In anticipation of a surge of infections among young children, Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) have set up a child health institute and community and home isolation facilities.

 

The Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health is ready to accommodate COVID-infected children aged 5-11, with 70 beds and five negative pressure rooms, according to Dr. Adisai Pattanatang, the institute’s director.

 

Moreover, the institute can provide health care to the group of children undergoing treatment at home or in community isolation facilities and those who require hospitalisation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-health-system-prepared-for-surge-in-covid-19-infections-among-young-children/

 

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It seems that the omicron variant is making a lot more children sick than the previous

strains did.  Sick children will mean sick parents, and so the spread goes on, as the parents have to go

shopping as well as working if they are not too sick themselves. So good luck all of you

as omicron is just starting.  USA is getting tons of people sick, and hopefully the majority of the

recent ones are catching omicron. Europe  and UK are also getting lots of sick people, which is

affecting their work forces. Some posters think that this pandemic will be over in weeks, but I 

think it will take months before the numbers get so low as to consider everything to be

Under Control, as some foolish political people have said in the past.