Thailand to issue COVID-19 reclassification measures this Friday

[webfact]

 

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration CCSA) is expected to announce a series of measures this Friday, in line with the reclassification of COVID-19 as an “infectious disease under watch”, as Thailand officially moves into a post-pandemic era from October 1st.

 

The Thai Ministry of Public Health issued two announcements on Monday to reclassify COVID-19 from a “dangerous infectious disease” to an “infectious disease under watch”, effective from October 1st, as the COVID-19 situation in the country is steadily improving, said Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Traisoranakul today (Wednesday).

 

She said that the CCSA’s measures will cover the legal, health, communication and management aspects after more than three years of living with COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-to-issue-covid-19-reclassification-measures-this-friday/

 

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[huangnon]

Great stuff. Maybe we can now dispense with the silly 3 day ATK-testing at schools and places of work, also?

[mnomad]

No doubt they'll announce this masked and behind a plastic glass podium

[onthedarkside]

Two trolling posts have been removed.

 

[brewsterbudgen]

4 hours ago, huangnon said:

Great stuff. Maybe we can now dispense with the silly 3 day ATK-testing at schools and places of work, also?

Absolutely - and stop forcing kids to wear masks all day in school!

[OJAS]

5 hours ago, huangnon said:

Great stuff. Maybe we can now dispense with the silly 3 day ATK-testing at schools and places of work, also?

And also with the social distancing nonsense at banks and immigration offices in particular where you are forced to stand on your feet for ages waiting for your ticket number to be called because half the available seats have been marked as not for use and the remaining half already have bums placed on them.

Edited September 21, 2022 by OJAS

[richard_smith237]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

after more than three years of living with COVID-19.

It Covid started in Thailand in Sept 2019 ??? ????

[RichardColeman]

12 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Absolutely - and stop forcing kids to wear masks all day in school!

Now if they would just wear crash helmets the world would be perfect

[zzaa09]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

It Covid started in Thailand in Sept 2019 ??? ????

Decent journalism should always be accompanied with challenging proof reading. 

[JCCR6]

Why is everyone still wearing masks in this country? Do people like wearing them or what?

[wolf81]

15 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Absolutely - and stop forcing kids to wear masks all day in school!

Be careful what masks you and your loved ones use. It seems (at least in EU and I doubt in Thailand it's much better) that many masks actually contain too much titanium dioxide particles (up to 5x the safe limit) which is known to be carcinogenic. You don't want your child to breath this stuff in and out each day at school. 

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06605-w

 

If I understand the paper correctly, cotton masks seem to be generally safer than masks made with polyester.

 

Quote

TiO₂ particles were not observed in cotton fibers (Fig. 1d), in meltblown non-woven fabrics (Fig. 1f), and in some of the thermobonded non-woven fabrics (Table 1).

 

Edited September 22, 2022 by wolf81

[SymS]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, as I never had to do a single PCR or ATK test so far.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration CCSA) is expected to announce a series of measures this Friday, in line with the reclassification of COVID-19 as an “infectious disease under watch”, as Thailand officially moves into a post-pandemic era from October 1st

And the emergency decree under Prawits watch.. [pun intended]

[phukettrader]

27 minutes ago, JCCR6 said:

Why is everyone still wearing masks in this country? Do people like wearing them or what?

Brainwashing and peer pressure. Don't want to be the first one to go maskless in case someone blames them.

[nickmondo]

does not matter what they say.

the Thais will still wear [masks].

Remember before the pandemic?

a lot of them wore masks then anyway

Edited October 6, 2022 by onthedarkside
trolling term removed

[bananafish]

The ones wearing masks while exercising in the gym are the best. 

[redwood1]

Thais LOVE LOVE LOVE the masks.....Covid was God sent for the borderline mask wearers......Many will now be wearing the stupid masks for years maybe decades maybe until they die....... 

[cnx101]

30 minutes ago, bananafish said:

The ones wearing masks while exercising in the gym are the best. 

There was a guy in my gym works out hard every day never takes off his mask wipes down everything he is going to use even the bar keeps away from everyone, then he got Covid, he was shocked and couldn’t understand it.

[mnomad]

2 minutes ago, cnx101 said:

There was a guy in my gym works out hard every day never takes off his mask wipes down everything he is going to use even the bar keeps away from everyone, then he got Covid, he was shocked and couldn’t understand it.

Ive seen them wipe down whole chairs and tables when going into a popular bar, bizarre, they must bulk buy liters of that nostril irrating bloody alcohol sanitizer

[VBF]

5 hours ago, JCCR6 said:

Why is everyone still wearing masks in this country? Do people like wearing them or what?

