Bangkok intensifies efforts to limit spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant

[snoop1130]

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City health officials will be sent to two hotels in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district to collect specimens for testing from staff who were in close contact with the American businessman from Spain, who was identified to be Thailand’s first case of Omicron variant infection, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (Wednesday).

 

The move is part of the city administration’s pro-active and precautionary steps aimed at limiting any spread of the Omicron variant, following the initial detection of the easily transmissible variant in the country.

 

The governor said health officials will advise the managers of the two unnamed hotels to clean their hotels with disinfectants regularly, to instruct their staff to comply strictly with basic safety measures and to screen all the newly arriving guests.

 

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[brewsterbudgen]

That's OK then.

[poskat]

if there is anything that we have learned during this covid time around the world, its that nothing any government has done has halted the spread of the virus. by the time any variant is discovered, it's already spread too widely to be contained.

[2long]

This new variant is weak, but still governments around the world play on that as a bad thing... because its weakness means we don't know we have it, and might spread quicker.

WHO CARES?! If it's weak, let's all get it.

Big pharma are loving this.

[ukrules]

An exercise in futility.

[Geoffggi]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

City health officials will be sent to two hotels in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district to collect specimens for testing from staff who were in close contact with the American businessman from Spain, who was identified to be Thailand’s first case of Omicron variant infection, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (Wednesday).

They should also be sent to collect specimens from the two Thai ladies who have returned from Nigeria plus anyone they have been in contact with, this is not restricted to foreigners .........

[Don Chance]

There are lot of anti-vax farangs running around from Europe with only 10 day quarantine. Why would they let these people in to Thailand without legitimate exemption?

 

At any rate, Bangkok is getting nuts. People are so xenophobic.

[4MyEgo]

The sooner they realise the spread of this variant might be the catalyst we have all been waiting for to knock Delta off, the better, can you imagine no more fearmongering, no more control, just the return of the flu.

 

I see light at the end of the tunnel, or is that a big spot light blinding me ?

 

Edited December 8, 2021 by 4MyEgo

[AussieinThaiJim]

Get a booster shot now!

BioNTech and Pfizer said a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralize the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test and they could deliver an Omicron-based vaccine in March 2022 if needed.  

The variant has been reported in 57 nations and the number of patients needing hospitalization is likely to rise as it spreads, the World Health Organization said. We look at how Omicron is a wake-up call for vaccine developers.

[Promsak]

20 hours ago, 2long said:

This new variant is weak,

And your qualifications for saying this?