Ministry explains details on Thai student's Covid-19 death in Egypt

By THE NATION

 

 

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Cherdkiat Atthakorn on Wednesday (July 29) met the press on Wednesday (July 29) to clarify the case of a Thai student in Egypt succumbing to Covid-19 on Tuesday.

 

Cherdkiat said the Thai embassy had been informed about a Thai student suffering from a cough and fatigue about three weeks ago, and learned that the student had a lung infection.

 

The student was then sent to a state quarantine site, but succumbed to the infection on Tuesday. The embassy has spoken to the student’s family, who agreed to have the student buried in a graveyard in Cairo. The deceased was buried yesterday.

 

Cherdkiat said this 26-year-old student was the first Thai national to have died from Covid-19 in Egypt, but did not reveal the student’s name or gender.

 

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12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Cherdkiat said the Thai embassy had been informed about a Thai student suffering from a cough and fatigue about three weeks ago, and learned that the student had a lung infection.

 

The student was then sent to a state quarantine site, but succumbed to the infection on Tuesday.

Sent to a quarantine site?
Not to a hospital?

2 hours ago, loong said:

Sent to a quarantine site?
Not to a hospital?

Maybe the student got the same compassionate treatment that foreigners receive here in the LOS

Unfortunately pneumonia kicked in already before/or arriving at the hospital it seems. Another young life fallen victim of Covid19.

R.I.P Thoughts and prayers are with the family.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

he embassy has spoken to the student’s family, who agreed to have the student buried in a graveyard in Cairo. The deceased was buried yesterday.

muslim thai ?  

3 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

muslim thai ?  

Yes thanks, my thought as well. Could possibly have been a Christian or other?

 

Censuses (Thailand)

Religion	Census 2010	%
Buddhism	61,746,429	94.50%
Islam	3,259,340	4.29%
Christianity	789,376	1.17%
Hinduism	41,808	0.03%

You can believe the Egyptians or not. I don't. The young Thai's in an age group that isn't usually affected all that much by the virus. 

Deaths in younger people are far from unknown. As a percentage of total cases, it is true that their fatality rate is lower than for older people, but they tend to have more cases, and the fatality rate is not zero.

 

Young people have died of COVID in many countries before this, including Thailand itself.

 

It is a common misperception that only old people die of COVID. Not true.

13 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

muslim thai ?  

Does this make a difference?

Untrustworthy govt to untrustworthy govt-no one will ever know 

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Untrustworthy govt to untrustworthy govt-no one will ever know 

I assume that with "govt" you mean government.

 

The government of which country do you mean, Egypt or Thailand?

9 minutes ago, Puccini said:

I assume that with "govt" you mean government.

 

The government of which country do you mean, Egypt or Thailand?

Both-they have both illustrated to the world that what they say is untrustworthy, so who is to believe either?  Both authoritarian 

On 7/29/2020 at 6:06 PM, snoop1130 said:

Ministry explains details on Thai student's Covid-19 death in Egypt

 

The brakes failed. 

On 7/30/2020 at 2:33 PM, Sheryl said:

Deaths in younger people are far from unknown. As a percentage of total cases, it is true that their fatality rate is lower than for older people, but they tend to have more cases, and the fatality rate is not zero.

 

Young people have died of COVID in many countries before this, including Thailand itself.

 

It is a common misperception that only old people die of COVID. Not true.

Yes.

 

Clever COVID is very good at finding latent, unknown weaknesses, in many different organs.

 

It sometimes barely affects the lungs but moves elsewhere to kill/disable.

 

It finds that special weakness that its victim was born with.

 

It finds that small number who possess them and are doomed, from birth, to die a "tragic, early death.......before their time".

 

 

 

 

Edited July 31, 20205 yr by Enoon