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Ministry says no entry for banned cruise ship passengers, even by air
The Thai Public Health Ministry announced yesterday that no flights carrying passengers from the barred cruise ship MS Westerdam, whether chartered flights or otherwise, will be allowed to land in Thailand before the end of February. Department of Disease Control deputy chief Dr Thanarak Palitpat says the decision is the result of a discussion among authorities including the DDC, the…
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137 Thai evacuees head home after 14 day quarantine
137 Thai evacuees, repatriated from the Chinese city of Wuhan on February 4, were given a warm farewell as they started on their journeys back home from the Royal Thai Navy’s Sattahip base, south of Pattaya this morning. The Thai Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutaecha, Chon Buri governor Pakkarathorn Thienchai, naval officers and medical personnel sent the group on…
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Passengers leave Yokohama virus ship, China toll tops 2000
Passengers onboard the Diamond Princess, the coronavirus-wracked cruise ship which has been quarantined in Yokohama’s harbour for two weeks, began disembarking today after testing negative for the disease that has now claimed more than 2,000 lives in China. The ship proved a fertile breeding ground for the COVID-19 coronavirus, with at least 542 positive cases, the largest cluster of confirmed…
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Westerdam passengers in Thailand found virus-free
Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob has announced that all 27 passengers from the cruise ship MS Westerdam who arrived in Thailand have tested negative for the COVID-19 coronavirus. The passengers, who disembarked in Cambodia on Valentine’s Day and came to Thailand, “…have tested negative and been allowed to continue to their destinations.” Two Thai passengers onboard the luxury cruise also showed…
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Giám đốc bệnh viện ở Vũ Hán tử vong vì virus corona
Truyền thông nhà nước Trung Quốc đưa tin giám đốc của một bệnh viện tại Vũ Hán vừa qua đời do nhiễm virus corona. Bác sĩ Lưu Trí Minh (51 tuổi), giám đốc Bệnh viện Vũ Xương ở Vũ Hán, Hồ Bắc, đã qua đời lúc 10h30 ngày 18/2 vì nhiễm virus, theo Đài truyền hình trung ương Trung Quốc…
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Public Health Ministry urges Thais to delay visits to Japan, Singapore
The Public Health Ministry is urging Thais to postpone any planned visits to Singapore and Japan, citing the rising number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the two countries. Thailand’s total confirmed cases of the virus has risen to 35. The permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry Dr Sukhum Kanchanapima says that the virus outbreak in the two countries has…
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World travel suffers as coronavirus outbreak drags on
The Public Health Ministry is asking Thais planning trips to Japan and Singapore to reschedule their visits, saying that travellers need to be aware of the rising number of people infected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) in those two countries. Dr Sukhum Kanchanapima, the permanent secretary at the Thai Public Health Ministry, says the coronavirus outbreak had reached the third stage…
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Four people arrested after posting fake news about coronavirus
Thai police have co-ordinated raids in four province and arrested four separate people over allegations of spreading fake news about the coronavirus outbreak. Officials from the Thai Ministry of Digital for Economy and Society, Technology Crime Suppression Division along with local authorities, raided houses in Bo Win district of Chon Buri, Ban Po district of Chachoengsao province and Muang districts…
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Hồ Bắc ra lệnh tất cả cư dân không được ra khỏi nhà
Để khống chế dịch virus corona, chính quyền tỉnh Hồ Bắc đã lệnh cho cư dân ở nhà, kể cả 24 triệu người tại những khu vực xa xôi. Theo đó, toàn bộ cư dân được yêu cầu ở trong nhà cho tới khi có thông báo tiếp theo. Đồng thời, toàn bộ thành phố trong tỉnh sẽ phong tỏa những…
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US evacuates citizens from Japan virus ship as China death passes 1700
Some US citizens from the cruise ship Diamond Princess, currently quarantined off the coast of Japan, have been evacuated and flown home, where they face a further 14 day quarantine. Other nations are preparing to follow suit as global concern grows over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and the death toll at its epicentre in China topped 1,700. More…
