Governor dismisses Phuket’s last seven COVID cases, suspends field hospital

Governor dismisses Phuket’s last seven COVID cases, suspends field hospital

Phuket Governor Phakaphong Tavipatana at the meeting of the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee, which he chairs, yesterday (May 29). Photo: PR Phuket

PHUKET: The Phuket Governor yesterday gave the order for the COVID-19 ‘Field Hospital’ set up at the site of still-unfinished new Provincial Hall to ‘suspend all activities’ from tomorrow (May 31), confirming his announcement made earlier this week.

The facility, initially set up in readiness for a huge influx of COVID-19 patients, currently has only two people in care.

Governor Phakaphong Tavipatana at the meeting of the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee, which he chairs, yesterday (May 29) said that Phuket had passed one month without a confirmed infection, claimed a report by the Phuket office of the Public Relations Department (PR Phuket).

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