Govt asks employers to watch foreign workers for Covid-19 symptoms

By The Nation

 

Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.

 

Employers have been urged to keep a close eye on foreign workers for Covid-19 symptoms, following a spike in new cases among illegal immigrants in Songkhla province on Saturday.

 

Authorities have been proactive in conducting tests but the best precaution is for employers to devise measures at factories and report to authorities if they find suspected Covid-19 cases, Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Sunday (April 26).

 

He was responding to concerns of the virus spreading among foreign workers expressed by a resident in Samut Sakhon province, home to a large number of migrant workers.

 

Taweesin referred to the finding of an active case by health authorities, which led to the discovery that 42 immigrants at the detention centre were infected with the novel coronavirus.

 

Thailand saw a sudden spurt in Covid-19 patients with 53 new cases on Saturday, according to Taweesin who holds a daily briefing on the Covid-19 situation in the country.

 

Of the 53 new cases, 42 are illegal immigrants at the Songkhla Immigrant Detention Centre at the Sadao checkpoint bordering Malaysia in Songkhla province, seven in Yala, two in Bangkok, one in Chonburi and one in Phuket.

 

Of the 42 illegal immigrants, 34 are from Myanmar, three are Vietnamese, two are Malaysian and one each from Yemen, Cambodia and India. Most of the illegal immigrants at the Songkhla detention centre are Rohingya. Thai authorities have assured local people that these immigrants are not allowed to go outside the detention centre so they will not spread the virus to local people.

 

Taweesin said Thailand will learn lessons from Singapore in zooming in on migrant workers who have contracted Covid-19.

 

According to Thai authorities, there are about 10 detention centres around border provinces as well as in Bangkok. Immigration officials have to reorganise management of detentions in order to prevent those who lived in crowded facilities from contacting with virus, Taweesin said.

 

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9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Taweesin referred to the finding of an active case by health authorities, which led to the discovery that 42 immigrants at the detention centre were infected with the novel coronavirus.

This is what happens when you lock people up in medieval conditions.

 

If they learn the lesson from this incident then it won't happen again at the others, will it?

 

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

Authorities have been proactive in conducting tests but

You can stop reading.

Govt asks employers to watch foreign all workers for Covid-19 symptoms

 

Just an idea.

 

 

Edited April 26, 20206 yr by Chelseafan

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He was responding to concerns of the virus spreading among foreign workers expressed by a resident in Samut Sakhon province, home to a large number of migrant workers.

'expressed by a resident' How kind of Dr Taweesin to do all this after only one person mentioned this.

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

If they learn the lesson

Have they ever?

Should we have a "Star of David" sown on to our clothing as well???  ????

6 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Should we have a "Star of David" sown on to our clothing as well???  ????

Read the article ???? it is a good start

47 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Should we have a "Star of David" sown on to our clothing as well???  ????

Only if you want it to grow.

I tell all my foreign friends to watch out for ties for symptoms of the virus TIT

Of course it is only the foreign workers who may be showing symptoms. How about employers just monitor ALL STAFF. 

Xenophobia and racist again..... 

1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

I tell all my foreign friends to watch out for ties for symptoms of the virus TIT

Do "ties" get symptoms?

... but WHO watches the bosses?

Thais, obviously, don't get this virus and if they do it's from a farang!  deep down they are deeply nationalistic and racist 

But but but...

 

How will they know the locals from the foreigners...? The foreigners blend in so seamlessly..

 

 

maybe he should be watching his own people too

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2020/04/08/surge-in-covid-19-infections-linked-to-southern-muslim-pilgrimage/

2 hours ago, BobBKK said:

Thais, obviously, don't get this virus and if they do it's from a farang!  deep down they are deeply nationalistic and racist 

Not that deep in my opinion.

Public ignorance due to poor education  ensures the uneducated masses do what they are told dont question and believe what mindless moron in government say.

Also fictitious history taught kids along with associated brainwashing of how great and good thailand was/is fuels this nonsense

3 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Of course it is only the foreign workers who may be showing symptoms. How about employers just monitor ALL STAFF. 

It's interesting to see how all this xenophobia is growing. 

 

One of our Thai friends owns a little beauty shop that is closed at the moment, and only yesterday she told us that she hopes she will be allowed to open on May 1. She then added, "but I won't allow any foreigners in because they may be infected."

it's like a football match.  you swear by your colors, no matter what.  i'm sure other countries blame the Chinese for bad water.....here, it's the farangs.  

 

i don't care if you spend 20-years here, you will have only a couple Thai friends (real friends) and most will stare at you like a bad stranger.  they like your money, but really 99.9% don't care what happens to you.  

 

then you will cough over pollution, cry over visas, worry about being hated, worried about being kicked out, check-in every 90 days....

 

if i was 50 and over and if retirement was FREE.... no way.  

 

couple months is good.   one year OK.  a few years is a little long, and after that you likely are too tired to leave your room.  

7 hours ago, bluesofa said:

'expressed by a resident' How kind of Dr Taweesin to do all this after only one person mentioned this.

I think the word Foreigner and Dirty are put together a lot nowadays because of An Utin

Back to agitating the public with anti-foreigner fear-based, race-based rhetoric.  Gotta watch those dirty foreigners as all clean Thais know that dirty foreigners are the ones spreading Covid throughout Thailand. 

Racism is rampant here and the Covid issue has forced it to the surface so all can see Thailand's institutionalize racism which is irrational, but works great for scapegoating. 

Edited April 27, 20206 yr by connda

Umm.  And, while you're at it, watch your Thai workers, too.  

9 hours ago, webfact said:

According to Thai authorities, there are about 10 detention centres around border provinces as well as in Bangkok. Immigration officials have to reorganise management of detentions in order to prevent those who lived in crowded facilities from contacting with virus, Taweesin said.

What the high-priests of government ministries fail to grasp is that most of the populations in prisons and detention centers are already infected and asymptomatic. 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX

It doesn't help when you pack 60 of them in the back of a truck and bring them to a construction site, as you did before and still doing it today.

All animals are created equal but some animals are better than other animals. Particularly Thai vs dirty Farang. I have no hope this xenophobia will be eradicated but it always should be called out.

9 hours ago, ukrules said:

This is what happens when you lock people up in medieval conditions.

what goes on at my house is my business. 

"Of the 53 new cases, 42 are illegal immigrants" 

 

Perhaps they should ask themselves first why are there ILLEGAL immigrants workers! It could be dangerous to report such people even if they are sick. 

Thailand is apparently a model of airy and spacious detention centres, at least compared with El Salvador!

 

3 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Thailand is apparently a model of airy and spacious detention centres, at least compared with El Salvador!

 

Wow! This is unique. I don't want to know what will happen if someone needs to go to the toilet ????