Thailand has three new coronavirus cases, for total of 40 -ministry official

[FarFlungFalang]

I saw a video of a British gentleman recovering in a Japanese hospital after being infected on the cruise ship,he was having lots of tests.He said he had just had another test that day and would know the results of that test the next day.Thailand is supposed to be the most prepared country in Asia for this type of situation so why does it take Thailand so long to get results? 

[aussienam]

32 minutes ago, sameasb4 said:

keep up the pretense i am booked on a flight out of here next month I am even giving up my rented condo have 3 months on lease left putting my gear in storage not sure if there will be flights after songkran when i am due back i guess they want to keep the lid on any epidemic till songkran is over

The way it is going, be prepared for  your destination country or airline banning you from going there/leaving Thailand. 

[FarFlungFalang]

9 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Here's a crazy idea - imprison him after he's recovered (that's if he does). I assumed that's what the poster meant anyway. 

Of course you are correct and I have edited my post with an apology.Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious me.My bad.

[aussienam]

26 minutes ago, dhind1 said:

There should be a fine for not revealing his travel destination. Also he should be held accountable for the costs of quarantine for anyone involved with him. But, I will be surprised if it happens. 

Other countries have offences for inflicting actual and grievous bodily diseases.  Wondering if Thailand had such offences listed in its criminal code?

[aussienam]

15 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Yes excellent idea throw in gaol!That teach him for being a super spreader!Maybe have a little think about the consequences of putting him in gaol.My apologies for jumping the gun of course he could be imprisoned after he recovers as I realised after posting and also being notified by another poster. 

 

The obvious common sense approach and protocol by prison staff by anyone arrested and imprisoned with Covid 19 would be have then placed under hospital guard in the designated quarantine section.  Not literally throwing them in gaol infecting other inmates and staff.  

[SkyFax]

8 minutes ago, aussienam said:

Other countries have offences for inflicting actual and grievous bodily diseases.  Wondering if Thailand had such offences listed in its criminal code?

And this story posted on ThaiVisa just yesterday brought out the usual boo-birds:

 

Thailand to implement measures to discourage COVID-19 “Super Spreader”

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The National Communicable Disease Committee’s decision to declare COVID-19 the nation’s 14th dangerous communicable disease will empower officials to impose stricter preventative measures against COVID-19 and will discourage those infected from becoming “Super Spreaders.”

... These measures may include fines and jail terms. ... The term “Super Spreader” was used by South Korean medical officers to describe a patient who refused to be tested for COVID-19, despite having shown symptoms. 

[christophe75]

Hold your horses.

 

Too easy to accuse the old man.

 

I thought... people with pneumonia... EVEN WITHOUT TRAVEL HISTORY... were supposed to be tested, at least in big urban centers (BKK, Chiang Mai etc.).

 

This what the authorities said...

 

Now it's time to open the "parachute", as usal, so the authorities throw him under the bus.

 

Hidding their own responsabilities.

 

Because, they start to xxxx in their pants...

 

[DrTuner]

'Only after a doctor tested him again and he was probed, he finally admitted that he had visited a high-risk country.'

 

Must've been some nasty probe.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

I wonder what "high risk" country the patient visited? Thailand?

 

Seems to be Japan... though the article is pretty opaque about that...

 

After repeating "high risk country" several times without actually naming the country, the article finally says...

 

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Meanwhile, Thanachart Bank said it was closing its branch in Don Mueang district as the son of this man worked there. The son said that his father had returned from Japan along with a group tourists on February 20.

 

 

[DrTuner]

45 minutes ago, Pedigree said:

Very selfish!

People want to drag others with them to the grave. Welly bad, na!

Well, given that you would probably be placed in a government hospital rife with all sorts of pathogens for the quarantine, I can sort of understand the hesitation. But there's no excuse for not self-quarantining.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 minutes ago, aussienam said:

The obvious common sense approach and protocol by prison staff by anyone arrested and imprisoned with Covid 19 would be have then placed under hospital guard in the designated quarantine section.  Not literally throwing them in gaol infecting other inmates and staff.  

 

Since when does "obvious common sense" ever apply here?

 

[Golden Triangle]

11 minutes ago, aussienam said:

The obvious common sense approach and protocol by prison staff by anyone arrested and imprisoned with Covid 19 would be have then placed under hospital guard in the designated quarantine section.  Not literally throwing them in gaol infecting other inmates and staff.  

The last thing anyone wants is to be thrown into a Thai prison medical facility, you go in them you usually don't come out alive, they are the pits to say the least.

[Forza2002]

The Govt. must be getting some flak from WHO/UN due to the low number of reported cases of the virus in Thailand. Hard to believe such a low number given all the Chinese in Thailand, hardly anybody is wearing masks in Chiang Mai where I live, very few shops have hand gel. Waste of time the Govt. spouting about how they are in control with various preventative measures. Asking a Thai to follow rules is a complete waste of time in lawless Thailand.

 

I had a followup appointment at a well known International hospital yesterday and couldn't believe that nobody was checking peoples temperatures entering and exiting the hospital. Its an easy thing to do given the limited number of entry/exits. I observed that many of the nurses, assistants weren't wearing masks. I walked out after 5 minutes, way to many Chinese hanging around for my liking. Next to airports, hospitals have got to be a high risk area for catching the virus?

[mtls2005]

This is the Don Muang cluster revealed on Thai social media a few days ago. Couldn't comment on it until today's MoPH presser.

