Seven Thais among 12 returnees who test positive for Covid-19

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported 12 new cases in state quarantine facilities over a 24-hour period on Friday.

 

The cases included:

 

• A 32-year-old Brazilian engineer who arrived from Philippines on October 22 and tested positive on October 27 at a Bangkok alternative state quarantine hotel. He was asymptomatic.

 

• A 34-year-old Thai businesswoman who returned from the US and Taiwan on October 23 and was put up in a quarantine facility in Chonburi. She tested positive on October 28 and was asymptomatic.

 

• Three people travelling from India tested positive. Mainly a 31-year-old Thai masseuse who stayed in Chonburi state quarantine, 32-year-old Indian man who works here, and a 45-year-old Indian woman. All three were put up in a Bangkok alternative state quarantine hotel and tested positive on October 28. The Thai woman’s infection history traced back to September 28.

 

• Four Thai returnees from the United Arab Emirates, namely a 26-year-old spa operator, a 30-year-old woman, 42-year-old restaurant employee and 52-year-old male office worker, arrived on October 23-24 and tested positive while quarantined in a Chonburi state facility on October 27-28.

 

• A 30-year-old Myanmar national who travelled from Myanmar on October 28 to be treated for other ailments tested positive on October 29 at an alternative hospital quarantine in Bangkok. Her health history shows she had been infected on September 28.

 

• A 43-year-old medical tourist who arrived from Ethiopia on October 28 tested positive on the same day at an alternative hospital quarantine facility in Bangkok.

 

• A 25-year-old Thai male student who arrived from Jordan on October 27 and had the sniffles tested positive during the screening process at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

 

Meanwhile, 15 patients have recovered and been discharged.

 

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand has risen to 3,775 (827 in state quarantine), 131 of whom are in hospital and 3,585 have been discharged. The death toll remains unchanged at 59.

 

As of 10am on Friday according to Worldometer, the total number of confirmed cases worldwide had risen to 45.31 million (up by 545,903).

 

Of them 32.99 million have recovered, while 11.14 million are active cases (82,228 in severe condition) and 1.18 million have died (up by 7,172).

 

Thailand ranks 147th in most cases in the world, while US tops the list with 9.21 million, followed by India at 8 million, Brazil 5.49 million, Russia 1.58 million and France 1.28 million.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30397032

 

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How much are idiots paying to sit next them on a long flight?

thais must have a neg test before they fly ,what so difficult with that.all the time in thailand you see this inability to thiink in any normal fashion,of course if untested people fly with tested people some untested people will have the virus and spread it to ones that dont have it,for gods sake,ive got t shirts with higher IQs than these 1/2 wits but no one in the media mentions this to anutin or the generalissimo so they are stupid too,its stupid stupid land and of course no one in countrys tested hardly duuuuur

60% positive rate...there must be a lot of infection outside Thailand. 

Has uncle Tom Cobley tested negative then ????

5 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

60% positive rate...there must be a lot of infection outside Thailand. 

60% infection rate and they expect  11 million tourists in 2021,  can somebody do the sums for me or i will get a migrain

6 hours ago, Almer said:

60% infection rate and they expect  11 million tourists in 2021,  can somebody do the sums for me or i will get a migrain

Just saw on TV positive rate in Austria is 12 %

Just for informational purposes; Thai's do have to have a Covid test before travel like the rest of us.. You can see on the COE request form on the embassy website... I keep seeing posts that say they don't, but that is not correct... 

13 hours ago, 4reaL said:

How much are idiots paying to sit next them on a long flight?

NZ has had to limit bookings on flights for the people returning to NZ as the quarantine facilities are overloading. 

They brought 400 Russian fishing crew in this week and now 11 testing positive. Others returning from India, USA, and many other countries are turning up positive covid tests after a few days in quarantine. 

This sounds similar to what is happening in Thailand. 

 

This tells us that all the talk about shortening quarantine to 10 days is nonsense and that 11 million Chinese tourists coming in soon is a very ambitious dream, unless they are all vaccinated with an approved Chinese vaccine that is working 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

As of 10am on Friday according to Worldometer, the total number of confirmed cases worldwide had risen to 45.31 million (up by 545,903).

 

Of them 32.99 million have recovered, while 11.14 million are active cases (82,228 in severe condition) and 1.18 million have died (up by 7,172).

Gives a figure of  about 2.4% dead  then.