Bangkok seals off Italian-Thai construction site as Covid cases surging

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By Panithan Onthaworn

 

Authorities have ordered the closure of an Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD)’s construction site in Lak Si, Bangkok, and are preventing workers from leaving the area for at least 10 days to contain a recent spike in Covid-19 infections. 

 

The construction site is located at Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 25, or Soi Yai Phon. Laksi District director Sombat Kanokthipwan said there were over 380 workers infected with Covid-19 over the past week. 

 

Sombat instructed the operator to isolate and transfer the patients for medical care, as well as separate the high-risk group from others and disinfect the area.

 

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[Bkk Brian]

Back to bubble and seal and let herd immunity develop within the sites...........thought we saw the end of this last year..sad

[Oxx]

Didn't the Nazis do something similar Poland? Called "ghettos", I think.  That is widely considered a human rights abuse.  So is this.

 

 

 

 

[smedly]

just lock them all in - ##

 

all for a mild cold

 

let omicron spread, enough of this insanity, it is the best immunity to covid you could possibly get

[connda]

When the rest of the world returns to normal, only a handful of countries like Thailand will simply refuse to live with the virus.

[peter zwart]

Yep, make sense. That will stop Omicron.

[Enoon]

"separate the high risk group"

 

People with a vulnerable health condition and the elderley?

 

Should they have been working on a building site in the first place?

 

 

Edited February 18, 2022 by Enoon

[ukrules]

34 minutes ago, connda said:

When the rest of the world returns to normal, only a handful of countries like Thailand will simply refuse to live with the virus.

It will be China and those who do what China tell them to do for various reasons.

 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Back to bubble and seal and let herd immunity develop within the sites...........thought we saw the end of this last year..sad

Things are worse than they are letting on.

[brommers]

When are the likes of Prayuth & Anutin going to concede that inbound tourists and dirty farangs are in fact not the cause of community hotspots? Huge outbreaks in cities across this country are only caused by local transmission but measures to prevent this and cope with the outbreaks are pitiful. The huge resources devoted to tourist T&T should be switched immediately to deal with these major hotspots instead of pandering to Thai xenophobia.

[hotchilli]

At this rate Saudi might ask Thailand not to send any slaves.

[richard_smith237]

This would only happen to migrant labor forces... 

 

Would the seal off a factory full of Thai workers ??? - that remains to be seen, but its clear that Thailand sees its migrant workforce as something sub-human....

 

Meanwhile everyone else in Bangkok gets on and contracting Coivid-19 (likely Omicron) on a daily basis. 

In-Laws both have it - caught from wherever they have been. 

Son has it, and plenty of others in his school - clearly caught from there. 

Wife has it, either caught from Son, or from her Gym where others have also caught it. 

 

I know so many people who have recently caught Covid-19 recently, yet the authorities are not shutting down gyms, shopping malls, schools etc (which I agree with btw), but they can’t help themselves feigning the faux outrage at those feckless dirty labourers spreading disease...  lock-em-in....     

 

It’s outrageous treatment - Thailand has its migrant labourers exactly where they want them - allow them plenty of avenues to enter Thailand and supply the gap in the labour force, meanwhile make their entry illegal so they have no rights, legalise (some of) them on a yearly basis, prevent freedom of movement, pay them pittance but slightly more than their home nations can.

Thailand is simply fortunate that it has a military government preventing development in Myanmar.

 

 

 

 

 

[Burma Bill]

I didn't know leopards and tigers could catch Covid-19!!

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, Oxx said:

Didn't the Nazis do something similar Poland? Called "ghettos", I think.  That is widely considered a human rights abuse.  So is this.

 

 

 

 

No.

[Metapod]

so much for moving on from covid. you muppets will never let this die.

[jacko45k]

On 2/18/2022 at 5:07 PM, Burma Bill said:

I didn't know leopards and tigers could catch Covid-19!!

I bet a cheetah could!