Thailand races to contact trace as coronavirus reappears

 

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask gets his temperature taken before receiving free food during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is racing ahead with contact tracing after detecting its first domestic coronavirus infection in over three months, health officials said on Friday, with tests conducted on nearly 200 people with possible exposure to the new case.

 

Thailand reported its first non-imported case in after over 100 days on Thursday, after a prisoner a day earlier had tested positive for the coronavirus during a mandatory test for new inmates.

 

"We traced his movement back two weeks before he had symptoms on Aug. 29," Sopon Iamsirithaworn, director of Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, told a news conference.

 

The man, 37, had worked as a nightclub DJ at three different venues in the capital Bangkok during the past two weeks, officials said, before he was jailed for a drugs-related offence.

 

So far, 194 people considered at risk, including family members, inmates and people at the court where he had appeared have tested negative, Sopon said, adding that authorities were using a government smartphone application to contact those who had checked-in at those venues.

 

All of the country's new cases in the last three months have been found in quarantine in individuals who were returning from overseas.

 

Thailand has reported a relatively low 3,431 cases and 58 COVID-19 deaths overall, with 96 patients currently being treated in hospital. That compares with more than 232,000 and 187,000 infections in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.

 

Thai authorities advised those concerned about exposure to the new case to seek testing and to quarantine at home.

 

"If you suspect that you've come into contact with this DJ, you can come in for free tests," senior health official, Ritdej Chareonchai, said.

 

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No mention of where this young man could have contracted the virus.  Airport?  ASQ Hotel?  Hospital?  Magic?

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

adding that authorities were using a government smartphone application to contact those who had checked-in at those venues.

But what if you've got an old Nokia .. 

"authorities were using a government smartphone application to contact those who had checked-in at those venues."

 

I've not seen anyone "check in" for quite a while.  

I you can believe this whole 100 day thing it’s obviously been bought into the country by an illegal migrant worker from a neighbouring country.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-how-to-do-testing-and-contact-tracing-bde85b64072e

 

 

And that's the reason Thailand didn't open up. They don't have the TETRIS (Test, Trace, Isolate) in place. "Too expensive", let's get more submarines and high speed trains.

Edited September 4, 20205 yr by DrTuner

7 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

But what if you've got an old Nokia .. 

it,s smoke signals then.......

But they have done such a stellar job with this!

How....

 

I hate to say "I told you so", but...

3 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

No mention of where this young man could have contracted the virus.  Airport?  ASQ Hotel?  Hospital?  Magic?

I'll go with magic since not enough testing to confirm the other ideas you put out there...

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=USA~ITA~GBR~FRA~ESP~SGP~THA~KOR&testsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=total_deaths&pickerSort=desc

 

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

But what if you've got an old Nokia .. 

 

 Keep it going .  Be Smart ..

    That way big brother , don't know , where the  fkc, you are ...

 

 

Edited September 4, 20205 yr by elliss

I can’t see the cabinet being too worried about all of this. They’ll all soon be singing “We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine” 

22 minutes ago, Wiggy said:

I can’t see the cabinet being too worried about all of this. They’ll all soon be singing “We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine” 

I think you mean gold....until it needs to be pink...or blue... ????

Fake news.

How can Thailand know about have covid infection? 

TVF members told me “Thailand not have any test covid” 5 month already. 

Another conspiracy theory = BS 

 

Other TVF conspiracy guys say thailand a lot covid, the “government” hide that. For tourism. 

Why not hide this one? 

Because conspiracy theory= BS 

 

*Thailand FIRST country (out of China) test Covid. 

 

 

People with high education are less likely than people with low education to believe in conspiracy theories.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-57821-001

 

 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

No mention of where this young man could have contracted the virus.  Airport?  ASQ Hotel?  Hospital?  Magic?

Drug traffickers?

8 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Fake news.

How can Thailand know about have covid infection? 

TVF members told me “Thailand not have any test covid” 5 month already. 

Another conspiracy theory = BS 

 

Other TVF conspiracy guys say thailand a lot covid, the “government” hide that. For tourism. 

Why not hide this one? 

Because conspiracy theory= BS 

 

*Thailand FIRST country (out of China) test Covid. 

 

 

People with high education are less likely than people with low education to believe in conspiracy theories.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-57821-001

 

 

 

 

 

The real 'conspiracy' is that covid19 is not actually dangerous and that the cure (lockdowns, shutdowns etc) are worse than the disease. 