 

In this family, one school is impacted and one bank branch. Both closed.

 

Schools closed all week in Bangkok, because of air pollution, but some conjecture about real reason.

 

New TAT slogan, come for the air pollution, stay for the virus. In the meantime half expecting locusts soon.

 

 

[potless]

Isnt it reassuring to know how effective the airport screening is working?

[NCC1701A]

what about you TV people?

 

there will be a time in the near future when mandatory isolation will be enforced in Thailand. 

are you going to go to the hospital with flu symptoms to be tested positive and possibly be put into isolation ward?

perhaps for two weeks and then be handed a huge hospital bill. 

or are you going to tough it out at home and hope it does not crash your lungs?

 

[Forza2002]

Could the smog be killing the virus and that's why the positive case numbers are so low in Thailand? It can't be just the heat because Singapore is hotter, more humid than Thailand an it currently has 90 odd confirmed cases...

[mtls2005]

Just now, Forza2002 said:

Could the smog be killing the virus

 

Have you looked at the AQI in Wuhan?

 

And how would smog kill a virus?

[Forza2002]

If there is a lack of testing centers for corona virus that would explain why the number of positive cases are so low. I'm sure that a lot of people wouldn't be in a hurry to go to the local govt. hospital for fear of being isolated with a bunch of other potential carriers...

[Bkkthebest]

How do I put it.. That Thai is very immature or do most Thais behave like this?  That Thai who lied have to be arrested. 

[Forza2002]

3 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Have you looked at the AQI in Wuhan?

 

And how would smog kill a virus?

Wuhan is not hot like Thailand. Thais are being are led to believe that the virus is not flourishing in Thailand due to the heat. 

[DrTuner]

10 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

what about you TV people?

 

there will be a time in the near future when mandatory isolation will be enforced in Thailand. 

are you going to go to the hospital with flu symptoms to be tested positive and possibly be put into isolation ward?

perhaps for two weeks and then be handed a huge hospital bill. 

or are you going to tough it out at home and hope it does not crash your lungs?

Home isolation, I'm lucky enough to have an extra house to be used as isolation ward. Hospital? Vade retro, satana!

[Deli]

Remember guys: everything 100 % under control !

[jollyhangmon]

1 hour ago, muratremix said:

is there a simple blood test to get ourselves tested?

 

Apparently Europe tests in 2 steps, first is a quicktest of saliva, if postive or unclear a blood test is conducted ... dunno if that's a 'simple' one or how they go about it here in TH ... 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

52 minutes ago, dhind1 said:

There should be a fine for not revealing his travel destination. Also he should be held accountable for the costs of quarantine for anyone involved with him. But, I will be surprised if it happens. 

 

There are quite a few things that seem questionable in this whole thing...

 

1. He wouldn't have had to "reveal" his travel destination. The guy was on a trip to Japan, and his passport would have been stamped accordingly, and should/would have been noted as that upon his return to Thailand.

 

2. You would think, by this point in the evolution of things, that a Thai guy returning from Japan would have been subjected to health screening upon arrival at whatever Thai airport he returned to... And yet apparently, he either wasn't screened or was screened and not detected at the time.  And the news reports seem to shed no light on that issue.

 

 

[finewine]

What about Singapore?  Do you trust their figures?

 

Their total is now 91 (58 discharged free of virus), with very few new cases in the past week.

 

Viruses do not like heat.   Maybe that is why there are so few reported cases in Thailand.

[johndudorn]

50 minutes ago, aussienam said:

The way it is going, be prepared for  your destination country or airline banning you from going there/leaving Thailand. 

That is my concern as well. Leave on the 5th of March for the US... More importantly, the flight in a metal tube with recycled air and hours waiting in various airports.

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, muratremix said:

is there a simple blood test to get ourselves tested?

No. Diagnosis is done by RT-PCR in a level 2 biolab. https://www.who.int/publications-detail/disease-commodity-package---novel-coronavirus-(ncov)

 

There are two WHO reference labs in Thailand and I was surprised to find Chula is not one of them, despite having the capability:

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-appointed-2019-ncov-referral-laboratories-7-february-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=c3fa3ec3_4

 

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6 Thailand Nonthaburi National Institute of Health, Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health
7 Thailand Bangkok Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science

Both labs are under government control.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

found a patient, suspected of being infected, who had avoided the screening process after returning from the high-risk area.

 

And how exactly did the guy manage to do that, presumably upon his return to Thailand on a flight from Japan??? 

 

Incoming airport passengers are being screened, right? Everything is under control, right???

 

I guess the Thai media don't want to ask too many inconvenient questions here...

 

[chrisinth]

10 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

I walked out after 5 minutes, way to many Chinese hanging around for my liking. Next to airports, hospitals have got to be a high risk area for catching the virus?

My own personal thoughts on this focus on Chinese nationals is that at this stage of the game, it is wrong.

 

This is a virus we are talking about people, they don't care what country you originate from.

 

If you are in a hospital waiting to see the doctor and there are Chinese present, try not to think of the immediate area but rather how many potential victims have been in contact with them on their journey to the hospital. Then expand and think of the potential victims that have in some way been in contact in whatever way and who they will pass it onto. Of any nationality.

 

Scary eh? This is how viruses work. Given the above (hypothetical) example, I have to question how Thailand has only 40 reported cases after all this time. In fact looking at it from another angle, I would also question how dangerous it is to a normal healthy person and how many have just shrugged off the symptoms.