Returning Thais sent to air force quarantine

[snoop1130]

Returning Thais sent to air force quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

Thais who returned from Indonesia on Thursday (April 2) were whisked straight into new quarantine facilities at the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF)’s flying school in Nakhon Pathom province, just north of Bangkok.

 

Fifty-five passengers from Garuda Indonesia flight GA868 were screened for Covid-19 at Suvarnabhumi Airport before arriving at the flying school guest house in Kamphaeng Saen district at 11pm. The group comprises 21 men and 34 women.

 

The flying school and Public Health Ministry are overseeing the quarantine facility to ensure its occupants are kept isolated and properly cared for.

 

Seventeen more Thais will be sent there on Friday (April 3) as a precaution, after they presented with fever at Suvarnabhumi’s International Communicable Diseases Control Checkpoint but tested negative for Covid-19.

 

Meanwhile, the Defence Ministry has ordered the Army to prepare military hospitals and field hospitals to cope with the worsening Covid-19 situation.

 

“The Royal Thai Air Force is providing support to medical facilities and quarantine areas at Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital, Royal Thai Air Force Hospital (Sikan), Chandrubeksa Hospital, guest house at the Flying School in Kamphaeng Saen, Nakhon Pathom province, and the Sai Lom Building at Wing 5 in Prachuap Khiri Khan,” said an official.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385354

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-03

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[Roy Baht]

Returning Thais sent to air force quarantine, scream "This is xenophobia!" then write long screeds on thaivisa forum about the mistreatment of Westerners... Oops! It was Thais! 

[gunderhill]

4 hours ago, Roy Baht said:

Returning Thais sent to air force quarantine, scream "This is xenophobia!" then write long screeds on thaivisa forum about the mistreatment of Westerners... Oops! It was Thais! 

Speak up a  bit why don't you,  of  course they could  have done the same with the Korean exodus, but didn't.

[kingstonkid]

This is what should have happened in the beginning.  Every other country has been doing it.  It makes sense and stops the worrying of the thais that can not think LOL

[PETERTHEEATER]

 ........in Nakhon Pathom province, just north of Bangkok.

 

Another Thai reporter who lacks knowledge of national geography! Try 50 kms WEST. The RTAF Flying Training School is at Kampheng Saen about 70 kms NW of Bangkok.

 

Read no further......

[bluedoc]

11 hours ago, Roy Baht said:

Returning Thais sent to air force quarantine, scream "This is xenophobia!" then write long screeds on thaivisa forum about the mistreatment of Westerners... Oops! It was Thais! 

Anyone arriving on a flight that took off before the order came into effect will need to be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival in Thailand, the order said.

 

It came just hours after a commotion at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport when more than 100 Thai nationals arrived on different flights on Friday, a Thai immigration officer told Reuters.

 

"A public health officer allowed them to quarantine themselves at home. There was a commotion because they said they weren't aware they had to be put in a state quarantine," the officer said.

[bluedoc]

This was in the same newspaper. So where did they go, home or quarantine. ????

Anyone arriving on a flight that took off before the order came into effect will need to be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival in Thailand, the order said.

 

It came just hours after a commotion at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport when more than 100 Thai nationals arrived on different flights on Friday, a Thai immigration officer told Reuters.

 

"A public health officer allowed them to quarantine themselves at home. There was a commotion because they said they weren't aware they had to be put in a state quarantine," the officer said.