1,716 illegal workers return from South Korea in 8 days

By THE NATION

 

 

The number of illegal labourers, called “phi noi”, who returned from South Korea from March 2 to 9 reached 1,716, the Immigration Bureau reported today (March 10).

 

South Korea was listed in a Public Health Ministry announcement in the Royal Gazette earlier this month along with China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Italy and Iran as high-risk countries of Covid-19 infection.

 

Among the 1,716 returnees, 1,284 were ordered to undergo self-quarantine at their residences, while 537 were taken to quarantine facilities specified by the government and will remain there for 14 days. Seventy-five returnees have displayed symptoms similar to Covid-19, such as fever, while 58 were in the clear and 17 are awaiting test results.

 

On Monday alone, 216 returnees went through three airports in Thailand. Two were found to have high fever and sent to Mahidol University’s Ramathibodi Hospital for a test.

 

The South Korean government has announced that foreigners who have overstayed their visas could report to local immigration offices to express their willingness to leave the country by June 30 and they will not be fined or prohibited from re-entering. According to the Labour Ministry, more than 5,000 have expressed their willingness to leave. The total number of “phi noi” in South Korea could be as high as 150,000.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383778

 

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i  demand  a  hotline  to  grass  these  lowlifes up, and  a  smartcar

I would have thought that the South Koreans have more accurate records of who is in their country for how long.

 

Well there are allegedly much higher numbers now.

I wonder if their figures are truthful, or are the result caused by the loss of face when about eighty escaped from a 'secure location' at the airport.

I was expecting to read 'both of the returnees are in quarantine.'

Only 80 run away out of 1716, no big deal none of the illegal workers had virus.

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Is TAT in charge of tallying the numbers?

 

 

After reading, and seeing the photos, about the quarantine conditions in Buriram I'd probably do a runner too?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 10, 20206 yr by mtls2005

15 hours ago, webfact said:

Seventy-five returnees have displayed symptoms similar to Covid-19

Even if they all had it, I expect the covid figures here would rise by 2

Glad to see that the BMW smart cars are also coming to good use for the South Korean immigration then .......... 

15 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Is TAT in charge of tallying the numbers?

 

 

After reading, and seeing the photos, about the quarantine conditions in Buriram I'd probably do a runner too?

 

 

 

 

Check out video of UK couple currently in Hanoi "hospital". Flight from London to Hanoi where someone was positive to covid 19.

Not nice.

15 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Only 80 run away out of 1716, no big deal none of the illegal workers had virus.

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certainly ;
but do not forget that even without apparent symptoms you can transmit this covid-19 to anyone who will approach within 2 meters without forgetting that the incubation period is not 14 days but 23 and may even be 27 days.

It will be enough for only one to be a carrier without knowing it and it will infect all the people he meets; and these same people will do the same ...

20 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Only 80 run away out of 1716, no big deal none of the illegal workers had virus.

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Apparently, Thai people can only get the virus from caucasians

Slightly off/on topic, i read a thai man did a runner from a virus s

check in Zimbabwe, is what thai people are taught in school, the first sign if trouble, RUN.

I think over the next few months there will be a lot of runners.

 

SELF SELF SELF.

Thailand cannot even keep its returning workers incheck, but

it wants to put a 14 day quarantine on visitors, that is another nail in

the tourism, or what is left of it. Keep up the great work, ya bynch of monkeys.

Geezer