Two local patients among 19 new Covid-19 cases

By THE NATION

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Saturday reported 19 new cases over a 24-hour period.

 

The  new patients included two domestic cases, 13 in  state quarantine and four who had not been quarantined in the designated places.

 

 

The domestic cases were a Thai woman, 30, in Sing Buri province and a man, 50, in Chiang Rai province.

 

The two patients had been in contact with infected patients.

 

In the case of the woman, Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, director-general of the communicable diseases department, said on Friday that she had taken the same Nok Air DD8717 flight to Don Mueang as a 25-year-old woman, who had secretly crossed over. The 25-year-old had then taken another flight to  Phichit province.

 

The other patients in  quarantine consisted of nine Thai women and four foreigners.

 

 

One Thai aged 19 had returned from the UK, one aged 26 came  from the Netherlands, a  24-year-old returned from Malaysia, three patients aged 19, 59 and 66, had returned from the US, one person, aged 47, came from Mexico, and two persons, aged 22 and 24, were from Myanmar.

 

The foreign patients were two Indian women, aged 22 and 27, from Sweden and India respectively; and two men – a Swiss, 66, and Dutch, 56 -- from Switzerland.

 

In addition, there were four people who were infected with Covid-19 but were not  quarantined in the provided places. These persons were one Myanmar man, aged 43, and three Thai nationals – two women aged 25 and a man, 32.

 

The Myanmar man had come to Thailand for a health checkup in Tak province’s Mae Sot district. The other three Thais allegedly crossed the border illegally via a natural channel.

 

Ministry activates emergency centres

 

The Public Health Ministry has instructed all provinces to open Emergency Operation Centres as part of the ministry's efforts to contain the outbreak.

 

The centres would evaluate and follow the outbreak situation in their respective provinces, providing correct information to the people, and opening a call centre for people at risk to report their cases, permanent secretary Kiatipoom Wongrajit said on Saturday.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399150?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

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The Chiang Rai outbreak is due to the government's hard assed policies on border crossing and pathetic army patrolling of known illegal routes. And yet all the blame is being out on the infected women. They were not able to return because of the immigration lockdown and do were forced to resort to illegal crossings. Prayuth & his mob have no idea what they are doing and will contribute to more uncontrollable situations because his minions either have no ability or have been bunged.

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Two local patients among 19 new Covid-19 cases

And climbing.

 

Bah Humbug... open up the borders... Tourism businesses are in dire straits... never mind the bullocks

Just now, LazySlipper said:

Bah Humbug... open up the borders... Tourism businesses are in dire straits... never mind the bullocks

oh... btw tongue in cheek...^v^