All schools, kindergartens and child development centres in Thailand’s northeastern province of Khon Kaen have been ordered to close until July 16th amid an ongoing surge of COVID-19 infections in the province and elsewhere.

 

Boarding education institutes, including those teaching children with special needs, have been sealed, with children remaining in the compounds and parental visits barred until July 16th, according to yesterday’s announcement, citing concerns over the current rapid spread of the coronavirus.

 

Khon Kaen ranks 34th out of the country’s 77 provinces with the most COVID-19 infections in the current wave, with 667 reported between April 1st and July 1st. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/all-schools-kindergartens-in-khon-kaen-closed-till-july-16-amid-covid-19-spread/

 

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Same in Udon

50 minutes ago, webfact said:

Boarding education institutes, including those teaching children with special needs, have been sealed, with children remaining in the compounds and parental visits barred until July 16th

oh dear, did I serously just read that ?

3 hours ago, smedly said:

oh dear, did I serously just read that ?

Shocking, if true.  Hopefully, it's been lost in translation!

A Facebook post suggested that three children had died from her school in Buriram. So apparently not true, that was the first time I got worried about Covid (Children don't die of Covid unless they are seriously afflicted with other health problems).

Same in Kalasin. Why am I beginning to get the feeling that Thailand, so often behind the rest of the world in so many things, is about to get hit with numbers seen in the West a year ago. Complacency - we've have had no Covid in Thailand because we didn't test - combined with an arrogant government and remarkable ignorance - my wife was told to drink ginger and lime juice to avoid getting Covid - is about to hit home. They couldn't even begin the Phuket sandbox without someone arriving there from Bangkok testing positive on the very first day.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Boarding education institutes, including those teaching children with special needs, have been sealed, with children remaining in the compounds and parental visits barred until July 16th,

That's not going to go down well.

22 hours ago, JoePai said:

Same in Udon

Son's private school in Udon closed on June 13th, tentative opening on July 19th.

Classes are being done via Zoom, and if the numbers keep going up I am not betting on opening in July.