All six Thai women who sneaked in from Myanmar test positive for Covid-19

[ThailandRyan]

22 minutes ago, the green light said:

Not oin mae Sai there are no ASQ hotel..

thje thai gvt told the thai  people to self quarantine at home and not forced hotel

 

They told the contacts who are already here in the country of the ones that entered illegally to self quarantine.  Not the ones who enter the country from outside.  The border trade unfortunately is a right old mess, with drivers testing positive here and such.

Also "Thais working in Myanmar who wish to return home should do so only through two permanent border checkpoints, in Tak's Mae Sot district and Chiang Rai's Mae Sai, and go immediately into state quarantine to stem the spread of Covid-19, 3rd Army commander Lt Gen Apichet Suesat said on Monday".

Edited December 4, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[Sheryl]

9 hours ago, Nicknoodle said:

So all these women have crossed the border illegally with the virus and ventured to numerous locations and there’s no local transmissions? I highly doubt it! Thailand covid cases are the same as Chinas, very dubious!

One case of local transmission attributable to  these women has just been confirmed

[ThailandRyan]

Chiang Rai Public Health Officials Report Another Covid19 Case (chiangraitimes.com)

Here it is

[Sheryl]

1 hour ago, the green light said:

self quarantine at home

 

No.

 

Neither foreigners not Thais allowed to do this. Early attempts at this led to people flouting it and for many months now all quarantine is in monitored facilities.

[elgenon]

On 12/2/2020 at 2:31 AM, snoop1130 said:

All six Thai women who sneaked in from Myanmar test positive for Covid-19

By The Nation

 

 

At a press briefing held by the Public Health Ministry on Covid-19 outbreak, Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn from the Department of Disease Control, said six additional cases were detected among people who sneaked into Thailand via Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

 

A 28-year-old Phayao resident who went to work at the 1G1 entertainment venue in Myanmar’s Tachilek district in early November, illegally entered the country on November 27 with a Myanmar national. A motorbike picked her up at the border to deliver her at Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai bus terminal at 3pm, where she takes a taxi to the Big C department store near her home in Phayao at 6pm.

 

She goes out again on November 28 at 9pm to grab dinner, wearing a mask at all times.

 

On November 29, her boyfriend accompanies her to an outdoor Singha beer garden. They park their car at 8pm and seat themselves, but do not go near the stage. They then return home at 11pm, before heading downtown and checking in at Hop Inn at 4am. Later the same day they drive to Chiang Mai.

 

On November 30 at 5pm, the woman goes to a private hospital in Chiang Mai to be tested for Covid-19.

 

They then decide to return to Phayao the same night and she is admitted into Phayao Hospital. Results from the private hospital in Chiang Mai on December 1 confirm she is infected, as does a test conducted in Phayao Hospital the same day.

 

A 21-year-old Thai woman sneaks into Thailand on November 28.

 

A 25-year-old Thai woman enters Thailand on November 28 with the 21-year-old above. After arriving in Don Mueang Airport on the same day, she takes a flight to Phichit to stay with another friend. They go out to dinner at Bird Bar in Phichit with another three friends. None of them wear masks.

 

Between November 29 and 30, this woman dines at both Bird Bar and Crocodile pub.

 

She is caught on December 1 after her friend in Bangkok tests positive and is taken to a local state quarantine facility, where she too tests positive.

 

A 36-year-old Thai woman who had been in Myanmar since November 3 and had visited the 1G1 entertainment venue between November 23 and 24 develops Covid-19 symptoms on November 26. She treats her cough, runny nose and body ache with over-the-counter drugs, and is helped by a Myanmar national to sneak into Thailand via a natural border in Chiang Mai on November 29.

 

She then goes to Chiang Mai airport in a friend’s car, wearing a mask at all times, and takes a Thai Lion Air flight at 10.40am to land in Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport at midday on the same day.

 

She then takes a taxi to Mo Chit Bus Terminal, where she takes a van to Big C department store in Ratchaburi. She then heads to a private hospital after learning from a friend in Myanmar that someone from her group of friends had been infected. She is then transferred to the state hospital in Ratchaburi and confirmed to be positive on December 2.

 

• Two women, aged 23 and 35, who reportedly worked in Myanmar’s Tachilek district with a woman who had sneaked into Chiang Mai on November 24, tested positive but are asymptomatic. The duo had entered Thailand illegally via Chiang Mai and headed home to Mae Sot district in Tak province on November 26. They decided to go in for a test after learning their friend was infected.

 

After learning of the above cases, the Public Health Ministry has called on people to stop sneaking into the country like this because the government provides free quarantine facilities as well as food. People entering the country illegally are encouraged to report for a test.

 

The ministry has confirmed that there are no local transmissions, but believes measures need to be in place to curb the risk.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30398966

 

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What's the state of the virus in Burma?

