‘Green’ patients allowed home isolation

[snoop1130]

Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: More “Community Isolation” centres will be set up across Phuket and more ‘Green’-coded patients will be asked to observe quarantine at home, the island’s health chief announced yesterday (Sept 6).

 

According to a report by the Phuket office of the Public relations Department (PR Phuket), Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Kusak Kukiattikoon explained at the meeting of the Phuket Provincial Communicable Disease Committee at Provincial Hall yesterday that the move was to prevent a shortage of hospital beds available for patients infected with COVID-19.

 

However, the explanation openly contradicts daily reports by the PPHO itself highlighting the surplus of hospital beds available for COVID patients on the island.

 

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/green-patients-allowed-home-isolation-81317.php

 

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[Bkk Brian]

Thats handy, you no longer have to deny any of them escaping only to admit it the following day now

[Scrotobike]

Are there too many covid cases to fit in the litterbox?

[oldcpu]

This has been common place in other Thailand provinces for some time - so soon or later it was bound to take place in Phuket.

[stevenl]

Excellent, quarantine at home is sensible for those with minor symptoms.

[Aussieroaming]

Being asymptomatic isn't the same as being non infectious, so quarantining at home leads to further infection unless that person can isolate alone. 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

PHUKET: More “Community Isolation” centres will be set up across Phuket and more ‘Green’-coded patients will be asked to observe quarantine at home, the island’s health chief announced yesterday (Sept 6).

One way of getting the daily figures  down, seems to be working in the rest of the deep red zones.