Provinces on top alert as people from Bangkok return to hometowns

By THE NATION

 

 

Many provinces are on high alert, screening people returning to their hometowns after the temporary closure of several venues in Bangkok, aiming to mitigate the escalating Covid-19 situation in their provinces.

 

Chiang Mai’s Doi Tao Tambon Administration chief Anurak Kongno said households have already been informed that they must notify officials once their family members return from Bangkok, and the returnees will have to undergo self-quarantine at home for 14 days.

 

The same rule applies to Thais returning from high-risk countries, he added.

 

 

Chiang Mai Airport director Nattawut Ta-inta said local and foreign passengers arriving at the airport are being screened and required to fill in certain information on a form as part of the measures to prevent Covid-19 from spreading in the city.

 

The Covid-19 emergency response centre in Nakon Ratchasima’s Pimai district has also informed families that those returning from Bangkok should go into self-isolation for 14 days.

 

Inter-provincial bus stations in a number of provinces including Khon Khaen and Krabi are screening passengers and tourists from Bangkok. After getting off the buses, passengers will need to undergo a thermoscan.

 

 

There are around 200 buses from Bangkok that arrive each day in Khon Khaen.

 

Besides the existing screening measures at the seaport and airport, Phuket on Sunday launched another screening checkpoint – at Tha Chatchai, Thalang District, a land access point to island.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384664

 

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Would have been better to stop people moving around the country and keep them in BKK. They could have set upset up food banks at the hundreds of temples that litter the city for people to be able to get free food and water. Well done, this was a well thought out plan and you expect them to self-quarantine for 14 days??? This government is pure and simply the most incompetent bunch of <deleted> wits that has ever had to deal with anything more challenging than decided what they will each for lunch each day.

Very badly handled, I agree.

 

Should have provided financial aid to all the daily wage earners etc in Bangkok and closed the bus stations and train stations.  This sort of mob scene is exactly what they cancelled songkran to avoid.

43 minutes ago, chowny77 said:

Would have been better to stop people moving around the country and keep them in BKK. They could have set upset up food banks at the hundreds of temples that litter the city for people to be able to get free food and water. Well done, this was a well thought out plan and you expect them to self-quarantine for 14 days??? This government is pure and simply the most incompetent bunch of <deleted> wits that has ever had to deal with anything more challenging than decided what they will each for lunch each day.

......and sleep where, for how long?

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

informed families that those returning from Bangkok should go into self-isolation for 14 days.

Yeah, but then it´s no problem. That will work fine. Have faith!

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

Provinces on top alert

is that top alert or tip top alert?  because there is a difference.

22 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

......and sleep where, for how long?

Where they already sleep and get those tight fisted money grabbing bar owners and massage parlour owners to put there hands in there pockets for a change. Having to pay owners for having a day off...you no work work so pay me 300 baht for having a day off....unreal.

2 minutes ago, keithsimmonds said:

Where they already sleep and get those tight fisted money grabbing bar owners and massage parlour owners to put there hands in there pockets for a change. Having to pay owners for having a day off...you no work work so pay me 300 baht for having a day off....unreal.

Trouble is all this should have been thought out before the mass exodus. Whatever measures they consider now are too late. Most are home or En route. 
This decision to shutdown BKK so quick without any plan B will prove to be one of the worst so far. Hard to believe no one thought of the consequences but then again .....

 

 

Many may be carrying more than the virus back to their hometown.  Could result in an outbreak of other diseases in the next few months...

I suspect that "top alert" means nothing in practice. 

53 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

......and sleep where, for how long?

think of all those empty marbled Temple floor expanses! 

 

 

or use them as makeshift M.A.S.H. hospitals

 

 

at least no one would be lying in squalor...

 

1 minute ago, tifino said:

think of all those empty marbled Temple floor expanses! 

 

 

or use them as makeshift M.A.S.H. hospitals

 

 

at least no one would be lying in squalor...

 

Great idea. Shame no one in office suggested it. 

8 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

I suspect that "top alert" means nothing in practice. 

Exactly.

 

One woman in our village came back yesterday evening from BKK and today she was walking around and eating at the noodle shop without a mask and she hadn't been contacted by anyone to stay at home or get checked by Doctors.

 

With all these people coming back from BKK this will be getting worse very soon I am afraid too say.

there's also the dhammakaya flying saucer... notice all the 1000s of monks on it?... in that they are kept widely spaced apart!

16 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Many may be carrying more than the virus back to their hometown.  Could result in an outbreak of other diseases in the next few months...

