Picture: Daily News

 

Sixteen people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the first major cluster detected on the holiday island of Koh Samui in the south of Thailand. 

 

Hundreds more are being traced and tested as officials scurry to contain the outbreak.

 

It comes at a time when the island is just two weeks into its "Samui Plus Model" reopening to foreign tourists. 

 

The cluster was at The Black Bamboo Club. All people who visited there from 16th to 23rd July are asked to come forward and be tested. 

 

Daily News reported that 16 people out of 41 who attended a birthday party at the club had tested positive Five hundred others including close contacts have been tested at a pavillion in the Chaweng area. 

 

The cluster came to light after a female yoga teacher at a Chaweng fitness center went in for a test and was confirmed positive.

 

She had attended the birthday party.

 

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

 

Results from the pro-active testing would be announced shortly, said the authorities.

 

One more foreigner on the Samui Plus Model scheme is suspected of having Covid and that is being handled separately. 

 

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Well, well, well, there's a surprise!  Stop Samui sandbox now!

 

The sixteen is already thirty eight.

54 minutes ago, phetphet said:

The sixteen is already thirty eight.

I believe you are wrong.  It was 16 and now another 38 cases as far as I understand.

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

 

Might have been better not to mention just yet that they will charge the attendees. How many who did not get tested yet will think twice about getting into the "system"

Come forward to get tested your cardboard box is waiting ????

38 minutes ago, huberthammer said:

I believe you are wrong.  It was 16 and now another 38 cases as far as I understand.

It's 16 yesterday and 38 new today from the so-called Black Bamboo-cluster, furthermore 4 others yesterday and 1 today, making the total of 20 + 39.

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

You can lock down all you want, but numbers won't fall until people stop thinking "everyone else can catch covid but not me".

 

Anti-government types like to blame the government, but individuals need to start acting responsibly.

and how much testing were they doing before opening up - I suspect very little

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

And right there is how to scare people away from getting tested and let them hide out undetected while spreading it more !! ????????????
Also must have been some party because it went on over a week ????????

Edited July 29, 20214 yr by ronster

I suppose the authorities must be trying to find where and who from the yoga teacher who seems to be the main spreader, picked it up in the first place.

There have been very few cases until recently when people from red zones seems to be bringing it in.

I fear the cat is well and truly out of the bag now.

Edited July 29, 20214 yr by phetphet

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

Oh dear, what a shame... never mind.

2 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Anti-government types like to blame the government, but individuals need to start acting responsibly

So Koh Tao to follow shortly... Pipats dream is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare... same as Bangkok was thought to be immune, that didn't workout too well either.

so, lets reward the irresponbile pricks there by giving them the best vaccs and send the upcountry folks who are more responsible in their actions regarding covid the least effective vaccine.

Just let them stew in their own juices I say. 

a birthday party, whoodi <deleted>--ing do.  so important an occasion.

Oh yes, andthe organizers and attendees will not be prosceuted at all .  if they are thai that is!!!  rest assured.

1 hour ago, smedly said:

and how much testing were they doing before opening up - I suspect very little

what difference does that make????  These types of sefl centered idiots would be doing this no matter what.

To many children in the sandbox.

It was obvious already two weeks ago that this will happen sooner or later.

Bars open. Selling alcohol. No masks. No social distancing.

Police and Surathani / Koh Samui Government ? Blind ? Not interested at all ?

Here we go ....

 

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

The sixteen is already thirty eight.

 

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

The sixteen is already thirty eight.

And by now a lot more

52 minutes ago, Almer said:

 

And by now a lot more

Correct. Someone I know spoke to a friend of one of the women who were there one night and the friend went and got tested yesterday as she wanted to know if had covid or not . Today got results back saying she had it . 
Then yesterday and today the person I know felt unwell and today decided to go to hospital to check also after the friend contracted it  . Now isolating at home awaiting results . 

Always the same thing :  people ( idiots ) do the wrong thing (   no distance, no masks etc ... ), have Covid and in a few days more and more infected people 

it started like this in Bangkok, some VIP did the same and now we know the result 

there will be always some people ( in any countries ) who think they are more clever than the others 

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

I suppose the authorities must be trying to find where and who from the yoga teacher who seems to be the main spreader, picked it up in the first place.

There have been very few cases until recently when people from red zones seems to be bringing it in.

I fear the cat is well and truly out of the bag now.

Never liked Yoga and it's followers, strange people they always have been ????

A post denigrating and calling Chinese vaccines useless and referring to it with derogatory names has been removed.

 

Whilst it may be less effective in certain cases ie Delta strain it is by no means useless. At the end of the day this is a Thai government sponsored vaccine and the forum and or yourself can get in trouble for comments like this so stop it.

What happens in the Sandbox stays in the sanbox

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Koh Samui district chief Theerapong Chuaychu said that the organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

Samui the party island, so many think they are immune from Covid and immune from the law.

It was only a matter of time before this would happen.

First Phuket, followed by Samui and I wonder if Kho Tao will make it a hat-rick?

Pipat calls it the "bubble and seal" scheme, looks like the bubble has burst and the seal is leaking.

On 7/29/2021 at 5:42 AM, webfact said:

All people who visited there from 16th to 23rd July are asked to come forward and be tested. 

 

The organisers of the party and all attendees would be prosecuted for breaking the law. 

 

I don't expect many people going to be tested, then. ????