Month: March 2020
- Thailand News
Thailand News Today – Tuesday, March 17
30 new cases announced for Thailand – Tuesday Sunday, 32 cases. Monday 33 cases. Now another 30 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been confirmed. Thailand now has a confirmed total of 177 cases according to the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health at a media conference today. A boxing stadium, north east of the Bangkok city centre, has been…
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Bars, clubs and cinemas closed, but only in Bangkok and only for 14 days
Such is the speed of the news cycle at the moment, we can hardly keep up with the updates and changes in the ongoing reactions by the Thai government to the Covid-19 story. This morning the Thai PM was ‘thinking’ about closing down bars and entertainment venues, now it’s actually happened, but only in and around Bangkok. The Cabinet has…
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Malaysia closes its borders
The government of Malaysia announced yesterday it is shutting its borders to travellers, restricting domestic movement, closing schools and universities and ordering most businesses closed after the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases climbed yesterday to the highest in Southeast Asia. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin made a nationally televised speech announcing the measures, which will be in force beginning tomorrow until…
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Bệnh nhân 61 nhiễm Covid-19 tại Ninh Thuận làm chủ hôn 2 đám cưới và dự thánh lễ trong thời gian ủ bệnh
Đến 10h sáng nay, ngành y tế Ninh Thuận vận động được 5 người tiếp xúc gần với bệnh nhân 61 về Bệnh viện đa khoa tỉnh Ninh Thuận để cách ly y tế. Hôm qua, bệnh nhân 61 nhận kết quả dương tính với virus corona tên B.T.Th. (42 tuổi, ngụ xã Phước Nam, huyện Thuận Nam), là ca…
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Mandatory sim and app used to track down movement
A free sim card valued at 49 baht is being provided by The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) to every foreigner as well as Thais who had have travelled from countries that have have been designated as ‘high risk’ of Covid-19 infections. These countries include China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Italy, and Macau (as of the time of publishing).…
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Two bombs explode in front of the Yala provincial offices today
More violence in Thailand’s south today as two small bombs explode at the front of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre in Yala’s city centre this morning. Many people are reported as injured from the blasts. It’s believed that five provincial police (or soldiers) and three media were wounded in the two explosions. Thai PBS is reporting that 18 people…
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30 new cases announced for Thailand – Tuesday
Sunday, 32 cases. Monday 33 cases. Now another 30 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been confirmed. Thailand now has a confirmed total of 177 cases according to the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health, Sukhum Kanchanaphimai. As reported in ‘Thailand News Today‘ yesterday, a boxing stadium, north east of the Bangkok city centre, has been the source of new…
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Chaing Mai venue owners don’t agree with shutdown plans
On March 15, Deputy PM and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakil says he will ask the Covid-19 outbreak management committee to close all entertainment venues nationwide. Other measures include declaring additional disease areas and banning activities involving mass gatherings to prevent cluster infections involving people drinking together in pubs. The measure has been submitted to the national Covid-19 prevention committee…
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Buriram provincial government initiates Thailand’s first partial lockdown
Buriram province, in east of Bangkok, bordering with Cambodia and home of the Thai leg of the MotoGP, is the first of the country’s 76 provinces to take a pro-active stance against the Covid-19 coronavirus. The provincial government has imposed a partial lockdown to restrict the spread of the disease. The Buriram Governor Tatchakorn Hatthathayakul says, even though there has…
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Covid-19 ngày 16/3: Việt Nam ghi nhận thêm 3 bệnh nhân COVID-19 mới
Theo báo cáo của Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ trung ương ngày 16/3, Bộ Y tế thông báo thêm 3 bệnh nhân mắc bệnh COVID-19 của Việt Nam. Bệnh nhân 58 là nữ, 26 tuổi, sống tại phố Yên Thế, Phường Điện Biên, quận Ba Đình, thành phố Hà Nội. Là du học sinh Pháp, nhập cảnh tại Cảng hàng…
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Bác gái bệnh nhân 17 nhiễm Covid-19 có diễn biến nặng
2 bệnh nhân nhiễm COVID-19 tại Việt Nam đang chuyển nặng, một bệnh nhân người Anh 69 tuổi, người còn lại là bà L.T.H., 64 tuổi nhiễm từ bệnh nhân số 17. Hôm nay, Bộ Y tế cho hay, sáng nay các bác sĩ đã tiến hành hội chẩn liên viện để hỗ trợ điều trị cho hai bệnh nhân…
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33 new cases: Thailand’s biggest single day jump
Thirty-three new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Thailand today, the nation’s biggest single day increase, bringing the total number of infections to 147 since the virus struck in January. Of the total, 36 have recovered, 108 remain in hospital and one death has been reported from complications arising from the disease. Seventeen of the new cases…
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33 new cases announced for Thailand, total rises to 147
Yesterday’s announcement of 32 new cases of Covid-19 coronavirus, the most on any single day in Thailand, has been surpassed today with the announcement of 33 new cases for Monday. The total number of infections in Thailand is now 147 people. 36 patients have recovered, 108 are still in hospital and one person has died. Seventeen of the new cases…
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Northern Thailand chokes under shroud of smog
Chiang Mai may have fallen to third in the race for world’s worst air quality today, but northern Thailand is still choking under a blanket of toxic haze, and the Thai Meteorological Department has forecast “hot to very hot conditions” for the region. The department urges people in the north to “stay safe due to the very hot conditions.” Visibility…
