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By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Two Myanmar children, aged 8 and 9, have been placed in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 during the second round of RT-PCR tests conducted on Days 6-7 of their stay under the Phuket Sandbox scheme.

 

Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon confirmed the news yesterday while reporting nine new local cases of infection.

 

Despite the children testing positive during their second mandatory test under the Phuket Sandbox scheme, Dr Kusak did not speculate whether they were already infected but passed their first test on arriving in Phuket or whether they became infected while among Phuket’s general population.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/myanmar-children-latest-phuket-sandbox-covid-cases-80649.php

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Dr Kusak did not speculate whether they were already infected but passed their first test on arriving in Phuket or whether they became infected while among Phuket’s general population.

My money is on blaming the outside Phuket world

2 hours ago, webfact said:

PHUKET: Two Myanmar children, aged 8 and 9, have been placed in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 during the second round of RT-PCR tests conducted on Days 6-7 of their stay under the Phuket Sandbox scheme.

Here we go, children from Myanmar getting covid..... Now they will use that to blame them for destroying the pathetic sandbox set up.

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

My money is on blaming the outside Phuket world

Mine too.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The two Myanmar children were counted separately and were not added to the total number of infections recorded in Phuket since Apr 3, which as of yesterday stood at 785.

Well that makes perfect sense. Why count Myanmar children in the same tally as Thais?

What are people from Myanmar doing being allowed into Thailand/Phuket... there must be fewer vaccinated people there than Thailand.

2 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

What are people from Myanmar doing being allowed into Thailand/Phuket... there must be fewer vaccinated people there than Thailand.

 

If they tick all the many boxes for tourists, why not?

 

Most Thais arriving to Phuket from Bangkok don't tick any of them.

 

 

7 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

What are people from Myanmar doing being allowed into Thailand/Phuket... there must be fewer vaccinated people there than Thailand.

For some reason, it's on the approved list of "safe" countries