Virus victim on train had just returned from India

By THE NATION

 

 

A 57-year-old Thai man found dead on a Bangkok-Narathiwat on Tuesday (March 31) had just returned from India, initial investigations show.

 

“The deceased had participated in a Dawah [Muslim missionary] activity in India in February, and before that he had been to Pakistan,” said Preecha Nuannoi, district chief of Su-Ngai Kolok in Narathiwat province, on Thursday (April 2).

 

“He was a local of Su-Ngai Kolok and had boarded the train from Bangkok on March 30 to return home. However, he was found dead when the train made a rest stop at Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thap Sakae district.”

 

Tests on the body at Songkhla hospital came back positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.

 

Preecha added that Narathiwat public health authorities had sent officials to interview and test the victim’s family members and also disinfect his home.

 

The body of the deceased was not sent to Narathiwat but instead buried on April 1 at an Islamic cemetery in Thap Sakae district, where the family members joined the ceremony.

 

The State Railway of Thailand announced it had disinfected and cleaned the train thoroughly. Eight train staff were ordered home for 14 days of self-quarantine, while a list of about 10 passengers who may have come into close contact with the victim was sent to the Public Health Ministry.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385282

 

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Despite all the warnings, despite appeals from the PM, the police, members of this community in India have continued to gather at mosques to pray, to study. The Tablighi mosque in Delhi alone has infected thousands. There are still others who refuse to undergo testing on account of their faith.

According to other reports police are looking for a person he spat at caught on CCTV 

1 hour ago, captpkapoor said:

Despite all the warnings, despite appeals from the PM, the police, members of this community in India have continued to gather at mosques to pray, to study. The Tablighi mosque in Delhi alone has infected thousands. There are still others who refuse to undergo testing on account of their faith.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/city/delhi/covid-19-patients-linked-with-markaz-event-objecting-to-testing-lnjpn-medical-director/videoshow/74954104.cms

1 hour ago, captpkapoor said:

Despite all the warnings, despite appeals from the PM, the police, members of this community in India have continued to gather at mosques to pray, to study. The Tablighi mosque in Delhi alone has infected thousands. There are still others who refuse to undergo testing on account of their faith.

Maybe their faith is stronger than the virus... time will tell.

The xenophobia is getting worse, viruses don’t care about passports, 5 months of spreading means millions are lightly infected and thousands will need hospital

treatment

7 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Maybe their faith is stronger than the virus... time will tell.

Not thinking so.....if one has already died here on his way home.  Go forth and infect the millions you can......National Security may be an understatement now as more groups now turn people into human virus machines to spread it......and thats just based upon beliefs and values of no testing...

According to the other newspaper we cannot quote he was returning home from Pakistan and not India.

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“The deceased had participated in a Dawah [Muslim missionary] activity in India in February, and before that he had been to Pakistan,”

A little old for 'training', but one never knows. His legacy will live on, for a while. 

 

3 hours ago, davemos said:

According to other reports police are looking for a person he spat at caught on CCTV 

Really?? That's a cold (or no) hearted.

Anti-vaxxer same-same.  God told me not to do it.

whole scenario was like something out of a Korean horror movies I've seen..

he was a pakistani muslim spending his last moments spitting on innocent faces and spreading it wherever he could, hardly a victim

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8179213/Man-infected-coronavirus-dies-spitting-rail-passenger-Thailand.html