 

Average age of people dying from covid-19 in sweden is 82. Average life expectancy in sweden is 82.

Only 6% of people dying from covid in sweden didn't have underlying medical issues as cause of death.

Sweden had no lockdown and no masks etc.

 

The entire world is seriously overreacting to this thing. It was understandable in the early days when we didn't know, but now we know.

 

Also, imagine if we put as much effort into preventing the regular flu every year. Or road deaths.. 

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by hobz

14 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

No mention of where this young man could have contracted the virus.  Airport?  ASQ Hotel?  Hospital?  Magic?

Doesn't name the clubs he worked or areas either. Bangkok is a pretty big place. Why don't they narrow it down a bit for people.

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by phetphet

Just accept the reality.  If the person contracted the virus in Bangkok and was contagious, many more will likely get the virus.  If they started testingpeople before the 2 to 14 days have pssed likely a lot of negatives will show up.  The problem would come from those who had come into contact, possibly earlier, but more likely near the end of 14 days (or longer)

11 hours ago, elliss said:

 

 Keep it going .  Be Smart ..

    That way big brother , don't know , where the  fkc, you are ...

 

 

Unless you use a Rabbit card on the BTS or metro.

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by phetphet

2 minutes ago, hobz said:

The real 'conspiracy' is that covid19 is not actually dangerous and that the cure (lockdowns, shutdowns etc) are worse than the disease.

 

 

 

Covid is good for health?

Bleach injection be the cure. 

Wear a mask is dangerous.

Plan from China to control the world. 

Is because 5G 

Bill Gates do it.

Tinfoil hat. 

Is plan by “government” to trace everybody. 

Etc etc etc....

 

People with high education are less likely than people with low education to believe in conspiracy theories.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-57821-001

 

 

12 minutes ago, hobz said:

The real 'conspiracy' is that covid19 is not actually dangerous and that the cure (lockdowns, shutdowns etc) are worse than the disease. 

 

Average age of people dying from covid-19 in sweden is 82. Average life expectancy in sweden is 82.

Only 6% of people dying from covid in sweden didn't have underlying medical issues as cause of death.

Sweden had no lockdown and no masks etc.

 

The entire world is seriously overreacting to this thing. It was understandable in the early days when we didn't know, but now we know.

 

Also, imagine if we put as much effort into preventing the regular flu every year. Or road deaths.. 

Yeah, imagine if we had put as much effort into eradicating smallpox or polio  .... oh wait...

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by crobe

20 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Fake news.

How can Thailand know about have covid infection? 

TVF members told me “Thailand not have any test covid” 5 month already. 

Another conspiracy theory = BS 

 

Other TVF conspiracy guys say thailand a lot covid, the “government” hide that. For tourism. 

Why not hide this one? 

Because conspiracy theory= BS 

 

*Thailand FIRST country (out of China) test Covid. 

 

 

People with high education are less likely than people with low education to believe in conspiracy theories.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-57821-001

 

 

 

 

 

Most of my Thai friends are sure that a "pee" gave it to him.

14 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

But what if you've got an old Nokia .. 

What if you don't even own a phone ? ... there are people out there that don't ... not many admittedly !

1 minute ago, polpott said:

Most of my Thai friends are sure that a "pee" gave it to him.

Ghost have covid? 

Another conspiracy! 

 

My conspiracy is the Egypt soldier visit his DJ club.

 

* I hope the tracing be successful. Same happen with New Zeland. Maybe import product? 

Just for clarity, Thai Chana isn't an app, you read the QR code and it links you to a website.

13 hours ago, The Barmbeker said:

But they have done such a stellar job with this!

How....

 

I hate to say "I told you so", but...

If you work in the tourist trade this is the last thing you need to happen. 

 

Borders closed and lockdown imminent. 

1 minute ago, Yinn said:

Ghost have covid? 

Another conspiracy! 

Tell my wife that. I've lost count of the number of chickens my wife has bought for Jao Thi since corona virus started. Emptied my whiskey bottle too.

15 minutes ago, crobe said:

eradicating smallpox or polio 

Not totally!

Just now, Chassa said:

Not totally!

Only because of anti vaxers in 3rd world countries.

21 minutes ago, polpott said:

Just for clarity, Thai Chana isn't an app, you read the QR code and it links you to a website.

Actually, they later also introduced the app. You can download from app store.

For anybody who's interested/concerned, received this from my condo management... 

 

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by Mike Teavee