Indoor Celebration Events Prohibited for New Year

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

The Ministry of Public Health is prohibiting indoor New Year celebration activities and advising organizers to instead host open-air events while maintaining strict COIVD-19 prevention measures.

 

Dr. Kiatipoom Wongrachit, permanent secretary for the Ministry of Public Health, said that despite the decreasing number of cases, the ministry is concerned about the possibility of new outbreaks due to activities and traveling during the New Year holidays.

 

The ministry is advising people to organize small events and ensure that participants are vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19 prior to attending. Events should be held in open-air venues with prevention measures in place, including ensuring that attendees wear masks, practice social distancing and maintain personal hygiene.

 

Dr. Kiatipoom added that private businesses are only allowed to host countdown events or prayer activities at outdoor venues and strictly follow the COVID-Free Setting guidelines.

 

Officials from the ministry will also cooperate with other departments to maintain safety measures and prevent people from drinking alcohol outside of venues or designated time periods to ensure that everyone remains safe during the New Year holidays.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-12-26

 

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[Andreas2]

Not all Omicron news are bad news.

 

[connda]

2 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The Ministry of Public Health is prohibiting indoor New Year celebration activities and advising organizers to instead host open-air events while maintaining strict COIVD-19 prevention measures.

 

Dr. Kiatipoom Wongrachit, permanent secretary for the Ministry of Public Health, said that despite the decreasing number of cases, the ministry is concerned about the possibility of new outbreaks due to activities and traveling during the New Year holidays.

I'd say a massive outbreak of Omicron is pretty much a given after New Years.  And for the same reasons as a massive outbreak of Delta occurred after Sonkran.

Edited December 26, 2021 by connda

[tomster]

55 minutes ago, connda said:

I'd say a massive outbreak of Omicron is pretty much a given after New Years.  And for the same reasons as a massive outbreak of Delta occurred after Sonkran.

Hopefully. Then we can end this charade once and for all. 

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The ministry is advising people to organize small events and ensure that participants are vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19 prior to attending. Events should be held in open-air venues with prevention measures in place, including ensuring that attendees wear masks, practice social distancing and maintain personal hygiene.

Best of luck... 

[brucegoniners]

Cancel the outdoor countdown events too. There will be too many people jammed together. It's just not worth it.

[dunroaming]

8 hours ago, Andreas2 said:

Not all Omicron news are bad news.

 

This is a Fox news report so has zero credibility.  Death count in the UK on Christmas day was 29 with 366 hospital admissions.  It is true that the severity level for Omicrom is lower but that (in the UK) is not the point.  The NHS are beyond full stretch and have been since before the Omicron variant arrived.  They cannot cope with any increase in hospitalisations and are struggling to cope as it is.

 

Good news my a*se!

[Petey11]

1 hour ago, dunroaming said:

This is a Fox news report so has zero credibility.  Death count in the UK on Christmas day was 29 with 366 hospital admissions.  It is true that the severity level for Omicrom is lower but that (in the UK) is not the point.  The NHS are beyond full stretch and have been since before the Omicron variant arrived.  They cannot cope with any increase in hospitalisations and are struggling to cope as it is.

 

Good news my a*se!

I believe the problem in UK now is staff shortage due to number of people isolating. Think I heard that last week the NHS had 19000 staff off either sick or isolating. The isolation has just been cut to 7 days if you test negative on day 6 and 7 with an ATK.

These staff shortages will begin to affect all services at some point, public and private.

[Kinnock]

Not sure what this means in practice?  Just 'advising' or is it a legal requirement.  Also contradicts recent announcements from other Government departments.

 

I hope the new PM (Anutin?) can at least appoint one, single official spokes-person, rather than the current situation where anyone and his dog, cat and hamster can make an announcement.

[timendres]

19 hours ago, dunroaming said:

This is a Fox news report so has zero credibility. 

So, if Dr. Fauci was on Fox News, that would discredit him? I am definitely in the camp that the MSM in the US is the worst in history, but dismissing credible new reports based on who airs it seems counterproductive.

[dunroaming]

3 hours ago, timendres said:

So, if Dr. Fauci was on Fox News, that would discredit him? I am definitely in the camp that the MSM in the US is the worst in history, but dismissing credible new reports based on who airs it seems counterproductive.

I take your point but it's like (in the UK) reading something in The Sun or Star newspapers and giving it any credibility whatsoever. Am I over critical?  Yes probably.

[dunroaming]

21 hours ago, Petey11 said:

I believe the problem in UK now is staff shortage due to number of people isolating. Think I heard that last week the NHS had 19000 staff off either sick or isolating. The isolation has just been cut to 7 days if you test negative on day 6 and 7 with an ATK.

These staff shortages will begin to affect all services at some point, public and private.

You are quite right. I don't want to beat the old Brexit drum again but our local main hospitals lost almost 40% of their nurses through that and numerous doctors and specialists too.  Add to that the current number of staff off with Covid and exhaustion and it is no wonder we are in this terrible situation.