I have made it a point to glove up recently, so can't blame it on me.

12 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Exactly.

 

One woman in our village came back yesterday evening from BKK and today she was walking around and eating at the noodle shop without a mask and she hadn't been contacted by anyone to stay at home or get checked by Doctors.

 

With all these people coming back from BKK this will be getting worse very soon I am afraid too say.

Contact your Pu Yai ASAP. Your wife can do it. He will thank you for doing so.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

 

Many provinces are on high alert, screening people returning to their hometowns after the temporary closure of several venues in Bangkok, aiming to mitigate the escalating Covid-19 situation in their provinces

200 buses a day just to Khon Khan from Bangkok .. Many times as soon as folk disembark it's back to the village , town or city to catch up on family and friends so already scenarios exist whereby a lot could've have been exposed to potential carrier's within hours of returnee's stepping off that bus .. 

Self isolation .! That requires a lot of self discipline .. A quality not noted to be in great abundance and if returnee's can't grasp that then they could be looking into the abyss if it really ignites as other countries have found .. 

I wonder how many empty hotel rooms and apartments for tourists will be turned into emergency hospital accommodation?

How many defence force medical personel available if required?

 

29 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I have made it a point to glove up recently, so can't blame it on me.

It is difficult to get into too much trouble keeping a distance of 6' apart...????

1 hour ago, thequietman said:

Contact your Pu Yai ASAP. Your wife can do it. He will thank you for doing so.

 

Thx for the advice, but our Pu Yai is one of the reasons we are building a house somewhere else and thus moving out of the village as soon as the house is finished. And fortunately we can move, many villagers can’t.

 

I'd really love to know what 'top alert' REALLY means??  Anyone?????

I was watching the report about travellers at Morchit bus station on morning TV.  Packed in like sardines in a tin!   Then a bit later they had signs on every second seat re social distancing and the steeple followed the instructions.   It struck me then that Thais will follow instructions if they are clearly laid out in front of them and someone is watching  otherwise it's Raffertys rules! 

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Very badly handled, I agree.

 

Should have provided financial aid to all the daily wage earners etc in Bangkok and closed the bus stations and train stations.  This sort of mob scene is exactly what they cancelled songkran to avoid.

That would never work, Sheryl. 

People gravitate to their homes. 

Imagine the chaos if the bus stations were closed? 

2 hours ago, Tayaout said:

I suspect that "top alert" means nothing in practice. 

It definitely has that kind of history.Like waiting for community spread before implementing shut downs like every other country that watched China explode and left nearly every border on the whole planet open. 

10 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

That would never work, Sheryl. 

People gravitate to their homes. 

Imagine the chaos if the bus stations were closed? 

Correct,

 

it would be a mad exodus but then by car or whatever vehicle they can find

Why is that farang running to them in a black long sleeved jacket? Is it so cold in Kon Kaen?

 

4 hours ago, chowny77 said:

This government is pure and simply the most incompetent bunch of <deleted> wits that has ever had to deal with anything more challenging than decided what they will each for lunch each day.

I actually have to agree with you on this. They have no right to take an election and then masquerade as top hoo dee doo officials. Incompetent is the best word I have for the Top guy to the Health Minister to the entire complete rest of all of them. Self absorbed un-intellectual and incapable to run a government Nincomp*o*s. 

5 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Should have provided financial aid to all the daily wage earners etc in Bangkok and closed the bus stations and train stations.  This sort of mob scene is exactly what they cancelled songkran to avoid.

Should haves and could haves! at the end of the day there just empty words! This is not a "nanny" state, when have they ever taken care of the masses, why would they change. people had expectations worldwide that their "government" would take care off them! Have they?

Hopefully "when" this is over, people will be seeing "government" & the corporate's they represent in a realistic light and they reset their expectations accordingly!

Nanny states are operated to suck people in, they use the nonsense they promote to keep people obedient!

Amazing how now they are all able to find trillions of dollars to pump into economy's, yet it was ok for health systems to crumble & the poor barely survive previously, there was no money available ????

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I wonder how many empty hotel rooms and apartments for tourists will be turned into emergency hospital accommodation?

Based on how they treated the returnees from Korea, none!

Recall, they were given tents in a warehouse, despite there being lots of alternatives!

The sick here are sent home to die, that's not going to change! ???? 

There is little or no expectation of any 14 day quarantine, the epicentre has been cleared and now its  every man woman and child for themselves.