UN Praises Thailand’s Management of COVID-19 Threat

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UN Praises Thailand’s Management of COVID-19 Threat

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Due to the well-managed COVID-19 situation in Thailand, the kingdom has been receiving compliments from many countries as well as from the United Nations.

 

Mr. Chuan Leekpai, President of the National Assembly disclosed today that at a meeting with Mrs. Gita Sabharwal, the new UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, they were discussing the COVID-19 situation in Thailand and she praised Thai authorities and the people as having successfully coped with the virus.

 

Mr. Chuan expressed his concerns about the country’s economy, saying that the government needs to solve this problem as soon as possible. He also told the UN representative about the Thai medical sector that has been strengthened and developed over a long period, as they prioritize the needs of every human.

 

Notwithstanding where they graduated, none of them would leave a patient in need and would never give up. This strength and commitment is also displayed by Thailand’s medical volunteers.

 

Source: http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG200617131619377

 

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[Berti]

Close everything, you must be a genius to invent this strategy.

It only works when people are capable of suffering.

 

Agree about medical sector.

[zeamonkey]

5 hours ago, Berti said:

 

It only works when people are capable of suffering.

 

Agree about medical sector.

It only works when majority of the population have no clue whats going on outside FB, IG and Tik Tok. Spellbind them in Tik Tok to believe everything, these people are sheep and will blindly follow orders.

[NCC1701A]

Good work Thailand. 

 

Thailand has put the rest of the world to shame fighting the virus.

[Jingthing]

Good job, Thailand.

Don't let all that sacrifice go to waste.

The threat is not gone. 

[Bundooman]

9 hours ago, zeamonkey said:

It only works when majority of the population have no clue whats going on outside FB, IG and Tik Tok. Spellbind them in Tik Tok to believe everything, these people are sheep and will blindly follow orders.

Really?

Laws are orders. Thais take no notice of them as we know.

What makes you think they will blindly follow other orders?

[loong]

Maybe they should be congratulating Thailand on its geographical location.

They could have added "Shame that you couldn't do anywhere near so well as Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos whose combined population is more than double yours, yet they have less than 1 quarter of Thailand's cases"

[StevieAus]

31 minutes ago, loong said:

Maybe they should be congratulating Thailand on its geographical location.

They could have added "Shame that you couldn't do anywhere near so well as Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos whose combined population is more than double yours, yet they have less than 1 quarter of Thailand's cases"

Perhaps as well having seen the medical facilities in Myanamar, Cambodia and Laos you wouldn’t want to fall sick there.

[Sujo]

Why is it always the thai saying what some agency has said.

 

Why is it never from the horses mouth.

[Matzzon]

Well deserved!

[ChrisKC]

Many of the world's experts are are learning ways to manage this virus, because it is a new strain. Observing other countries, maybe excluding those with stupid Presidents, it is difficult to correlate exactly what has been universally constant that would allow definitive conclusions to be reached.

In Thailand, whether by luck or good judgment, we should be thankful we have arrived at a point where just about everyone has escaped the infection and much fewer having died.

We have lived with inconvenience, and for many, economic hardship but on balance, instead of being critical and cynical of the Governments handling of the situation over six months, let us give this one to them.

[Dukeleto]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Good job, Thailand.

Don't let all that sacrifice go to waste.

The threat is not gone. 

Yes lets keep the country sealed off while the millions who depend on it continue to suffer the brunt of it endlessly waiting for a vaccine that is unlikely to come and certainly not anytime soon. For those wealthy enough to see it through, thats great but how about those who cannot?

[Pancho]

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, Dukeleto said:

Yes lets keep the country sealed off while the millions who depend on it continue to suffer the brunt of it endlessly waiting for a vaccine that is unlikely to come and certainly not anytime soon. For those wealthy enough to see it through, thats great but how about those who cannot?

Don't put words in my mouth. 

Not cool! 

[5633572526]

2 hours ago, Bundooman said:

Really?

Laws are orders. Thais take no notice of them as we know.

What makes you think they will blindly follow other orders?

Because we just saw it happen

[canuckamuck]

Thailand's strategy of not doing much testing was only slightly less effective than its neighbors doing no testing. But overall it was a much better strategy than testing like crazy. Which is what happened in the hardest hit areas.

Lesson learned. Testing spreads Covid19.

[Silent Number]

17 minutes ago, Dukeleto said:

Yes lets keep the country sealed off while the millions who depend on it continue to suffer the brunt of it endlessly waiting for a vaccine that is unlikely to come and certainly not anytime soon. For those wealthy enough to see it through, thats great but how about those who cannot?

I prefer that to Russian Roulette in a crowded bar or other venue somewhere.

[thairookie]

Does that mean Thailand is ready to welcome Chinese tourists ?

