Holidaymakers Urged to Check for COVID Symptoms After Returning Home

[webfact]

 

by Natthaphon Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - People returning home from the long holiday are advised to take precautions to ensure they did not contract COVID-19 during their trips.

 

Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Department of Health, urged those visiting other provinces during the holiday to monitor their conditions after returning home. He also advised people to take rapid-antigen tests if they develop symptoms such as a cough, sore throat, muscle pain, headache and fever. Anyone who has spent more than four hours in crowded areas or on public transportation should also take an antigen test.

 

According to the director-general, free antigen test kits (ATKs) will be distributed via the Paotang app for pickup at local pharmacies, or people can use their ID cards to receive the free kits.

 

Those who test positive but exhibit mild symptoms are advised to get medicine as outpatients from hospitals where they are registered for free treatment.

 

Additionally, they should self-isolate for five days and closely monitor themselves for another five days. They are still allowed to leave the house during the self-monitoring period but must follow strict prevention protocols such as wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

 

The director-general also urged employers to take precautions such as providing hand sanitizers at entrances, in front of lifts and inside restrooms. Employees should meanwhile evaluate themselves using the "Thai Save Thai" app and notify their employers if they are in a high-risk group, as well as adhere to Universal Prevention measures.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2022-07-18

 

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[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

People returning home from the long holiday are advised to take precautions to ensure they did not contract COVID-19 during their trips.

Take precautions after returning home... Hmmmm

[whiteman]

They will just run off to their local hospital for a test and spread it about in the Hospital.

 

[2long]

I'm sorry but how does one take precautions for past events?

"are advised to take precautions to ensure they did not contract COVID-19 during their trips."

 

And 'checking for symptoms' is also a bit weird, because you either have symptoms or you don't, and if you have them, you know about it.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Covid fatigue.......????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

On 7/18/2022 at 2:25 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

Covid fatigue.......????

 You'd be a whole lot more fatigued if you ended up on a ventilator in the hospital unable to breathe with a serious case of COVID...

 

Right now in Thailand, new "official" daily cases (a bare fraction of the actual cases), total current COVID hospitalizations and current COVID hospitalizations with patients in serious condition are all at their highest levels in the past month.

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[arithai12]

 

So if we catch Covid, AND are unvaccinated AND have previous conditions AND don't seek treatment in time, we might end up with serious problems on a ventilator, and the statistics are about 20 fatalities per day. Interestingly, they never tell us vaccination and pre-conditions.

So what should we do more than get vaccinated and take precautions, like almost all of us already do? Stay home glued to the fear-mongering bulletin that tells us how bad Covid is?

FATIGUE is the right word.

 

By the same token, I expect you never venture on a public road since the fatalities there are of order 60/day, and there's no vaccine for that.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, arithai12 said:

So if we catch Covid, AND are unvaccinated AND have previous conditions AND don't seek treatment in time, we might end up with serious problems on a ventilator, and the statistics are about 20 fatalities per day. Interestingly, they never tell us vaccination and pre-conditions.

 

As of today, Thailand has 11,500+ people hospitalized with COVID, the highest number in the past month.

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=30-days

 

Of those, 854 are in serious condition (also the highest number in the past month) and 382 of those are intubated because they're unable to breathe on their own. And the serious condition number has increased by 38 percent just over the past month.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106142991004034/607743730843955/?type=3

 

The current fatalities are just a small, but significant, part of the broader overall COVID illness picture.

 

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Interestingly, they never tell us vaccination and pre-conditions.

And, contrary to your claim above, the MoPH regularly reports those details on new daily COVID fatalities (though they used to be much more detailed in that than they are now as they try to head for "endemic" status).

 

Of the latest new COVID deaths reported, most all were either age 60 or older OR had some preexisting condition. And, most all had NOT received COVID booster vaccine shots -- which has been the general trend among COVID deaths here. (see the circled portion of the MoPH chart below -- the "608" reference is MoPH's shorthand for people age 60+ OR with any of 8 designated preexisting conditions.)

 

PS -The Thai MoPH long ago eliminated from their COVID death statistics any counting of cases of people who died from other causes WITH COVID.... If they show up in the stats now, they're dying FROM COVID. And also, when MoPH talks of pre-existing conditions, that doesn't mean those people were headed toward dying anyway. It means a lot of them have various CHRONIC conditions that they otherwise would have likely lived with for many years, had COVID not taken them sooner.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106142991004034/607743684177293/?type=3

 

[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, arithai12 said:

 

So if we catch Covid, AND are unvaccinated AND have previous conditions AND don't seek treatment in time, we might end up with serious problems on a ventilator, and the statistics are about 20 fatalities per day. Interestingly, they never tell us vaccination and pre-conditions.

So what should we do more than get vaccinated and take precautions, like almost all of us already do? Stay home glued to the fear-mongering bulletin that tells us how bad Covid is?

FATIGUE is the right word.

 

By the same token, I expect you never venture on a public road since the fatalities there are of order 60/day, and there's no vaccine for that.

 

Yes we might........ although I do not grasp what you mean by  'Interestingly, they never tell us vaccination and pre-conditions.' Pre-conditions I suspect we can figure out.....  

Whether you get vaccinated is a choice fortunately.... and I suspect a less gregarious lifestyle would be safer..... precautions are a good idea.....always, but those are only really needed outside the home.... I don't feel overly bombarded with Covid News, it is all about the US Washington riots and UK Tory party leadership elections right now.

 

We don't really need to use diversion and bring up road accidents or falling into unlabeled road works or getting caught in strong beach undercurrents. 

[actonion]

Stress more the need for personal hygiene, especially   the hundreds  of  food vendors   plying the  trade in the streets ...i always wonder   where they would find a toilet,   and more importantly wash their hands after