The administration of Bang Lamung district in Thailand’s Chon Buri province, which includes Pattaya, is making preparations to convert hotels into “hospitels” with a capacity to accommodate 2,500 COVID-19 patients initially, if daily infections continue to rise steadily.

 

Chon Buri province may also be declared a COVID-19 “red zone” again, as the province saw 769 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours. The daily infection rate has overtaken Bangkok’s top spot since Sunday.

 

Cumulative infections in the province, since last April, have soared to 115,902, with more than 4,000 people still being treated in hospitals. The death toll is 794, according to the provincial health office.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pattaya-hotels-to-open-as-isolation-facilities-for-covid-19-patients/

 

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When they have tens of thousands of cases every day all these rules and regulations will be abandoned.
 

4 minutes ago, ukrules said:

When they have tens of thousands of cases every day all these rules and regulations will be abandoned.
 

The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase.

In the same way you can't be called a "guest" at a hospital, you can't be a "patient" at a hotel.

 

However you can now be called an internee at both establishments...

So the isolation at home is now out the window?

19 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase.

The official regulations will be ignored when the country is overwhelmed with cases.

 

I'm sure they will still be locking up foreigners but for the vast majority of the population nothing will happen - it will be ignored and allowed to play out.

 

Remember, they said it's 'under control' - believe those words because they are the truth, nothing is happening that's not allowed to happen, perhaps not officially according to the law but it's allowed all the same.

 

They can't open the floodgates and deliberately welcome Omicron with open arms, but they sure could have kept it out for months by cancelling the arrival of all the 'test and go' tourists which they chose not to do. There's a reason for that.

I must laugh to those who belived the  governour what he said 2 days ago about not closing down.

I would not take the chance to go outside eat and drink.U can end up in 10 days in a hospitel.

A trolling comment and reply to it have been removed.

 

33 minutes ago, ukrules said:

The official regulations will be ignored when the country is overwhelmed with cases.

 

I'm sure they will still be locking up foreigners but for the vast majority of the population nothing will happen - it will be ignored and allowed to play out.

 

Remember, they said it's 'under control' - believe those words because they are the truth, nothing is happening that's not allowed to happen, perhaps not officially according to the law but it's allowed all the same.

 

They can't open the floodgates and deliberately welcome Omicron with open arms, but they sure could have kept it out for months by cancelling the arrival of all the 'test and go' tourists which they chose not to do. There's a reason for that.

As covid cases diminish so do the rules  and regulations in Thailand  and elsewhere. The opposite  hold true. Interestingly. The OP talks  about rules and regulations  but the article  was not about new rules but simple the  enlarged availability of medical  facilities due to crowded hospitals  I live near such a quarantine  hospital. There were nine others. They were exclusively  for Thais not paranoid farang. Some people might think your comment to be a  long winded rant, littered with contradictions, innacuracies and suppositions  ranging over a wide range of subjects not related to the article  and serving no real purpose.

1 hour ago, Gsxrnz said:

In the same way you can't be called a "guest" at a hospital, you can't be a "patient" at a hotel.

 

However you can now be called an internee at both establishments...

Not with any degree of accuracy  given what real internment camps are. It's a very good  idea for the authorities  to prepare  sanctuaries with medical  support staff available  to take care of people. They are not places of internment at all. To suggest so is delusional and offensive.

59 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Not with any degree of accuracy  given what real internment camps are. It's a very good  idea for the authorities  to prepare  sanctuaries with medical  support staff available  to take care of people. They are not places of internment at all. To suggest so is delusional and offensive.

They're covid prisons

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

They're covid prisons

No they are not. They sanctuaries  set up in an effort  to contain Covid-19. When similar schemes were set up in the rest of world notably  Europe  and the UK you did not call them prisons. Why not?

14 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

The opposite! As covid cases rise so regulations increase.

Yes, of course they will, and likely the enforcement of them too. 

How do you get out of one of these hotels? Mandatory 14 days or what ?  Geting serious when you are swept up on the street by authorities and held against your will for who knows how long. Scary days, especially if it is to control Omicron.

12 hours ago, ukrules said:

They're covid prisons

Nuh, definitely Sanctuary - as in Logan's Run.  

When Omicron takes hold there will not be enough hotels in the whole of Thailand to quarantine the infected people.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The administration of Bang Lamung district in Thailand’s Chon Buri province, which includes Pattaya, is making preparations to convert hotels into “hospitels” with a capacity to accommodate 2,500 COVID-19 patients initially, if daily infections continue to rise steadily

Some business at last.

If my experience of this Morning is anything to go by, its not before time to set up these Hospitels.

Had to take my Wife to the Banglamung Hospital for a regular checkup.

Arrived at 07.10 , and the outside of the Hospital was rammed.

There were literally Hundreds of people sitting under a Canopy to await testing I guess.

We went inside, and the place was almost deserted, unlike usual.

When the missus asked why it was so quiet, she was told that many of the Doctors were not working as they were scared of catching Covid.

My Wife was to have had a Blood Test, and that did not happen. Then to see a Doctor, and that also did not happen. She was to get her Meds after seeing the Doc, and this did not also happen, and she was told her meds would be sent through the Post to Her ASAP.

Looks like an almost melt down situation to me.

 

10 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

If my experience of this Morning is anything to go by, its not before time to set up these Hospitels.

Had to take my Wife to the Banglamung Hospital for a regular checkup.

Arrived at 07.10 , and the outside of the Hospital was rammed.

There were literally Hundreds of people sitting under a Canopy to await testing I guess.

We went inside, and the place was almost deserted, unlike usual.

When the missus asked why it was so quiet, she was told that many of the Doctors were not working as they were scared of catching Covid.

My Wife was to have had a Blood Test, and that did not happen. Then to see a Doctor, and that also did not happen. She was to get her Meds after seeing the Doc, and this did not also happen, and she was told her meds would be sent through the Post to Her ASAP.

Looks like an almost melt down situation to me.

 

So much for their hypocritic hippocratic oath.

 

Nosophobic medical staff are about as useful as an outdoor squatter on the subs the Navy want to buy. 

 

Note: If the Navy are reading this, that was a joke and not a design suggestion. 

If they had cancelled Countdown like Bangkok then Bangkok bar flies wouldn't have flocked into Pattaya bringing a spike much higher than Bangkok. Own goal I think. Can't fix stupid! (Did look like Pattaya expats also took advantage of such lassitude and pub crawls were the name of the game. Chickens coming home to roost- sorry for the bird flu parody) 

20 hours ago, sungod said:

So the isolation at home is now out the window?

Quarantining requires windows to be shut

I spent 2 weeks in one of these covid “hospitels” back in July after testing positive for covid during ASQ. They moved me from ASQ and transferred me by ambulance to the “hospitel” which was the  Citrus Grand Hotel in south Pattaya. My insurance covered it. I was sick for a week and recovered but they made everyone stay 2 weeks. I was the only foreigner in there. All the other patients were Thai. Its not a very comfortable place to be in and it makes having covid worse and more stressful than it needs to be. Every meal was terrible and cold, a few times I could not identify what the meat even was, you’re only allowed to drink water. Nobody spoke english except the doctor who I never actually saw, only spoke to him on the phone. No special amenities, deliveries or anything like that. They let me out of the room a few times to get chest x rays on site and have blood drawn. Overall a very bad experience that I’ll likely never forget.

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Some business at last.

Hotel California......you can never leave.

20 hours ago, ukrules said:

They're covid prisons

You could say that about every quarantine hotel in the world.

I did "time" at the Gatwick Holiday Inn.