Phuket offering free COVID tests over Rayong risk

[snoop1130]

Phuket offering free COVID tests over Rayong risk

By The Phuket News

 

Phuket Vice Governor Phichet Panaphong explained yesterday that the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) in Bangkok had confirmed that the Egyptian soldier who was later found infected stayed at D Varee Diva Central Rayong hotel, from July 8-11. Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET:-- The Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO) is offering any persons in Phuket who were in the same areas in Rayong from July 8-11 where the Egyptian soldier, now confirmed as infected, may have visited to come for a free COVID-19 test.

 

“Anyone who visited Rayong during the same period and are worried whether they had unknown close contact with the infected person, please contact the PPHO and come to be tested for free,” Busaya Jaipiam, Chief of the Phuket office of the Public Relations Department (PR Phuket), told The Phuket News’ Thai-language sister newspaper Khao Phuket today (July 17).

 

Phuket Vice Governor Phichet Panaphong explained yesterday that the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) in Bangkok had confirmed that the Egyptian soldier who was later found infected stayed at D Varee Diva Central Rayong hotel, from July 8-11.

 

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[YetAnother]

21 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

and come to be tested for free,

this should have been available to all, from day 1; yes, i know there is a lab analysis in the middle;

thais, being thais, might make it 30 baht for thais and 5000 for non-thais; and think this is perfectly ok

[yawg]

If you do this free "test" you have a good chance to be tested positive even though you are perfectly healthy. The PCR and the antibody test are like a lottery, in fact there is no reliable test for a virus like this. That's the problem, why we have these high numbers of so called infected people and the relatively low numbers of deaths. Much lower than with former influenza seasons.