Covid-19: Timeline of 5 infected cases in Bangkok

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Timeline of 5 infected cases in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Wednesday announced the timeline of five Covid-19 patients who are medical personnel at Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) facilities.

 

BMA spokesperson Pongsakorn “Earth” Kwanmuang posted on his Facebook page that the medical personnel may have become infected by coming into contact with people undergoing self-isolation or other medical personnel.

 

He said the BMA and the Department of Disease Control have disinfected the patients’ residences and instructed medical personnel to perform their duties with caution and take a Covid-19 test immediately if they have any symptoms.

 

“We believe we can contain the spread of the disease in Bangkok until a vaccine arrives, so we would like to ask venues at risk of infection to strictly abide by BMA measures and recommendations,” he said.

 

“Moreover, everyone must protect themselves from the disease by wearing a face mask, washing your hands regularly, maintaining social distance and avoid going to risky areas,” he added.

 

The timeline of the five medical personnel are:

 

Patient one: female, 26

On December 1, she took over a shift from another medical worker (the third patient) at an ASQ facility in Bangkok.

 

On December 2, she took a MRT train to a job interview at a hospital in Thonburi. She returned from the hospital by a BTS train.

 

On December 3, she worked at a private hospital. She got a fever at 12 noon, so she took a Covid-19 test at 7pm.

On December 4, she received medical treatment at a private hospital. Her Covid-19 test came back positive.

 

Patient two: female, 40

On December 2, she went to an ASQ facility in Bangkok to collect laboratory samples and train another worker (the fourth patient) without wearing a face mask. She then went to her relatives’ house in Chachoengsao by personal car.

 

On December 3, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok and sent a Covid-19 patient to hospital.

 

On December 4, she took a Covid-19 test under ASQ in Bangkok. She went for medical treatment at a private hospital before her test came back positive the same day.

 

Patient three: female, 32

On December 2, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok with the first patient.

 

On December 3, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok.

 

On December 4, she took a Covid-19 test at an ASQ facility in Bangkok. She had sore throat that day.

 

On December 6, she received medical treatment at a private hospital. Her Covid-19 test was positive at 7pm.

 

Patient four: female, 25

On November 27, she took a rest from work with the second patient, then measured the temperature of a Russian mother and daughter.

 

On November 28, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok and had lunch with the first and second patients. She bought a meal at Wat Khaek Market but was wearing a face mask.

 

From November 29 to December 1, she had symptoms such as a runny nose and cough.

 

On December 2, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok and had a meal with the second patient.

 

On December 5, she finally took a Covid-19 test. She had diarrhoea that day.

 

On December 6, her Covid-19 test came back positive.

 

Patient five: female, 27

On December 3, she worked at an ASQ facility in Bangkok and had a meal with one of the staff.

 

On December 4, she and the second patient conducted a swab test under ASQ in Bangkok. She then had a shift in a private hospital emergency room from 3pm to 11pm.

 

On December 5, she took a Covid-19 test as her co-workers were found to be infected.

 

On December 6, the test resulted was positive, so she went for medical treatment to a private hospital.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399398

 

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Now there is a reason for Anutin to shut his Piehole, and start to think about the spread now that is occurring.  She, Case 1, traveled by MRT, which was probably packed like always, but everyone does where a mask.  However, how many use the hand sanitizer, few if any anymore.  I watch as folks adjust there masks play with their eyes and noses when I use the MRT and BTS.  

 

BNH has been posted as having staff members who were working an ASQ who had tested positive for Covid.

 

www.nationthailand.com/news/30399395

 

BNH Hospital confirmed that four of its health staff working in an alternative state quarantine (ASQ) unit in Bangkok have tested positive for Covid-19.

 

The announcement on Wednesday came shortly after the Department of Disease Control reported that some health workers in alternative state quarantine had contracted Covid-19 after one of them took the temperature of a family of three in ASQ between November 24 and 27.

Edited December 10, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[Phuketshrew]

Move on, nothing to see here. It's all out of under control ...

[Cake Monster]

If the health Services are having such problems with Staff Etc with just a few people in ASQ, then it will be prudent indeed to re-close all the Borders, as they are never going to cope with a possible Outbreak after Tourists arrive.

Number 2 Staff Trained number 4 Staff without a Mask. !!!!!!!!!, and then drove to a relatives House.

Can it possibly get any more incompetent and stupid than this ?

Edited December 10, 2020 by Cake Monster

[Srikcir]

"take a Covid-19 test immediately if they have any symptoms"

If symptomatic, then too late for possible spread of infection.

Use testing as a pre-emptive measure for those people likely to be in contact with vulnerable people.

[Peabody]

How many innocents in ASQ are getting infected by the people that are supposed to be caring for them? Rather expensive proposition when they get shifted to the hospital after testing positive.

These "timelines" have so many holes.

[teacherclaire]

I pretty much doubt that other countries take the virus as serious as Thailand does.

 

    It's indeed Trump's fault that so many people in the US had and have to die.

 

       Better to lose your job than losing your life. 

 

   

[teacherclaire]

8 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

If the health Services are having such problems with Staff Etc with just a few people in ASQ, then it will be prudent indeed to re-close all the Borders, as they are never going to cope with a possible Outbreak after Tourists arrive.

Number 2 Staff Trained number 4 Staff without a Mask. !!!!!!!!!, and then drove to a relatives House.

Can it possibly get any more incompetent and stupid than this ?

Please look at other countries and then decide who deserves to be called incompetent.

 

These people have a lot of stress, it's not only the mask that can cause an infection. 

 

Anything that an infected person had touched can be dangerous. My niece is a doctor in Germany and their stress is unbelievable.

 

Working overtime is normal these days. Even retired doctors and medical personal were reinforced in some states. 

 

You can't call it a hoax what plenty of Americans did only weeks ago when they went on the streets with posters that the virus doesn't exist. 

 

That's what I'd call incompetence. Or is it stupidity? Perhaps both.