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Covid-19 ngày 15/3: Số ca tử vong và nhiễm mới tăng chưa từng có
Pháp, Iran, Singapore, Malaysia, Tây Ban Nha và Italia có số ca tử vong, nhiễm mới virus corona trong ngày tăng cao đột biến. Pháp quay cuồng Cơ quan Y tế công cộng Pháp thông báo ghi nhận thêm 36 trường hợp tử vong vì Covid-19 hôm qua và cũng là mức tăng cao nhất từ khi dịch bùng phát…
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Thailand News Today – Monday, March 16
Hundreds linked to boxing stadium positive Covid-19 test TV celebrity and boxing camp manager Matthew Deane, who tested positive for Covid-19 on March 6, was together with many others who were at the Lumpini boxing stadium. The stadium is in Ramintra Bangkok, north east of the city centre. Then over the weekend, the mayor of the Chachoengsao provincial administration organisation…
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Sao nữ ‘James Bond’ – Olga Kurylenko dương tính với COVID-19
‘Bond girl’ Olga Kurylenko mới đăng tải lên Instagram hôm qua rằng cô đã nhiễm virus corona chủng mới gây bệnh COVID-19 cả tuần nay. “Thực sự tôi đã bị bệnh gần 1 tuần nay. Tôi bị sốt và mệt mỏi. Hãy chăm sóc bản thân một cách nghiêm túc”, nữ diễn viên kiêm người mẫu gốc Ukraine chia sẻ.…
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Thai government planning more economic stimulus packages
Economists have urged the government to expand the fiscal deficit to up to 600 billion baht, while more stimulus packages are hopefully on course to counter the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand. Secretary to the Council of Economic Ministers, Kobsak Pootrakool, says that the economic ministers would consider extra packages as relief for certain sectors, that were hit…
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Songkran officially postponed
In a shock move, an urgent meeting of the Covid-19 Administration Centre, chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, today approved a motion to postpone the Songkran holidays from April 13-15 to later, undisclosed dates. Deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Thanadirek made the announcement on her Twitter account this afternoon. Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year festival. Ratchada says the meeting…
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Pattaya venues “willing to close” if ordered
“If the government ordered us to close entertainment venues, we are willing to cooperate.” Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha said yesterday that, for the time being at least, he is not ordering a shutdown of the country’s massive nightlife industry. But one of Thailand’s main tourist hotspots is bracing for the worst: the Pattaya Entertainment Operators Association conceded yesterday they are…
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Hundreds linked to boxing stadium positive Covid-19 test
TV celebrity and boxing camp manager Matthew Deane, who tested positive for Covid-19 on March 6, was together with many others who were at the Lumpini boxing stadium in Ramintra Bangkok, north east of the city centre. The mayor of the Chachoengsao provincial administration organisation (PAO), Kitti Paopiamsap posted in his Facebook last night at 8.50pm saying that a laboratory…
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Thundershowers, more hot weather for the North
Thailand’s Meteorological Department predicted today that a thermal low covering the North will bring “hot to very hot weather” to the region. Thundershowers are forecast in the North, the Northeast, the Central and the East. Meanwhile, a high pressure system from China is covering the Northeast, the East, the Central and the South China Sea. Southerly and southeasterly winds are…
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Home alone. Phuket hotels hit a speed bump.
by Bill Barnett of c9hotelworks.com In the latest news, Singapore’s move to impose a stay-home policy or self-isolation for travellers within ASEAN, has hit the industry hard. Here in Phuket, hotels are winding down their traditional snowbird European business which for the most part was booked well in advance. Rates have somewhat held during this time. One key barometer of…
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Top virologist urges cancellations, “proactive approach”
Thailand’s government should cancel all mass activities, social activities and events that draw crowds, and provide easy public access to Covid-19 coronavirus testing, according to the chief of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University. Well known virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan made the proposal on his Facebook page today. Yong says Thailand has been “rehearsing for how…
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60 quarantined as Army Welfare chief tests positive
The director-general of the Army Welfare Department has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus and is being treated in hospital. Sixty people who had close contact with him have been quarantined in their homes, including some of the army’s top brass. An army spokeman made the announcement today. “Sixty people risked infection and home quarantine was ordered for them. They…
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“Where is everyone?” – Suvarnabhumi airport deserted on Saturday night
Suvarnabhumi International Airport is largely deserted as virus fears grips travellers. It was eerily quiet at Suvarnabhumi at 9pm on Saturday night, as both the arrival and departure halls were practically empty. The managing director of Airports of Thailand Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, admitted that he had not expected to see such an atmosphere at the airport on Saturday March 14. To…
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Stormy skies for Boeing as Coronavirus compounds dire situation
As the world’s Covid-19 cases continue to rise, aircraft manufacture Boeing is watching its stocks slide. From around US$384 a share back in September last year to as low as US$154.84 last week. It’s since bounced back to US$170.20, but a long, long way from its peak. Most of the losses kicked in from mid-February when the extent of the…
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Be informed, be aware. Prevention and precautions in a Covid-19 world.
