Two holding centres have been established in Jana and Ranot districts of Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla, to accommodate asymptomatic COVID-19 patients, as hospitals there are reaching capacity.

 

According to the disease control operation centre in Jana district, three villages in Ban Na sub-district have been locked down, after more than 100 villagers were found to be infected, with many others deemed to be at high risk and are waiting to be screened. A holding centre has been set up in the grounds of the Nurul Iman masjid, with a capacity to accommodate 80 people.

 

The other holding centre was set up in Tha Bon sub-district, of Ranot district, to accommodate asymptomatic cases from a canning factory, where 261 workers, out of about 1,000 already screened, have tested positive for the virus. The factory has almost 6,000 workers and many of them travel back and forth from their lodgings to the factory on daily basis.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/holding-centres-set-up-in-songkhla-for-asymptomatic-covid-19-cases-as-hospitals-fill-up/

 

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Wifey told me tonight that Songkhla is back in lock down after having 391 new cases in Songkhla itself and 905 workers infected working in 8 companies in an industrial area, i think, in the south east.