[Silent Number]

14 minutes ago, thairookie said:

Does that mean Thailand is ready to welcome Chinese tourists ?

Afraid so.Chinese farang  most probably be given preference over Western farang. As usual.

[steven100]

25 minutes ago, thairookie said:

Does that mean Thailand is ready to welcome Chinese tourists ?

'Extremely grave': COVID-19 situation in China worsens

Breakingnews>>05:01

China raised its emergency warning to its second-highest level and cancelled more than 60 per cent of the flights to Beijing amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital.

It was a sharp pullback for the nation that declared victory over COVID-19 in March and a message to the rest of the world about how tenacious the virus really is.

New infections spiked in India, Iran and US states including Florida, Texas and Arizona as authorities struggled to balance restarting economic activity without accelerating the pandemic.

Chinese officials described the situation in Beijing as "extremely grave.""This has truly rung an alarm bell for us," Party Secretary Cai Qi told a meeting of Beijing's Communist Party Standing Committee.

[jkcjag]

1 hour ago, Dukeleto said:

Yes lets keep the country sealed off while the millions who depend on it continue to suffer the brunt of it endlessly waiting for a vaccine that is unlikely to come and certainly not anytime soon. For those wealthy enough to see it through, thats great but how about those who cannot?

 So your idea would be what exactly? I assume you have a much better solution to curb the spread...maybe copy the UK perhaps...only 50,000 deaths there.

[Mick501]

No doubt Thailand has done well.  Whether it be good management, or external factors like weather and culture (wai, no handshakes, no hugging, face masks etc) remains to be seen.  Don't need the crazies at the UN to announce the obvious, although perhaps they should stick to pointing out the obvious as they seem to screw up every time they try to extend themselves beyond that limit.

[Caldera]

58 COVID-19 deaths and 6,000 road accident deaths so far this year. Great that they've done something effective about the former, when will they get serious about the latter? An unnecessary death is an unnecessary death, no matter its cause!

 

[geriatrickid]

7 minutes ago, Caldera said:

58 COVID-19 deaths and 6,000 road accident deaths so far this year. Great that they've done something effective about the former, when will they get serious about the latter? An unnecessary death is an unnecessary death, no matter its cause!

 

58 "official" deaths. Not recorded are the deceased who were not tested following death, the rural poor who did not have access to medical care, the elderly who suffered the complications of the  infection, and who went untreated.

 

Bear in mind that we are still in the initial stages of the pandemic. It is  gaining strength in Africa and South America; is unchecked in Russia and surging again in the USA.

I think we are in for some surprises.

 

[Krataiboy]

13 hours ago, zeamonkey said:

It only works when majority of the population have no clue whats going on outside FB, IG and Tik Tok. Spellbind them in Tik Tok to believe everything, these people are sheep and will blindly follow orders.

Just like everywhere else. Or do you know of some shangri-la free of smartphones social media?

[BobbyL]

Let's be fair, the numbers may be far higher (similar to every country), but one thing you cannot fault them with is the policies that the people here have followed.

 

Just look at the scenes in the UK or USA with people doing whatever they want with no social distancing, no masks and places pretty much open like normal. 

 

 

[George Aylesham]

2 hours ago, ChrisKC said:

Many of the world's experts are are learning ways to manage this virus, because it is a new strain. Observing other countries, maybe excluding those with stupid Presidents, it is difficult to correlate exactly what has been universally constant that would allow definitive conclusions to be reached.

In Thailand, whether by luck or good judgment, we should be thankful we have arrived at a point where just about everyone has escaped the infection and much fewer having died.

We have lived with inconvenience, and for many, economic hardship but on balance, instead of being critical and cynical of the Governments handling of the situation over six months, let us give this one to them.

Thanks for your thoughtful post; I was getting very fed up with all the repetitious, knee jerk Thai bashers on TV.

[Bender Rodriguez]

praise to a narcissist that did NOTHING at all...that will boost the ego even more ..

 

don't test , don't tell => you did GREAT 

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

Good work Thailand. 

 

Thailand has put the rest of the world to shame fighting the virus.

I don't think they had much to fight, they got away with sheer luck considering what was happening in early February with the Chinese new year.

I'd liked to have seen how the health system held up if it was 10's of thousands infected and thousands dying?

[rupert the bear]

we appear to have low nos but.........until thailand tests people we will never know the true extent of the problem.obviously everywhere many people have immunity now,its still out there for sure but clusters arnt found and once out of bkk many deaths are mis reported as they were with AIDS.we have escaped i dont understand exactly why but later there will be clusters and theres no way to trak/trace the clusters down effectively.we see that happens many places eg in asia .s korea spore.i would give little credence to anything coming out of PRC as hk sources state that many thousands of deaths went unreported on the mainland by looking at the no of funerals etc that were in excess of nor,mal.over 200k!