Phuket Provincial Hall car park building to become another COVID Care Center

PPAO workers sanitise areas at the old Phuket Prison in Phuket Town yesterday (Aug 17), where more than 260 asymptomatic COVID-infected people are being held. Photo: PPAO

By The Phuket News

PHUKET: The parking lot building of the still-incomplete new Phuket Provincial Hall is planned to be the second “COVID-19 Care Center” (CCC) for migrant workers in Muang District, as the first one at the old Phuket Prison is likely to meet full capacity soon, Phuket Vice Governor Pichet Panapong revealed this morning (Aug 18).

“Right now, our CCC [at Phuket Prison] has a full capacity for 420 people, and 260 people are now staying there. We have space left for only 160 more people to be quarantined at the centre,” V/Gov Pichet said during a live broadcast from the Phuket Sandbox Emergency Operation Center (EOC) located at the Phuket Provincial Police headquarters in Phuket Town.

“We have no idea how many more people we will find test positive,” he added.

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