Phuket quarantine guests allowed to roam hotel areas

[webfact]

Phuket quarantine guests allowed to roam hotel areas

By The Phuket News

 

Phuket Vice Governor Pichet Panaphong at the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall yesterday (Jan 12). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: People arriving in Phuket placed under a mandatory 14-day quarantine are allowed to roam the hotel where they are staying, and are not confined to their room, the Phuket health chief has confirmed.

 

However, there will be harsh penalties for any people under quarantine found outside their hotel area, Dr Thanit Sermkaew, Chief of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO), told The Phuket News today (Jan 13).

 

Under the provincial order issued by Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew last Saturday (Jan 9), all people arriving in Phuket from the ‘highest-risk’ provinces must quarantine for 14 days at an Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) hotel or other appropriate venue after arriving in Phuket.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-quarantine-guests-allowed-to-roam-hotel-areas-78641.php

 

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[onebir]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

People arriving in Phuket placed under a mandatory 14-day quarantine are allowed to roam the hotel where they are staying, and are not confined to their room, the Phuket health chief has confirmed.

Phuket ASuperspreaderQ

[ezzra]

Some people has a misguided concepts of what quarantine in entailed and thus allow for situation of cross contamination...

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

However, there will be harsh penalties for any people under quarantine found outside their hotel area,

Talk about mixed messages.  

(from the link above)  The same guy  [Dr Thanit] said:
"Please do not go outside the hotel. That would be a good preventative measure in Phuket province," he added.

 

What a pathetic statement. "Harsh penalties", followed by "please".

No physical enforcement means people will do what they like.

[Shuya]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

arriving in Phuket from the ‘highest-risk’ provinces

They really are desperate to fill up those hotels... some of this "highest-risk" provinces have cases in the single digits. But hey, its Phuket after all.

[smedly]

OMG

 

and not all these people arrive and leave at the same time

 

How idiotic is that

 

No wonder the highest infection rates detected were from people in quarantine - at least until a few weeks ago

[smedly]

1 hour ago, Shuya said:

They really are desperate to fill up those hotels

you know why

 

think of an Abba song

[smedly]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Please do not go outside the hotel. That would be a good preventative measure in Phuket province

they don't care if it spreads inside the hotels the more that get infected in there the more money they make when they are quarantined to a hospital where the bills are massive 

[richard_smith237]

4 minutes ago, smedly said:

you know why

 

think of an Abba song

 

erm.... You want a man after midnight ? 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

People arriving in Phuket placed under a mandatory 14-day quarantine are allowed to roam the hotel where they are staying, and are not confined to their room, the Phuket health chief has confirmed.

He obviously doesn't grasp what "cross contamination" means... 

[bluesofa]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

2 hours ago, smedly said:

you know why

think of an Abba song

erm.... You want a man after midnight ? 

I was thinking:

Disillusion, Dream World, I Have A Dream, SOS, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All, You Owe Me One.

That's just to name a few that seem relevant.

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

7 hours ago, webfact said:

People arriving in Phuket placed under a mandatory 14-day quarantine are allowed to roam the hotel where they are staying, and are not confined to their room, the Phuket health chief has confirmed.

He obviously doesn't grasp what "cross contamination" means... 

I'm sure  he does. It means a person getting angry with the first one who passed on covid to them.

[Phuketshrew]

5 hours ago, Shuya said:

They really are desperate to fill up those hotels...

I think that may backfire as local tourists and staycationers (myself included) will avoid these ASQ hotels like the plague.

[SunsetT]

4 hours ago, smedly said:

No wonder the highest infection rates detected were from people in quarantine

Well of course! That is exactly what quarantine with 2 tests is meant to do!

[Srikcir]

'allowed to roam (ASQ) hotel where they are staying'

Not as liberal as those staying at ASQ golf resorts where it seems the only restriction is not leaving the property.

[CanadaSam]

12 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

will avoid these ASQ hotels like the plague.

 

You do realize you've created a really funny pun?