Phuket Health Chief urges New Year events be postponed

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Phuket Health Chief urges New Year events be postponed

By The Phuket News

 

Thai singer Palaphol Pholkongseng performs on Patong Beach at the Rim Lay Seafood Festival organised by Patong Municipality. Photo: PR Patong

 

PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Health Office (PPHO) Chief Thanit Sermkaew is calling for all large-scale events planned to be held to celebrate the New Year to be postponed as a health precaution amid the current COVID-19 outbreak emanating from Samut Sakhon, on the outskirts of Bangkok.

 

“I advise that year-end celebration events for the New Year be delayed for COVID-19 safety,” Dr Thanit told The Phuket News this morning (Dec 22).

 

Currently no public ‘Countdown’ events usually held in Phuket for the New Year, such as the Patong Countdown held on Patong Beach each year or the ‘Phuket Countdown’ held at Saphan Hin, near Phuket town, have been announced.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-health-chief-urges-new-year-events-be-postponed-78407.php

 

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[ChipButty]

Does that include restaurants and bars having New Year parties? I feel sorry for them guys who right now will be trying to get everything organised and find they have to cancel everything, Hope not!

[connda]

If the price to be paid to eradicate killer COVID is the destruction of the Thai economy, so be it.  What's more important?  Lives or someone's business?  You can rebuild a business.  You can't bring the dead back to life.  Lock everyone in their homes and close all businesses until COVID is removed from the Earth!