70-80 Thai workers returning from South Korea 'have fled quarantine'

[Jonathan Fairfield]

70-80 Thai workers returning from South Korea 'have fled quarantine'

 

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Deputy Health Minister Satit Pitutecha said on Saturday (Mar 7) that all Thais returning from South Korea from Sunday (8 March) will be transferred to the Sattahip Army Base in Chonburi province, to screen for Covid-19 symptoms. Those having fever will be sent to a hospital.

 

The measures also apply to foreigners, who could be shifted to a hotel if they are in good health. 

 

The returning Thai labourers will be in quarantine at Sattahip Army house.

 

Satit admitted that 200 Thai labourers had arrived. Some of them were resisting the screening measure from the health officers and some 70-80 had fled.

 

The Department of Disease Control has checked their travel history in order to bring them back to quarantine and punish them under the Disease Control Act.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383619

 

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[tifino]

 

so that means 1100 + 70~80 so far...?

 

 

that '1178' phone number choice is now starting to make sense!!

Edited March 8, 2020 by tifino

[J Town]

Who didn't see THAT coming? LOL!

[bangkokfrog]

Ha ha. They are conditioned to do this (flee) from the moment they get their drivers license.

Edited March 8, 2020 by bangkokfrog

[tifino]

1 minute ago, bangkokfrog said:

Come on, they are conditioned to do that (flee) from the moment they get their drivers license.

the inbuilt Flee, Not Fight response - anything to 'keep their Private' from others...

[Justgrazing]

16 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Satit admitted that 200 Thai labourers had arrived. Some of them were resisting the screening measure from the health officers and some 70-80 had fled

A lot of Thai's don't do responsibility hence the war-zone road death toll so it would come as no surprise that some returning to Thailand have done a runner .. These actions will help propagates CV19 .. Non compliance in the process needed to try and keep this in check is the signature of the selfish and irresponsible .. 

Edited March 8, 2020 by Justgrazing
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[Tingtong2mut]

Its like the keystone cops or comedy capers here. Never a dull moment ????????

[PatOngo]

17 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

some 70-80 had fled.

Luckily, they are keeping precise figures! ????

[spiekerjozef]

20 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The Department of Disease Control has checked their travel history in order to bring them back to quarantine and punish them under the Disease Control Act.

20 baht fine...

[Titan1962]

It’s the same as telling people the must wear a motorcycle helmet,they must have a drivers license.

Followed to law 100%.

[PatOngo]

28 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

and some 70-80 had fled.

Like a drunk bus driver after an accident!

[ChouDoufu]

35 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

...returning from South Korea from Sunday (8 March) will be transferred to the Sattahip Army Base in Chonburi province, to screen for Covid-19 symptoms. Those having fever will be sent to a hospital.

oh, and those without fever...coming from a pandemic hotspot where the unreliable tests often show false negatives, and where the hosts become infectious before showing symptoms.........will be released into the general population(*).

 

just in time for water wars.

 

ah, well, no worries.  100% under control.

 

 

(*) unless those without symptoms will be kept in quarantine for 14 days.  maybe i misread?

Edited March 8, 2020 by ChouDoufu

[fforest1]

Well folks if voluntary quarantine is not working you don't need to be Einstein to see what comes next......Mandatory involuntary quarantine.......And not just for the Thais, for everybody from the high risk countries....  

Edited March 8, 2020 by fforest1

[Skallywag]

So, only believe the Thai health minister when he has bad news, not when good news is reported?

[zydeco]

46 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The Department of Disease Control has checked their travel history in order to bring them back to quarantine and punish them under the Disease Control Act.

Blood from a turnip.

[zydeco]

5 minutes ago, fforest1 said:

Well folks if voluntary quarantine is not working you don't need to be Einstein to see what comes next......Mandatory involuntary quarantine.......And not just for the Thais, for everybody from the high risk countries....  

It'll never happen here. They may pass a law, but it will be unenforceable. Like herding cats.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

26 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

20 baht fine...

 

AFAIK, the police who caught up with the Korea returning woman in CM who ignored the self quarantine and then went out on the town, posting photos to her social media, wasn't fined at all when they finally caught up with her. Instead, the report said, she apologized for her "ignorance" and promised to do better.  They really know how to bring down the hammer on law breakers here... 

