Nine Thais returning from Jordan, South Korea hospitalised with high fever

By THE NATION

 

 

Nine of the 320 Thais who returned home on Tuesday (July 14) from Jordan and South Korea were found to have high fever and rushed to hospital, Suvarnabhumi Airport deputy director Kittipong Kittikachorn said.

 

He said 120 Thais departed Jordan on Royal Jordanian Flight RJ 6180 and arrived at the airport at 3.35pm.

 

“Preliminary screening found that eight passengers had high fever and were rushed to hospital. “The rest were transported to the government’s quarantine facilities for the mandatory 14-day quarantine, except one person for whom there was an arrest warrant and was taken to official custody.”

 

Jordan has reported 1,183 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 10 deaths.

 

 

“The second flight repatriating Thais came from South Korea,” Kittipong added. “Korean Air Flight KE651 touched down at Suvarnabhumi at 9.15pm.

Out of 200 passengers, one was found to have high fever and rushed to hospital. The rest were transported to the government’s quarantine facilities in Bangkok.”

 

South Korea has reported 13,511 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 289 deaths.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30391324

 

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How again HOW  EXACTLY are they not  getting that 72  hour precovid test and if they are it  then proves how useless it  is.

Regretfully, opening up of any borders and any relaxing of quarantine WILL bring in the virus - that's an absolute certainty that no government can control. What Thailand can do, though, is to continue to test, test, test all new air/sea arrivals and quarantine them for 14 days without exception. Tough-titty on the 'privileged' foreigners and returnee Thais - this virus doesn't discriminate.     

IMO, more likely is the virus will be - if not already - transported into Thailand by people crossing any lax land borders, whether lawfully or otherwise. That's also a certainty and high risk. 

Are Thai citizens required to get virus check before flying or just complete the fit to fly certificate? Maybe Thai citizens cannot be denied entry if airline allows them on the plane
 But curious the percent infected on planes arriving seems higher than the reported infection of the country of the flight origin. I think someone is deceiving us.

This shows how little testing is being carried out and figures recorded in Jordan and many other countries that have low "confirmed" cases  

Wonder how high a high fever is and how accurately it is measured before they are rushed to hospital.  I don't recall seeing how many of these high fever returnees subsequently prove to be infected.

Wondering why they don't test and quatantaine BEFORE flying. This could avoid importing cases. Only CV free people in. Full stop.

46 minutes ago, Deli said:

Wondering why they don't test and quatantaine BEFORE flying. This could avoid importing cases. Only CV free people in. Full stop.

The departing countries are happy to let them go... in any condition.

8 hours ago, bodga said:

How again HOW  EXACTLY are they not  getting that 72  hour precovid test and if they are it  then proves how useless it  is.

 

Even if they did get tested and it was missed does not make it "useless." It just makes it less than 100%.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

except one person for whom there was an arrest warrant and was taken to official custody.”

I'm sure the cops have the proper facilities to isolate this person from all the other prisoners ????