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New coronavirus case brings Thailand total to 35
Thailand has a new case of the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the total in the country to 35 since January, the Ministry of Public Health’s permanent secretary announced at a press conference today. The new case is a 60 year old Chinese woman whose relatives earlier contracted the virus. Of Thailand’s 35 confirmed cases since January, 15 have recovered and return…
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Thai Airways starts to trim back schedules due to loss of demand
Thai Airways is cutting back services to South Korea and Singapore out of Bangkok due to “a dramatic fall in demand” and cancellations caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The vice president of sales at Thai Airways, Nond Kalinta, says the national carrier had adjusted flight schedules to match commercial demand. He confirmed the following changes. • Flights reduce on the…
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Ca tử vong đầu tiên tại Đài Loan vì virus corona
Chính quyền Đài Loan xác nhận ca tử vong đầu tiên vì virus corona là người chưa từng tới Trung Quốc và có bệnh nền tiểu đường, viêm gan B. Theo Reuters, hôm nay tại cuộc họp báo, người đứng đầu cơ quan y tế Đài Loan – ông Chen Shih Chung xác nhận ca tử vong đầu tiên do…
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Thailand welcomes cruise ship shunned in Vietnam over virus fears
German cruise ship AIDAvita has been welcomed in Thailand, days after it was blocked from docking in Vietnam due to fears of the COVID-19 coronavirus spreading across the region. Authorities in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, home to UNESCO world heritage site Ha Long Bay, barred passengers on the AIDAvita from disembarking on Thursday, according to the Vietnam News Agency. Germany’s…
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UPDATE: China coronavirus deaths reach 1665, Taiwan reports first fatality
UPDATE: Taiwan has confirmed its first death from the coronavirus. Malaysia says it won’t allow any more passengers from the Westerdam cruise ship to enter the country from Cambodia, after an American woman who flew into Kuala Lumpur was diagnosed with the coronavirus. China said today the number of coronavirus cases nationwide had reached 68,500, with the death toll rising…
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New coronavirus case confirmed in Thailand, brings total to 34
A new case of the coronavirus (covid-19) has now been confirmed in Thailand which brings the total in the country to 34 since the start of this year. The public health ministry made the announcement yesterday. The new case is a 35 year old Thai female, a medical personnel, who was infected after contact with a patient, Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchia, according…
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Trung Quốc phát hành khẩn cấp tiền mới vì virus corona
Trung Quốc tiến hành khử trùng và cách ly tiền mặt qua sử dụng, đồng thời phát hành tiền mới để giảm nguy cơ lây lan virus Covid-19. Hãng tin AFP đưa tin, hôm nay 15/2, tại cuộc họp báo của Ngân hàng trung ương Trung Quốc, các ngân hàng đang sử dụng tia cực tím và nhiệt độ cao…
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Thai healthcare worker tests positive for COVID-19 coronavirus
In a first, a Thai healthcare worker was diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus yesterday. The new case brings the country’s total confirmed cases to 34 since the outbreak. Fourteen patients have recovered and returned home. Thailand has so far not recorded a fatality from the virus. The director-general of the Department of Disease Control told a news conference today that…
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Asian tourists cancelling flights, staying home
Scores of flights to Asian destinations are being cancelled after South Korea advised its citizens to delay trips to countries where the COVID-19 coronavirus has been found. Especially hard-hit are Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. South Korea remains largely free of the virus, though one of its citizens tested positive for the virus after returning from…
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Thailand Post boosts anti-coronavirus measures
Thailand’s postal service announced this week that it’s employing health and safety measures to protect customers and staff from the COVID-19 coronavirus. According to Thai Post CEO and acting managing director Kalong Subsa-ard: “We will be using disinfectant spray at stations that receive inbound parcels from overseas. This applies to all parcels from all countries, not only China, as a…
