Students returning from other provinces face 14-day quarantine

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Students returning from other provinces face 14-day quarantine

By THE NATION

 

 

Students who return to Samut Sakhon from other provinces will be quarantined for 14 days before being allowed to rejoin schools, which will open nationwide on July 1. Other provinces are likely to follow suit, in line with government rules.

 

Governor Veerasak Vichitsangsri announced the measure after meeting with school executives to discuss Covid-19 prevention measures in local education institutions.

 

The institutions must now inform parents and students that those returning from other provinces to study must follow Public Health Ministry rules, which include self-isolation at home for 14 days before returning to school or college.

 

Meanwhile schools, public health volunteers, and local officials are collaborating to deal with any students who are found with a temperature higher than 37.5 Celsius degrees.

 

Schools and colleges have been instructed to collect information on students and staff to prevent overcrowding and check for symptoms of Covid-19. They are also allowed to extend the school week until Saturday to reduce crowding. Only 20 students will be allowed at one time in each classroom, where desks must be placed at least 1.5 metres apart.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30389642

 

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[darksidedog]

How paranoid are these people? Without a case in the country for 3 weeks all the provinces in the country are clear, so what purpose does this stupidity serve?

[JusticeGB]

Insane! The whole of Thailand has been covid19 free for 19 days except for people returning from abroad.  So people moving between provinces have effectively been quarantined already for over 14 days!

[vermin on arrival]

It's comical. Once the directive has been given from up high, underlings compete to see how extreme they can be. "Jump! How high sir?!" Before super lenient from up high and little done except light screening at airports. Now super strictness from up high so everywhere new strictness and panic measures are introduced even as the threat level goes down.

[Khun Paul]

I am sorry there is only one excuse for these rules. STUPIDITY and a FEAR of doing the wrong thing. 

As stated NO NEW HOME GHROWN CASES ofr over 19 days and yet here we are obeying a silly order with zero LOGICAL thought. I can catch a bus to Bangkok and back no quarantine yet a school boy needs to quarantine. 

 

We expect intelligence sadly the rule makers need to go back to school too. !

[EricTh]

This government is too paranoid, with almost zero cases for the past few weeks, there's no need for internal quarantine.

 

One IMPORTANT fact that people seem to forget is.....

 

Even if you did catch the virus, the death possibility is only 1% and NOT 100%.

 

So far in Thailand, only 58 people have died out of 3135 which is about 1-2%.

 

It's like not allowing people to ride motorcycles when death caused by accidents is 1%.

Edited June 16, 2020 by EricTh

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Students returning from other provinces face 14-day quarantine

They'd best get on the bus today then if the re-start date is July 1st ?

[Scott Tracy]

Silly man.

[connda]

On 6/15/2020 at 2:46 PM, darksidedog said:

How paranoid are these people? Without a case in the country for 3 weeks all the provinces in the country are clear, so what purpose does this stupidity serve?

It allows those with power the opportunity to exert power. 

What good is power if you can't put your knee on someone else's neck, 'eh?

[LazySlipper]

Wasn't there a holiday about 2 weeks ago where thousands of Thais traveled to and fro provinces without being quarantined?

 

Malarky