Bangkok schools closed for 12 days to contain outbreak

[snoop1130]

Bangkok schools closed for 12 days to contain outbreak

By The Nation

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Wednesday ordered all 437 schools and 299 kindergartens under its jurisdiction to close for 12 days from tomorrow to contain the latest Covid-19 outbreak. 

 

The order comes after the Communicable Disease Committee (CDC) announced 10 measures to prevent the virus from spreading in crowded areas such as entertainment venues, markets and boxing stadiums, said BMA spokesperson Pongsakorn Kwanmuang.

 

The BMA is conducting Covid-19 tests at 478 markets in the capital, following an outbreak at a wholesale prawn market just 45 kilometres south of Bangkok in Samut Sakhon. Testing at about 100 Bangkok markets had so far been completed, Pongsakorn said.

 

"We only have four weeks to control the disease. Global statics show that 88 per cent of outbreaks spread to become more severe. But if we can control [the Samut Sakhon outbreak] in four weeks, we may join the 12 per cent that snuffed out the threat. Hence the meeting passed a resolution that 437 BMA-run schools and 299 child centres will be closed for 12 days to reduce social mixing, starting from 24 December”, he said.

 

He also advised government and private sector staff to work from home during the 12 days.

 

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[DeusExMachinaBKK]

Don’t most schools close for the holidays from Dec 25th - Jan 4th anyways? My son’s does.

[surangw]

universities too?
 

[teacherclaire]

1 hour ago, DeusExMachinaBKK said:

Don’t most schools close for the holidays from Dec 25th - Jan 4th anyways? My son’s does.

 

     

Nope, around Christmas is usually class. The 1st of January this year falls on a weekend.

 

Maybe some schools make Monday and Tuesday a holiday.

 

  The director decides if the school stays open.

[Jingthing]

I just saw an item today saying the so called U.K. fast spreading strain spreads more in children than before. I wonder if the strain brought in from Myanmar is related to that?

[RichardColeman]

On the negative side, my daughter misses yet more school after umpteenth bank holiday to boost empty hotels, on the plus side I suppose she can enjoy Christmas day without going in.

[jaiyen]

So do they think that children are spreading it ?

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, DeusExMachinaBKK said:

Don’t most schools close for the holidays from Dec 25th - Jan 4th anyways? My son’s does.

Schools in my area Nakhon Pathom have been closed since Monday 21st.... maybe they know more than is being let on.

[Happyman567]

Thais kids just love school because they hardly have to go to school Be lucky to do 4 months per year lol

[colinneil]

11 minutes ago, Happyman567 said:

Thais kids just love school because they hardly have to go to school Be lucky to do 4 months per year lol

Where you get that info from?

All government schools in Thailand have to be open for 200 days every year.

[CharlieH]

3 hours ago, jaiyen said:

So do they think that children are spreading it ?

Its my understaning from the local school here, that also closed early, that the concern with kids is that you have parents from a wide area, all coming to get the kids, and mixing, and all the family members returning home from all over the country for the holiday period makes for a dangerous mix. Then those same children  freely mixing and playing in close proximity to others in school.

 

Here they stopped parents entering the school grounds to collect their children and had to collect them from the gate.

[Elkski]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He also advised government and private sector staff to work from home during the 12 days.

Does this mean embassies and consulates will  close?

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Schools in my area Nakhon Pathom have been closed since Monday 21st.... maybe they know more than is being let on.

What about the Uni (Teachers), as my Daughter attends that?