All temporary COVID-19 hospitals to be closed at the end of September

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Thailand’s Health Service Support Department will not extend the licenses of temporary hospitals after October 1st, when COVID-19 is to be reclassified from a “dangerous infectious disease” to an “infectious disease under watch”, unless there are still patients being treated there, said Dr. Tares Krassanairawiwong, the department’s director-general, today (Friday).

 

Many temporary hospitals, such as community isolation facilities and “hospitels”, were opened during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to ease the workload and bed shortagesin ordinary hospitals.

 

Dr. Tares said that the department plans to close them down, but several have asked for extensions of their service as infections started to increase due to the spread of the Omicron variant.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/all-temporary-covid-19-hospitals-to-be-closed-at-the-end-of-september/

 

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