Health officials chasing down Phuket connection over Krabi COVID patient

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

And the Indian guy will be billed for the hospital stay?    Or does he have insurance?

He'll be charged more than he ever thought possible.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Sadly, seems we can't let our guard down just yet.

I hope Anutin & Phipat are watching closely, recently the French lady on Samui, now Phuket/Krabi...

and they want to reduce quarantine times?

Madness

 

[Huckenfell]

2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I hope Anutin & Phipat are watching closely, recently the French lady on Samui, now Phuket/Krabi...

and they want to reduce quarantine times?

Madness

 

The "French lady" is a Thai lady married to a Frenchman.  So convenient calling her French !

[Barry343]

Just now, Huckenfell said:

The "French lady" is a Thai lady married to a Frenchman.  So convenient calling her French !

Yes she is Thai with dual citizenship and just returned to Thailand from France

[Pikasso]

3 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

 

Working in a restaurant while being Covid positive ...?

Does not sound very good .

From Bangkok to Phuket to a restaurant in Krabi..... whole lot of tracing going on!

[Pikasso]

26 minutes ago, Barry343 said:

Something fishy in Krabi, why was he allowed to work prior to taking a health check  test for a work permit?

How can an Indian get a work permit to work in a restaurant?

 

[moe666]

2 hours ago, malathione said:

It's called viral load. It is the amount of viral RNA present in the blood. Not measured using PCR tests.

Say you wear a mask and come into contact with someone for 2 or 3 min. You would have a small viral load compared to someone who doesn't wear a mask and was in contact for say 2 to 3 hours this person would have a huge viral load. There are plenty of smart people figureing all this out back in some lab

[jkcjag]

4 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

He was applying for a work permit.  Not sure he got it.

If he's already working then you would expect the application to be the annual renewal...

[hotchilli]

40 minutes ago, Pikasso said:

From Bangkok to Phuket to a restaurant in Krabi..... whole lot of tracing going on!

You forgot Chiang Mai & Sukhothai

[khunPer]

5 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

As he has a work permit, he is probably paying social security. If he is paying it then medical care is free.

According to the news stories he came three month ago (?) and was applying for a work permit.

[Jeffr2]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

I hope Anutin & Phipat are watching closely, recently the French lady on Samui, now Phuket/Krabi...

and they want to reduce quarantine times?

Madness

 

Yeah, scary times.  But the economy is in the toilet and many are going out of business.  There's got to be a way to help the tourist economy without letting the virus get out of control.

 

No easy answers.

[Ganesh108]

50 minutes ago, Pikasso said:

How can an Indian get a work permit to work in a restaurant?

 

 

Probably works in an Indian restaurant, not hard to figure out. There are many Indian chefs in Thailand. 

[w94005m]

2 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

With this conspiracy scenario in mind, where are they hiding the piles upon piles of people who died from COVID and how are they keeping the relatives and hospital workers silenced? I'm sure there is another conspiracy theory for that as well:)

Pneumonia pre covid was the 3rd largest killer in Thailand. So they fall in there extremely easily, unless every death is tested, which it is not.

 

[Artisi]

5 hours ago, commie said:

"Small amount" sounds like "a little bit pregnant" LOL

Or very ????

[Patjqm]

4 hours ago, malathione said:

It's called viral load. It is the amount of viral RNA present in the blood. Not measured using PCR tests.

Wich means that after pcr test they always perform a test to check the viral load? That s good because pcr rest have a lot of false positives..

[Patjqm]

41 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

Yeah, scary times.  But the economy is in the toilet and many are going out of business.  There's got to be a way to help the tourist economy without letting the virus get out of control.

 

No easy answers.

As in the rest of the world we ll have to learn to live with this virus...

[tomauasia]

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

This just arrived in my inbox for new news. A pretty interesting read on shedding the virus of an asymptomatic carrier.  

https://www.businessinsider.com/patient-with-coronavirus-shed-virus-for-70-days-2020-11?amp

 

Seems that immunosuppressed virus carries do not build up the antibodies to kill off the virus and are still capable of spreading it for a longer period of time.