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TP. HCM, Hà Nội và 5 tỉnh tiếp tục cho học sinh nghỉ học
Đến chiều nay, UBND thành phố Hà Nội, TP. HCM, Vĩnh Phúc, Thanh Hóa, Tuyên Quang, Đồng Nai cho học sinh nghỉ thêm để phòng dịch bệnh. Mới đây, đại diện UBND huyện Sóc Sơn cho biết dựa trên khảo sát tại trang fanpage thì 80% phụ huynh có nguyện vọng cho con nghỉ học, đặc biệt là mầm non…
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Hơn 1.700 nhân viên y tế Trung Quốc nhiễm virus corona
Lần đầu tiên Trung Quốc xác nhận số nhân viên y tế nhiễm virus corona chủng mới (COVID-19) với số người mắc là hơn 1.700 ca. Ning Zhu là một trong những nữ y tá tại thành phố Vũ Hán. Khi nhận kết quả chụp cắt lớp cho thấy cô có thể bị nhiềm virus thì cô đã phải tự cách…
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Coronavirus UPDATE: Vietnam village quarantined, worldwide cases reach 64,448
Latest coronavirus stats Infected patients worldwide reaches 64,448 whilst the death toll from the coronavirus has plateaued in the past 24 hours to 1,383. According to the Chinese National Health Commission, the current number of infections of coronavirus (aka. covid-2019) in mainland China is 63,8591, up some 5,000 from the day before. 7,101 patients have now full recovered. There are at…
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MS Westerdam passengers, all cleared, alight in Cambodia
Passengers of the MS Westerdam, the cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries including Thailand, over fears that someone aboard might have the COVID-19 coronavirus, finally disembarked today. The ship, carrying 1,455 passengers and 802 crew, docked in the Cambodian port town of Sihanoukville yesterday. It anchored offshore in the morning to…
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Cận cảnh hình ảnh “tâm dịch” bị cách ly tại huyện Bình Xuyên, Vĩnh Phúc
Từ ngày hôm nay, nơi được coi là “tâm dịch” Covid-19 (nCoV) – xã Sơn Lôi, huyện Bình Xuyên, tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc sẽ được khoanh vùng, cách ly hoàn toàn để phòng lây lan dịch bệnh. Hôm nay (13/2) là ngày đầu tiên xã Sơn Lôi (huyện Bình Xuyên, Vĩnh Phúc) áp dụng lệnh khoanh vùng cách ly hoàn toàn. Từ…
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Phát hiện xưởng làm khẩu trang từ giấy vệ sinh
Mới đây, quản lý thị trường đã phát hiện cơ sở sản xuất khẩu trang từ giấy vệ sinh để thay cho lớp kháng khuẩn. Chiều nay, tổ công tác Đội quản lý thị trường số 1, Cục Quản lý thị trường Hà Nội phát hiện một xưởng sản xuất khẩu trang giả tại xã Vạn Điểm, huyện Thường Tín…
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Coronavirus could cause huge damage to ASEAN economies
The Covid-19 coronavirus is expected to cause damage valued at US$2.4-3.4 billion (74.6-105.7 billion baht) to ASEAN economies, according to estimates from the Kasikorn Research Centre. The jolt will likely result from a virus-related economic slowdown in China, which has close trade ties with ASEAN nations as well as investment and tourism, the centre reports. If the outbreak can be…
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Coronavirus myths busted
The newly named Covid-19 coronavirus has killed over 1,300 people to date and infected more than 60,000 across 24 countries and territories. It’s perhaps unsurprising that myths and urban legends have sprung up surrounding the virus, both in how it’s spread and how to prevent it. The Thaiger is here to bust some of those myths, courtesy of information provided…
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UK prisoner tested for coronavirus after extradition is virus-free
UPDATE: Neither Mark Rumble nor another suspect deported to the UK have the Covid-19 coronavirus, The Daily Mail reports: “Two British prisoners including a ‘drug dealer’ who were sent home from Thailand do not have coronavirus, tests have confirmed.” A British drug suspect, arrested in Pattaya on November 2 before being extradited to the United Kingdom in January, has been…
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Coronavirus UPDATE – sharp increase in cases, UK officials battle to contain a new threat
There’s been a sharp spike in new cases of coronavirus, principally in the central Chinese province of Hubei. There are now 60,373 world cases, 59,805 in China. 1,369 people have died and over 6,000 recovered. 242 new deaths were recorded yesterday, the deadliest day since the start of the outbreak. So what’s behind the big rise? It’s not actually a spike…
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