As of this morning the number of cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus has reached 169,552. The number of deaths related to the virus is now 6,516, representing a death rate of around 3.8%, up from 3.4% two weeks ago, and up from the earlier days when it hovered around 2%. But the number of people that have fully recovered has…
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“We’re not going to run out” – Thai Retailer Association
Retailers are insisting that supplies of new stock have been unaffected as local residents, afraid of a Cornonavirus-prompted lockdown, rush to retailers to restock on essential goods – drinking water, rice, canned food, semi-instant noodles, sugar and toilet paper have been found to be in short supply in various department stores, supermarkets and retail stores, as people start hoarding supplies.…
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Thammasat University cancels classes for a week, Thai universities urged to ‘go online’
Thammasat University has cancelled all classes for at least one week, saying in a statement that they plan to resume classes again next week (below). The statement from the university mentioned the Covid-19 world pandemic and said it would co-operate to protect its students. “All classes at Tha Prachan and Rangsit will be cancelled during March 16 –22, 2020. Classes…
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New Covid-19 specialist hospital to open as Thai government steps up response
The Thai government plans to use a freshly constructed hospital as a Covid-19-only patient hospital. Yesterday the number of infections in Thailand rose by 32 cases for a total of 114, the largest single rise in new daily cases. The Thai PM was speaking about the possibilities of moving to Stage 3 after chairing a meeting yesterday on new measures…
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TP. HCM: Cách ly 4 người và tìm kiếm hàng trăm người trên chuyến bay với du khách Latvia nhiễm nCoV
4 người lưu trú trong hẻm khu phố Tây, quận 1, bị cách ly vì tiếp xúc gần với du khách Latvia nhiễm nCoV; vẫn tìm kiếm hàng trăm người khác. Ông Huỳnh Mẫn, Phó chủ tịch UBND phường Phạm Ngũ Lão (quận 1) cho biết, sáng nay nhận được thông tin du khách Latvia lưu trú tại khách sạn…
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Bệnh nhân nhiễm Covid-19 chuyển biến xấu, Bộ Y tế yêu cầu chi viện khẩn cấp
Ca mắc Covid-19 đang điều trị tại Bênh viện Bệnh nhiệt đới Trung ương có chuyển biến xấu dần, Bộ Y tế hoả tốc yêu cầu đội cơ động phản ứng nhanh chống dịch chi viện, tập trung cứu chữa ca nặng. Hôm nay, Cục Quản lý khám chữa bệnh gửi công văn hoả tốc số 308 tới Bệnh viện…
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Summer storms batter Korat, Buri Ram
Sudden summer storms caused extensive damage in two provinces in Thailand’s northeast yesterday: many villages in tambon Nong Ma Nao in Khong district of Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as Korat, were struck by a summer storm late last night. Numerous houses were severely damaged by the storm, which started at about 11pm. Some structures were entirely demolished. The roofing sheets…
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Sự thật chuyện Cristiano Ronaldo hiến khách sạn thành bệnh viện dã chiến chống Covid-19
Tờ Marca đưa tin ngôi sao bóng đá Cristiano Ronaldo chuyển tạm thời khách sạn của mình thành bệnh viện để chống dịch Covid-19. Trên tờ báo Tây Ban Nha đăng tải thông tin các khách sạn mang thương hiệu CR7 ở Bồ Đào Nha sẽ chuyển thành bệnh viện giúp ngăn chặn dịch virus corona chủng mới (SARS-CoV-2). Theo…
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PM: Nightlife stays open for business
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-cha announced he has rejected, for the time being, the suggestion from Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to temporarily close the country’s massive nightlife industry. Anutin Charnvirakul said yesterday the suggestion was one of several measures he and the Ministry of Public Health would bring up with the PM tomorrow. But as social media exploded, fiercely…
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Italia có số ca nhiễm Covid-19 tăng vọt gần 3.500 ca trong ngày
Cuối ngày 14/3, Italia có hơn 1.400 ca tử vong và hơn 21.000 ca nhiễm Covid-19 mới. Giới chức siết chặt biện pháp kiểm soát dịch bệnh do virus corona chủng mới gây ra. Reuters dẫn từ Cơ quan phòng vệ dân sự Italia ngày 14/3 cho biết, chỉ trong 24 giờ qua, số ca tử vong mới vì Covid-19…
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