Foreign teachers go to Phuket "entertainment venue" and bring Covid back to school infecting dozens of students

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that the province of Samut Prakan recorded 64 new Covid-19 cases in a single day - 42 local infections and 22 brought in from outside.

 

It was the first time since the pandemic began that infections had been over 60 in a single day there.

 

Thirty two teachers and students at a well known Muang district private school have tested positive in a cluster. 

 

CDC spokesman Dr Opas Kankawinpong revealed that the infection had been brought back by two foreign teachers after they went to an "entertainment venue" in Phuket between April 2nd and 4th, a weekend.

 

They were back teaching and invigilating exams on Monday 5th until Thursday 8th at the school in Bang Plee. 

 

On that Thursday there was a farewell event for departing teachers at which many students were hugged, reported Dr Opas. 

 

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[nausea]

Like the way "entertainment venue" is in quotation marke. 

[ikke1959]

Samut Prakan had already a lot of Covid, Who has prove that the foreign teachers are the one who infected the others?? Easy to blame foreigners. Besides 3-4 April to Phuket  Average your incubation time is 5-6 days before you notice to be sick. So..... it is always very difficult to find out who infected who when. It is the chicken and the egg question

[JustAnotherFarang]

And on the same page, right hand side, you will see the following headline "Prayut tells the media to stop reporting about his ministers at nightclubs". 

 

This is Thailand where it is always easiest to blame others than to look at themselves

[Phuketshrew]

So Anutin was right about these filthy, disease spreading foreigners ....????

[SoilSpoil]

Which school is it? The same (Bang Phli branche), that literally hit the news lately wacking kids?

[BritManToo]

First cases of COVID in my village ....... a house full of students from MaeJo University.

Wonder if they had any foreign teachers?

[tallfarang]

1 hour ago, SoilSpoil said:

Which school is it? The same (Bang Phli branche), that literally hit the news lately wacking kids?

I don't want to name the school due to Thailand's defamation laws, but will say it was NOT an international school. 

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

CDC spokesman Dr Opas Kankawinpong revealed that the infection had been brought back by two foreign teachers after they went to an "entertainment venue" in Phuket between April 2nd and 4th, a weekend.

I'd like to see actual proof of that allegation and not speculation.

[jak2002003]

Those teachers can now get a load of cash and sue for defamation. 

[MasterBaker]

finally is our turn, looks like they run out of Myanmar and Cambodia scapegoats

Edited April 19, 2021 by MasterBaker

[apophyss]

34 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Those teachers can now get a load of cash and sue for defamation. 

No, he not thai !

 

(he just a farang)

[Bredbury Blue]

1 hour ago, tallfarang said:

I don't want to name the school due to Thailand's defamation laws, but will say it was NOT an international school. 

It's a bilingual school, which in recent times opened an international school on the same grounds. Bilingual school is on school holiday until May, I'm not sure about their international school. The cases relate to the international school.

 

I read a public apology to the school, parents, kids, etc, from the 2 international school teachers a short while back.

 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Bredbury Blue

[wombat]

with the pics ive seen from Phuket i am dubious to the credibility of the story

[wensiensheng]

Not to be picky, but shouldn’t the headline read “ foreign teachers go to phuket entertainment venue and catch Covid from Thai people, then go home and infect students”.

 

I mean if we are going the route of the blame game.

[happydays]

55 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I'd like to see actual proof of that allegation and not speculation.

Agreed. Unless the teachers had a negative test before going there is no proof. They could have been infected by the students.

[kaneko86]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

First cases of COVID in my village ....... a house full of students from MaeJo University.

Wonder if they had any foreign teachers?

 

No but I dated a student from Mae jo who was living at a student house about 10 days ago ????

[BritManToo]

Just now, kaneko86 said:

No but I dated a student from Mae jo who was living at a student house about 10 days ago ????

Better get tested!

[dave moir]

3 hours ago, JustAnotherFarang said:

And on the same page, right hand side, you will see the following headline "Prayut tells the media to stop reporting about his ministers at nightclubs". 

 

This is Thailand where it is always easiest to blame others than to look at themselves

Don't do as I do do as I say!????????????????

[Scouse123]

41 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Not to be picky, but shouldn’t the headline read “ foreign teachers go to phuket entertainment venue and catch Covid from Thai people, then go home and infect students”.

 

I mean if we are going the route of the blame game.

 

 

They can't do that, it's too near the truth and facts of how it occurred.

[Scouse123]

Instead of blaming the foreign teachers, why was the entertainment venue open putting people at risk?

 

It isn't Thailand, it's everywhere, Everybody wants to do what they want and then blame others for infections.

[vandeventer]

3 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

So Anutin was right about these filthy, disease spreading foreigners ....????

Only teachers that should have known better, If they were the ones who caused this spread of covid.

[Scouse123]

In my view the teachers who are mixing with large members of the public as in students, should have more damn sense that to be going to entertainment venues. They are supposed to be teachers and lead by example.

 

Second, What the hell are they hugging each other for in the midst of Covid19, at school just because somebody is leaving?

 

Safe space and distance, wash hands, wear a mask....what are these clowns thinking?

[xylophone]

49 minutes ago, wombat said:

with the pics ive seen from Phuket i am dubious to the credibility of the story

I'm not so sure about that because I was out on a few weekends prior to a big party in Patong, and saw and met with quite a few teachers who had come down from Bangkok as well as from the surrounds here.

 

And the night before Bangla was closed, I met with two teachers from Bangkok who were eating at the same restaurant, so it seems as if Phuket/Patong was a bit of a magnet for these people – – not to mention the many young students who frequented the place at the same time.

[misterphil]

Hugged the students? Must have been American teachers. Why not a traditional Wai ???? and adhere to social distancing? ????

[Sydebolle]

So take these two naughty, naughty teachers, skin them alive and invoke a witch burning - welcome to the 15th century. 

Just wondering, what else the chief clowns want to stick onto the dirty farang alias alien's backs! 

[bstafford214]

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

Not to be picky, but shouldn’t the headline read “ foreign teachers go to phuket entertainment venue and catch Covid from Thai people, then go home and infect students”.

 

I mean if we are going the route of the blame game.

But if they say that, then they admit blame for the problem. The Thais will never admit they are wrong or at fault, never, never, never. This is really what I hate here, they never wrong. 5555

[JeffersLos]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

It is the chicken and the egg question

 

They were at an entertainment venue. 

 

Who do you think came first? 

[ikke1959]

9 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

 

They were at an entertainment venue. 

 

Who do you think came first? 

any proof they were infected there?

 

[DogNo1]

Never admitting fault seems to be characteristic of some Vietnamese people too.  My half Vietnamese daughter never admits fault for anything.  This sometimes causes problems with her America-born children who are now all over 20.  It seems to be more of a problem with the two boys than the two girls.  Her mother is the same.  She never admits any fault.  It seems to be a feature of the culture.  Apparently you don't get any forgiveness for admitting faults.