 

[ukrules]

You almost couldn't make it up could you, about to be quarantined then they simply walk away.

 

Nice to see everyone involved is doing a half assed job, I assume this applies to everyone related to this incident.

[4MyEgo]

45 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

20 baht fine...

Don't forget the wai...

 

Do this lot really think they can control their own selfish kind, oh my Buddha ????

Edited March 8, 2020 by 4MyEgo

[sirineou]

I see a lot of Mortality  Rate statistics reported and cited.

    It is important to know, that no one really knows what the mortality rates are and will not know until the dust has settled .

 

All deaths are investigated as to "cause of death" but not all illnesses are investigated.

So it is fair to assume that a lot of mild cases do not even require treatment so are not reported and counted, and that do to a shortage in test kits and political reasons , a lot of more severe cases are not tested, ( test kit availability varies for country to country) .

  I am willing to bet that when the dust settles the mortality rate will be somewhere between 1-1.5%  remove from that the elderly with underlying  medical conditions, and the mortality rate decreases considerably. 

  So, Not time to panic yet. 

 

[Chivas]

Comedy Gold......as per normal

[Yinn]

27 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

YINN, do you really believe your own goverment?

 

You can't be that naive, sorry. Please read statistics made by other countries and see if that fits. 

 

You call the one post a Thai bashing post, but at the same time post a many countries bashing photo and text?

 

Where did  you see that infected people fled from a particular place in one of these countries?

 

  Perhaps, I've missed it. 

 

Please elaborate. 

 

 

How many people you know die from coronavirus or pneumonia in thailand last two month? 

Nobody right? 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Deputy Health Minister Satit Pitutecha said on Saturday (Mar 7) that all Thais returning from South Korea from Sunday (8 March) will be transferred to the Sattahip Army Base in Chonburi province, to screen for Covid-19 symptoms. Those having fever will be sent to a hospital.

 

The measures also apply to foreigners, who could be shifted to a hotel if they are in good health. 

 

The returning Thai labourers will be in quarantine at Sattahip Army house.

 

There have been SO MANY announcements and versions of the quarantine issue for Thais and/or foreigners arriving from high-risk countries in the past week+, that at this point, I have ZERO idea what they actually think they're doing.

 

 And that's before you even get to the also ever-present question here of -- do they actually end up doing what they promised to do in the first place...

[transam]

2 minutes ago, Yinn said:

How many people you know die from coronavirus or pneumonia in thailand last two month? 

Nobody right? 

How do you know...?

[Yinn]

29 minutes ago, ukrules said:

You almost couldn't make it up could you, about to be quarantined then they simply walk away.

 

Nice to see everyone involved is doing a half assed job, I assume this applies to everyone related to this incident.

Every country have selfish idiot. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-japan-bar-crawl-spread-gamagori-a9384541.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/flabbergasted-melbourne-doctor-with-coronavirus-symptoms-continued-seeing-patients

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/03/07/trumps-lies-about-the-coronavirus-raise-the-risk-of-a-recession/#4c50c4fb6eb2

 

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/thai-public-health-minister-says-that-westerners-farangs-should-be-expelled-from-thailand-for-not-wearing-mask

 

 

[jollyhangmon]

6 minutes ago, Yinn said:

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/thai-public-health-minister-says-that-westerners-farangs-should-be-expelled-from-thailand-for-not-wearing-mask

 

... Jesses, (still) quoting Ai Anutin The Clown really says it about all ...

 

Dismissed.

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by jollyhangmon

[metisdead]

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[BobbyL]

As usual here, there is a general lack of responsibility in all classes of Thailand. The driving, the motorbikes without helmets, the lax health and safety standards etc etc etc. 

 

Incredible that you then get ministers like Anutin kicking off about foreign tourists here when a large percent of Thai people don't follow any rules at all. The only rule people do seem to 'follow' should have been abolished generations ago. 

[Oziex1]

Call it what you like, I call it a rational fear of the Thai authority corrupt and inefficient. 

 

The Thai medical personnel may be ok, but the mechanism that brings people to quarantine stations? 

[transam]

7 minutes ago, Yinn said:

I know nobody myself.

How many Tran Sam know? Zero? Or not? 

 

ps. The coronavirus very danger for the elderly. Be careful my good friend.

Correct, you know nobody yourself, then stop spouting it...........????