Are they? Serious question, because i was chatting to a friend in Pattaya last week who told me nobody's bothering  any more. (I haven't been to Thailand since March 2020)

So are we talking BKK, or the provinces or where? AFAIK, there is no legal requirement to wear a mask any more...correct?

Edited September 22, 2022 by VBF

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

5 hours ago, wolf81 said:

Be careful what masks you and your loved ones use. It seems (at least in EU and I doubt in Thailand it's much better) that many masks actually contain too much titanium dioxide particles (up to 5x the safe limit) which is known to be carcinogenic. You don't want your child to breath this stuff in and out each day at school. 

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06605-w

 

If I understand the paper correctly, cotton masks seem to be generally safer than masks made with polyester.

 

Interesting report... Several things about its findings...

 

1. They made findings as to the amounts of titanium dioxide in SOME types of masks, moreso in the reuseable cloth/woven varieties than the single use disposable styles.

 

2. They made no findings as to whether or how much ofthat compound is released and inhaled from those particular masks when worn.

 

From the report:

 

"Face mask have an important role in the measures against the COVID-19 pandemic¹. So far, no data are available that indicate that the possible risk associated with the presence of TiO₂ particles in face masks outweighs the benefits of wearing face masks as protection measure.

 

That is why we do not call for people to stop wearing face masks. However, the warning of Palmeiri et al.⁵ for the possible future consequences caused by a poorly regulated use of nanotechnology in textiles should be extended to face masks where TiO₂ particles are applied conventionally, as a white colorant or as a matting agent, or to assure durability reducing polymer breakdown by ultraviolet light^3,4."

 

AND

 

"No assumptions were made about the likelihood of the release of TiO₂ particles itself, since direct measurement of release and inhalation uptake when face masks are worn could not be assessed."

 

Also, their study seems to have involved 12 randomly selected types of masks obtained in the EU.... none of which were certified by the U.S. NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) -- which typically certifies the top-line N95 type facemasks.

 

[paulikens]

9 hours ago, bananafish said:

The ones wearing masks while exercising in the gym are the best. 

@bananafish Also up there as the best is...all on their motorbikes with no helmets on but masks worn.  oh the irony 

[onthedarkside]

A misinformation post regarding face mask wear has been removed.

 

[rattlesnake]

2 hours ago, paulikens said:

@bananafish Also up there as the best is...all on their motorbikes with no helmets on but masks worn.  oh the irony 

To me the ultimate one is "alone in a car with a mask on". I see a few per day although with most cars you can't see anything because of tinted windows (but I bet there are loads who do it).

[rattlesnake]

6 hours ago, cnx101 said:

There was a guy in my gym works out hard every day never takes off his mask wipes down everything he is going to use even the bar keeps away from everyone, then he got Covid, he was shocked and couldn’t understand it.

The other day I saw a woman having coffee in a shopping mall, she had a P95 mask and disposable latex gloves on. I felt genuinely sorry for her.

[NE1]

Never worn a mask in my vehicle .

Just thought it was stupid.

[BangkokReady]

19 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

It Covid started in Thailand in Sept 2019 ??? ????

And we really only started "living with it" in February/March 2020.  So more like two and a half years.

[BangkokReady]

1 hour ago, rattlesnake said:

disposable latex gloves

The gloves are what get me (that and facemasks outside far away from anyone).  You obviously take them off at some point, which is likely when you reach some sort of destination.  You may as well just wash your hands thoroughly when you arrive.

 

I wonder if it's some sort of status thing.  The more scared you are of covid, the more important you are.

[rattlesnake]

10 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

The gloves are what get me (that and facemasks outside far away from anyone).  You obviously take them off at some point, which is likely when you reach some sort of destination.  You may as well just wash your hands thoroughly when you arrive.

 

I wonder if it's some sort of status thing.  The more scared you are of covid, the more important you are.

Possibly. I recall this guy in a supermarket wearing a mask, swimming goggles and a face shield and he was parading around proudly as if he was waiting to become viral on tik tok. In any case this has gone too far and it has to end.

[BayArea]

9 hours ago, VBF said:

Are they? Serious question, because i was chatting to a friend in Pattaya last week who told me nobody's bothering  any more. (I haven't been to Thailand since March 2020)

So are we talking BKK, or the provinces or where? AFAIK, there is no legal requirement to wear a mask any more...correct?

All you have to do is watch youtube videos on Thailand.  In Bangkok,  the majority are wearing masks. Only westerners,  Indians and non Thais are not wearing it. In Pattaya,  it's mostly the bar girls who are maskless along with the ex pats, tourists and non Thai. Posters on this board have said, even in the countryside the vast majority are wearing masks.