Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in and around Bangkok to enter ‘Home Isolation’

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Photo by Tuwaedaniya MERINGING / AFP

 

Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Samut Sakhon will enter a “Home Isolation” program, under remote supervision by medical personnel, according to Thailand’s Public Health Ministry (Monday), as a direct result of the hospital bed shortage in and around the capital.

 

Home isolation is for people under 60 years old who test positive for the coronavirus but are asymptomatic, generally in good health, live alone or with no more than one person, are not obese or suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart and blood vessel diseases, cerebrovascular disease or stroke, serious diabetes or other conditions that doctors may deem to be serious.

 

Recommendations during home isolation include no home visits, avoiding physical proximity with elderly people and children, with at least two metres distance observed, staying in separate rooms from others, refraining from sharing objects and eating with others, opening the windows, wearing masks at all times when leaving the room, washing hands when physical contact and contact with common objects cannot be avoided, separating laundry from others and using a separate toilet. If this is not possible, the patient should be the last one to use the toilet.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/asymptomatic-covid-19-cases-in-and-around-bangkok-to-enter-home-isolation/

 

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[ukrules]

This was always inevitable, just a matter of when....it happened a bit quicker than I thought it would.

 

Edited June 28, 2021 by ukrules

[sirineou]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Home isolation is for people under 60 years old who test positive for the coronavirus but are asymptomatic, generally in good health, live alone or with no more than one person, are not obese or suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart and blood vessel diseases, cerebrovascular disease or stroke, serious diabetes or other conditions that doctors may deem to be serious.

 

 That does not leave out many people.

Add to that "follow the rules and actually do the home quarantine" and it leaves five people. four of which are are probably agoraphobic anyway. 

[internationalism]

if living alone or with one another person (presumably not elderly), how can be:

"avoiding physical proximity with elderly people and children, with at least two metres distance observed, staying in separate rooms from others, refraining from sharing objects and eating with others, opening the windows, wearing masks at all times when leaving the room, washing hands when physical contact and contact with common objects cannot be avoided, separating laundry from others and using a separate toilet. If this is not possible, the patient should be the last one to use the toilet."

 

Never heard before about ban on opening windows - with air patogens it's the opposite. Ger fresh air in, but also sunshine into room. UVC rays do kill viruses, but also bacteria, fungus - those can lead to secondary infection, more difficult to deal, than just viral infection.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Recommendations during home isolation include no home visits, avoiding physical proximity with elderly people and children, with at least two metres distance observed, staying in separate rooms from others, refraining from sharing objects and eating with others, opening the windows, wearing masks at all times when leaving the room, washing hands when physical contact and contact with common objects cannot be avoided, separating laundry from others and using a separate toilet. If this is not possible, the patient should be the last one to use the toilet.

Another idea doomed to failure.

[edogthong]

I wish I could say that they made the right decision but they didn't. This wasn't a decision at all. They waited until this move was forced upon them. It boggles the mind how they didn't act months ago. I have absolutely no idea what they were waiting for or what they hoped would happen. 

[khunjeff]

2 hours ago, internationalism said:

Never heard before about ban on opening windows

 

The sentence in the report is poorly constructed, but they are trying to say that you SHOULD open the windows ("refraining from" applies only to "sharing objects and eating with others", not to the items that follow after).

[DefaultName]

Makes sense. 

IF you can trust asymptomatic people to stay home. 

As Thais routinely ignore all rules, regulations, and laws, unless they think they might get caught, I doubt they'll isolate properly.

[Khun Paul]

So the vast majority of expats as they are over 60 will be whisked into a hospital and bills racked up. Obvious is it not . 

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

the patient should be the last one to use the toilet

 Oh really!! What if other family members have "Bangkok Belly" and have to dash back to the loo??????

 

[nauseus]

This is what had to be done in the UK. Hospitals should care for those with severe symptoms. Home/self isolation and monitoring for others is sensible - as long as those isolated follow the rules.

[Caldera]

Most asymptomatic cases aren't even being discovered, thanks to a lack of testing, so they're not actually isolating anywhere!

[impulse]

Thai PBS has an article about opening 10 new hospitels for an additional 4,400 beds.  Win-win for a hotel industry devastated by the lockdowns. 

 

Maybe that (and allowing isolation at home) will encourage people to get tested, and discourage hospitals from test reluctance due to lack of beds.  Hard to know how bad it really is unless there's comprehensive testing that's not skewed by outside forces like lack of test kits or beds.