic growth continues. For Ethiopia, Chinese finance provides critical support for the government's legitimacy, as electricity, transport, and employment opportunities continue to expand, stimulating economic growth and helping promote exports to other countries.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Ethiopia_relations

 

[DrTuner]

Just now, FarFlungFalang said:

Have to pump in some water to create an airlock and remember to take some biscuts.

Just don't start eating the bats.

[SkyFax]

52 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Shirely a quick check of her passport would clarify this.Why leave in the ambiguity?

It was the Koreans who left it in ambiguity:

"The statement did not explicitly rule out a visit to China by the patient, and KCDC Director Jeong Eun-kyeong declined to comment further."

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea-thailand/south-korean-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-thailand-visit-idUSKBN1ZY0HC

 

Edited February 4, 2020 by SkyFax

[Traubert]

7 minutes ago, Monomial said:

Expect every country that put quarantine measures in effect to China to now add Thailand to the list of countries disallowed for travel. Looks as if the Thai government just signed their own death warrants with respect to tourism. It is now going to be Chinese and Thai entry bans.

 

Again?

 

It's good job they're Buddhists and get reincarnated every time.

 

That damned Golden Goose refuses to die also no matter how often they try and kill it.

 

Oh and there's no more room for nails in the coffin either.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, zydeco said:

He's from Ethiopia, where he was a long time politician and public official who helped coverup epidemics in his own country. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/health/candidate-who-director-general-ethiopia-cholera-outbreaks.html

 

I wonder if the next WHO director general is going to be from some better country... like Uganda or North Korea???  

[FarFlungFalang]

10 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

It’s not possible to interview her and find out exactly where she stayed or even places she visited?  Mr lol?? Extremely easy.

So the next step is to find and interview all the people she came within the 2metre range of posible infection and the find and interview who all those people came in contact with?Yeah your idea of "extremely easy" is a lot different to mine.

[Gweiloman]

17 minutes ago, JHolmesJr said:

would you trust a man called tedross adhanayom ghebreyesus?

More than I would trust someone who proclaims himself to be a very stable genius. 

[carstenp]

49 minutes ago, SkyFax said:

From the OP:  The statement did not explicitly rule out a visit to China, however.

It does in another paper we not allowed to comment.

 

She has not been in china????

[alex8912]

2 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

So the next step is to find and interview all the people she came within the 2metre range of posible infection and the find and interview who all those people came in contact with?Yeah your idea of "extremely easy" is a lot different to mine.

No. Just find out where she stayed and why not where she visited. Would you like to volunteer to be the next one to stay in her hotel room? Your next step theory is stupid so knock it off. 

[FarFlungFalang]

4 minutes ago, SkyFax said:

It was the Koreans who left it in ambiguity:

"The statement did not explicitly rule out a visit to China by the patient, and KCDC Director Jeong Eun-kyeong declined to comment further."

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea-thailand/south-korean-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-thailand-visit-idUSKBN1ZY0HC

 

Yes but why?Is it politics or something else?Just seems very strange to leave it hanging like that unnecessarily.Possibly a translation error? 

[spiekerjozef]

Maybe she did visit the virology institute in Wuhan first as a tourist attraction and flew to bangkok afterwards.

[graemeaylward]

"Tanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Thai Department of Disease Control, said the woman could have contracted the virus in Thailand.

 

"It's possible because the virus is already spreading domestically in Thailand," Tanarak said."

 

If the deputy director-general of Thai Dept of Disease Control is publicly stating that the virus is already spreading domestically in Thailand, the public has a right to know where the domestic Thai cases are, how many, and what efforts are being made to confine the outbreaks here!  The Government keeps banging on about only 19 confirmed cases, all bar one originating from people who have visited China, but nothing about it "spreading domestically", which implies a much bigger total!

 

[androokery]

25 minutes ago, JHolmesJr said:

would you trust a man called tedross adhanayom ghebreyesus?

I was OK with it until the yesus part

[DrTuner]

5 minutes ago, carstenp said:

It does in another paper we not allowed to comment.

 

She has not been in china????

Bangkok Post, you can say it but not link to it, they don't want traffic from TVF. Tanarak's quote there is even more disturbing, 'The country is in the stage of disease transmission'.

[FarFlungFalang]

2 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

No. Just find out where she stayed and why not where she visited. Would you like to volunteer to be the next one to stay in her hotel room? Your next step theory is stupid so knock it off. 

I would absolutely have no objections staying in the room she stayed in and possibly have already done so.I may also have come in contact with some of the people in my theory how would I know and why would I be worried about it?Why would I worry about something so totally beyond my control?

[Pravda]

41 minutes ago, johng said:

A Thai virus would never do such a thing (re Koh Tao murders)

 

and if it did, it would offer 500 baht and a wai

[spiekerjozef]

1 minute ago, graemeaylward said:

The Government keeps banging on about only 19 confirmed cases, all bar one originating from people who have visited China, but nothing about it "spreading domestically"

 

They sent most of them home so of course it is spreading.

[FarFlungFalang]

4 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

If the deputy director-general of Thai Dept of Disease Control is publicly stating that the virus is already spreading domestically in Thailand, the public has a right to know where the domestic Thai cases are,

Therein lies the problem the Thai public only have the right to do what they're bloody well told by people holding guns to their heads where also happens in every other country in the world.

[happyinthailand]

Thailand seems to have a static number of 19 Coronavirus people..... By the spread of it elsewhere, this would seem to be unrealistic. How can it be possibly true that a visitor from South Korea gets the virus but no Thai gets it? Far from restricting Chinese inbound tourism from China, Thailand has welcomed tourists from China and Coronavirus has only been partially resticted in Thailand by the actions of the Chinese government.  Thailand is in danger of really killing off their tourist industry by it laissez faire attitude towards the virus. It really is time for some decisive leadership. Action and transparency can still save the day.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The BKK Post just posted their version of this news, quoting a Thai health official, and saying the woman had NO history of China travel... But no source attribution for that particular detail was given.

 

The Post article also says the Thai health authorities are trying to get info from the Koreans on where exactly the woman was here, etc etc.

 

 

Edited February 4, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[CockneyGit]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

I think people should be made aware of her movements 

 

authorities in Thailand should be retracing exactly what she did when and where

That would make far too much sense!

[ThaiBunny]

Just now, happyinthailand said:

How can it be possibly true that a visitor from South Korea gets the virus but no Thai gets it?

Seriously? Because she had significant prolonged contact with Chinese tourists is one plausible explanation

[monkfish]

She must have bumped into one of those 19 people being held in quarantine of which 5 have been cured and released.

[RBOP]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

I think people should be made aware of her movements 

 

authorities in Thailand should be retracing exactly what she did when and where

Same for other 19 confirmed cases.

[SkyFax]

So Dr. Tanarak of the MOPH says in the BP that the Korean woman positive for the virus has not been to China even though the Korean department has said that they did not explicitly rule out a visit to China by the patient, and KCDC Director Jeong Eun-kyeong declined to comment further.

 

The folks on here like that one from the good Dr. Tanarak.

 

 But when Dr. Tanarak further states in the BP that the risk of contraction in Thailand is low and that the current confirmed case count as of TUES AM is 19, that brings out the boo-birds.