Phuket COVID case blanked amid mass focus on Krabi patient

[webfact]

Phuket COVID case blanked amid mass focus on Krabi patient

By The Phuket News

 

Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Dr Thanit Sermkaew at a meeting earlier this month. Photo: PPHO / file

 

PHUKET: Health officials’ aspirations of using the ‘Phuket Model’ of preventing and handling COVID-19 infections in other provinces has taken a heady blow this week after an intensive ‘track and trace’ campaign successfully hunted down some 290 people suspected of infection after close contact with one COVID-positive man who travelled through Phuket, while a 38-year-old Dutchman confirmed as infected in Phuket just days after entering the country remains entirely unexplained.

 

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) in Bangkok reported both cases last Saturday (Nov 7), but immediately launched a track and trace campaign only for an Indian man staying in Krabi who passed through Phuket. The man had dinner with a friend in Patong before boarding a Thai AirAsia flight north to enjoy a short holiday in Chiang Mai and Loy Krathong festivities in Sukhothai.

 

The Indian man, who had travelled to Phi Phi Island before his visit to Phuket, was confirmed as infected with COVID-19 only after he had returned to Krabi and undergone medical tests for his work permit on Nov 4. The man, 37, works at a restaurant.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-covid-case-blanked-amid-mass-focus-on-krabi-patient-77942.php

 

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[nobodysfriend]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

while a 38-year-old Dutchman confirmed as infected in Phuket just days after entering the country remains entirely unexplained.

 

Confirmed as infected in Phuket ... does that mean that his infection was disovered while he was in quarantine ?

Or , has he become infected after leaving quarantine ?

If he just arrived in the country , he must have had a Covid test .

Just days after entering the country means that he became infected in the country he was in before traveling to Thailand ...?