[ChipButty]

1 minute ago, elgenon said:

What's the state of the virus in Burma?

Almost as good as deaths on the road in Thailand

[DavisH]

On 12/3/2020 at 7:00 AM, HashBrownHarry said:

There could have been people travelling all over the country for the last 8 months ( without symptoms ) passing it from one to another, just just don't know.

That's highly unlikely, as tey woudl have caused symptomatic cases ad this would have been detected py people turnign up to hospitals sick. Its nust not possuble to have hundreds or thousands of asyptomatic carriers and not one that shows symptoms which would be found by testing. 

[HashBrownHarry]

Just now, DavisH said:

That's highly unlikely, as tey woudl have caused symptomatic cases ad this would have been detected py people turnign up to hospitals sick. Its nust not possuble to have hundreds or thousands of asyptomatic carriers and not one that shows symptoms which would be found by testing. 

Unlikely but possible.

 

Apparently 80% don't show symptoms, maybe some people who 'potentially' had it thought just a regular cold / cough etc?

 

Who knows...

[DavisH]

20 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

No.

 

Neither foreigners not Thais allowed to do this. Early attempts at this led to people flouting it and for many months now all quarantine is in monitored facilities.

This is the reason yhat many other countries have had a much larger problem than in Thailand....isolation at home just doesn't work and can lead to other family members getting sick. 

[4reaL]

1 hour ago, vinny41 said:

Your statement is incorrect  Thai's are subject to 14 days quarantine  just like  everyone else

 

Not when they have been sneaking across a very porous border.....

Hope the exponential growth on the TH side is kept in check.

 

[khunjeff]

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

In addition, more than a million health volunteers will be deployed to knock on doors to see if anyone has sneaked across the border from Myanmar.

 

"Excuse me, hi, just wondering whether anyone here wants to admit to breaking the law so that I can report it?"

 

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Maj-General Narit Thawornwong, commander of the Pha Muang Force, said on Wednesday that he had met with relevant agencies to come up with a plan to block crossings via the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

 

...thereby making illegal crossings the only way for Thais on the other side to get back into Thailand. Great idea

[metisdead]

Some off topic posts, troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[starky]

On 12/3/2020 at 6:56 AM, Fex Bluse said:

It hasn't become an issue sooner because they have been lying from the very start. Which should surprise not a single person. 

 

The Thais had the foresight to know that performing extensive testing and reporting of cases would ultimately hurt their tourism dependent economy. 

 

So, they do almost no testing. And thus report almost no cases. Meanwhile, Thailand is the THE #1 DESTINATION FOR CHINESE FROM WUHAN and was one of the few countries in the world who kept allowing Chinese in during the early peaks of the virus in Wuhan. 

 

Yet, so many farang and other people around the world are daft enough to believe that Thailand somehow found unique success among thr world at combating the virus. 

 

So the summary is that Thais rely on people being gullible and fairly stupid, too, in many cases. 

Holy <deleted> then the country must be swamped with covid cases and the health services should be overwhelmed with the hundreds of thousands in intensive care and on ventilators right? Cos there is no way you would be able to cover a conspiracy of that magnitude right? And people get sick whether you test them or not right. People must literally dropping in the streets if they had so much exposure from people FROM WUHAN right?

[starky]

6 hours ago, DavisH said:

That's highly unlikely, as tey woudl have caused symptomatic cases ad this would have been detected py people turnign up to hospitals sick. Its nust not possuble to have hundreds or thousands of asyptomatic carriers and not one that shows symptoms which would be found by testing. 

Oh now dont get muddling all the conspiracy theories with common sense that just won't do and doesn't at all fit the narrative. Forget the US and Europe Thailand must be the number one virus hotspot in the world.

[kingofthemountain]

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[Nout]

On 12/2/2020 at 6:53 PM, JHicks said:

I'm looking on the bright side - a) the border is likely to be better policed in future, b) the way these women are being pilloried will make others think twice before doing the same, c) even allowing for others who were asymptomatic (so never went to the doctor, so never got picked up) the number of infectious people who've recently come across the border is probably small compared to the number that came in by air last December / January. Thailand was still able to keep a pretty good lid on it last time round, and that was from a standing start. This time they're better prepared, so I don't think it's hopeless. Things could go south of course but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Legalise all prostitution and drugs.

[bristolgeoff]

Can,t blame the farang this time at lest

[pokerface1]

On 12/2/2020 at 9:31 PM, snoop1130 said:

. She treats her cough, runny nose and body ache with over-the-counter drugs, and is helped by a Myanmar national to sneak into Thailand via a natural border in Chiang Mai on November 29.

Thai authorities need to get the message spread on the Myanmar side of the boarder that anyone attempting to cross the boarder illegality will be shot on sight or perhaps that's a little to harsh, so maybe 20 lashes instead.