I don't believe these reports and this virus is being used a tool to control. All over rated <deleted>. Keeps bored people occupied 

[Patjqm]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Stop with the far left, where are they hiding the piles of Bodies piling up <deleted>.  Asymptomatic is Asymptomatic, no signs no symptoms, and definitely not dying.  The world has millions of Asymptomatic cases and yet not Millions have died.  You are forgiven also to believe people are being silenced.  If the testing is not done, then how do we know how many are asymptomatic if they are not going to a hospital because they are sick.  Time to get real and realize that just like other virus's not many seek treatment and many pass it on.

Exactly, the dead people die from long disease... see Belgium, we are on the top....but no overdeads. 

[Sheryl]

5 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

The big question is not who he has given it to but who gave it to him? I guess thats not really important in the context of the official line that there is no Thai to Thai domestic transmission in Thailand!

 

There is no such official line

 

On the contrary, health officials have several times clarified that some sporadic continued local transmission is quite likely and this is the rationale for continued advice re masks. And they have never suggested that susceptibility to infection varies by nationality.

 

Reports on known cases are not the same thing as claims as to total actual cases. (And for that matter, there have been confirmed cases in Thais who went abroad and were tested on arrival at another country).

[Sheryl]

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

According to the news stories he came three month ago (?) and was applying for a work permit.

One article said that but in today's BP it says he came in February...which makes more sense given the travel restrictions that were in effect 3 months ago

[Sheryl]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

.. The world has millions of Asymptomatic cases and yet not Millions have died. 

On the contrary, the known death toll worldwide stands at 1.28 million. And that is with most deaths in India and possibly some parts of Latin America likely not included (less than a quarter of Indian states even report cause of death to the central government).  And does not include deaths due to COVID in people not tested nor deaths from other causes due to lack of medical care (collapse of the health care system and/or fear of going to the hospital - both of which have happened in many of the worst hit places).

[Mavideol]

did they find or are they looking for the Superspreader Hot Spot....

[Pikasso]

56 minutes ago, Ganesh108 said:

 

Probably works in an Indian restaurant, not hard to figure out. There are many Indian chefs in Thailand. 

My Indian mate owns an Indian restaurant and can't get a work permit for his own brother to work in his kitchen, so not that easy!!

[ThailandRyan]

27 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

On the contrary, the known death toll worldwide stands at 1.28 million. And that is with most deaths in India and possibly some parts of Latin America likely not included (less than a quarter of Indian states even report cause of death to the central government).  And does not include deaths due to COVID in people not tested nor deaths from other causes due to lack of medical care (collapse of the health care system and/or fear of going to the hospital - both of which have happened in many of the worst hit places).

Sorry Sheryl I was talking about Millions of Asymptomatics not dying.

[Ganesh108]

21 minutes ago, Pikasso said:

My Indian mate owns an Indian restaurant and can't get a work permit for his own brother to work in his kitchen, so not that easy!!

 

Officially for each foreigner employed they need to employ 4 Thais, an obstacle which can be circumvented with the help of an agent. Many Indian chefs work in high-end hotels, as in Sukhumvit, and the hotels have good leverage. 

[matveo]

5 hours ago, mjakob007 said:

 Virus is virus... 

how can one be diagnosed for little quantity....

 

PCR test shows + or -.

does not read it as it was a thermometer!

Thats not true, it is very common for PCR test to mention at the bottom how many rotation of the machine were done before it detected you as positive.

If you're positive within less than 30 rotations of the machine its likely you have enough viral charge to contaminate others.

If you're positive after 40+ rotations, while you are positive it is less likely that you can infect other people as your viral charge is likely too low.

 

Some countries have decided to declare negative anyone whom has not declared positive in under 30 rotations.

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, Barry343 said:

Yes she is Thai with dual citizenship and just returned to Thailand from France

She didn't look very Thai in the photo I saw

[Mr Meeseeks]

7 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

As he has a work permit, he is probably paying social security. If he is paying it then medical care is free.

He was doing a medical to apply for a work permit, which means he did not have one yet.

 

Medicals are not required for annual renewals as far as I am aware.

[Swimfan]

49 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

One article said that but in today's BP it says he came in February...which makes more sense given the travel restrictions that were in effect 3 months ago

Arrived in April 2019 to set up restaurant. Took a trip to Singapore and back Feb 2020.

[hasitha77]

6 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Medicals are not required for annual renewals as far as I am aware.

yes it is a requirement for the work-permit renewal. But dont know how come he had to go through a PCR test.