Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Sixth Bangkok nurse tests positive for Covid-19, 17 new cases in quarantine

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Thursday, December 10, 2020 13:42

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A sixth Bangkok nurse tested positive for Covid-19. The nurse works at BNH Hospital in Bangkok were at least 4 other staff members tested positive for the virus.

Health officials suspect the first infected nurse contracted the virus while working at an alternative state quarantine facility. They say she failed to wear her protective gear properly while screening arrivals. Health officials believe she transmitted the virus to other nurses while out to eat after work.

The first patient started experiencing symptoms of a runny nose and excessive phlegm on November 29, according to director general of communicable diseases Sophon Iamsirithaworn. On December 2, she travelled on the MRT train around 10am to Thon Buri for an interview at a hospital. She took the BTS Skytrain to Silom around 2pm. Sophon says those on the trains are at low risk of infection because the nurse wore a face mask.

Meanwhile, 17 new Covid-19 cases were detected in quarantine, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration. The total number of Covid-19 is raised to 4,169 with 3,888 recoveries and 60 deaths. 221 people are currently receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.

4 people travelling from Switzerland tested positive for Covid-19. The 2 Thai women, ages 53 and 56, and the 2 Swiss men, ages 53 and 64, were on the same flight as 11 previously confirmed cases.
2 Thai nationals, ages 16 and 63, travelling from Sweden tested positive for Covid-19. They were on the same flight as 3 previously confirmed cases.
A 65 year old American man and a 28 year old Filipino woman travelling from the Philippines tested positive for Covid-19.
A 23 year old Italian woman and a 23 year old American man travelling from the United Kingdom tested positive for Covid-19.
A 22 year old Thai man and a 30 year old Thai woman travelling from Italy tested positive for Covid-19.
A 35 year old Kenyan man travelling from Kenya tested positive for Covid-19. He was on the same flight as 2 previously confirmed cases.
A 53 year old Thai national travelling from Russia tested positive for Covid-19.
A 56 year old American man travelling from the United States tested positive for Covid-19.
A 52 year old Thai man travelling from Libya tested positive for Covid-19.

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SOURCE: Bangkok Post

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9 Comments

14cycles

Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 4:40 pm

How many are critical or even have a runny nose…. no one i know cares. They’re just annoyed at those enforce covid this and covid that

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Mister Stretch

Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 5:18 pm

“They say she failed to wear her protective gear properly while screening arrivals.”

Yesterday they said it was because “taking body temperature” was dangerous.

Wear your mask…keep distant. Protect yourself.

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- 14cycles
  
  Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 7:06 pm
  
  If you are old and weak.
  
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  - Issan John
    
    Friday, December 11, 2020 at 12:37 pm
    
    “I you are old and weak” OR you have no interest in protecting others – mask wearing is not for your own protection, but to protect others from you.
    
    It’s for mutual protection, not self-protection.
    
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Issan John

Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 5:44 pm

“They say she failed to wear her protective gear properly while screening arrivals.”

Familiarity breeds contempt, and she’d probably become over-confident as she hadn’t seen anyone who was “critical” or with more than “a runny nose”.

Unlike the half-wits who think that’s all it is, she should have known better.

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Sky

Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 5:54 pm

Oh no. There is a 99.6% survival rate.

It’s been almost a year, the bodies are not piling up, so not credit masks if it is not a not it is worthless. So.e countries writing o. The box when you buy a mask says.. it will not filter the covid virus.

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- Andrew Lorimer
  
  Friday, December 11, 2020 at 6:49 am
  
  I agree. Many deaths are manipulated. One of my work colleagues relatives died of dengue fever in Sarawak. Cause of death was covid 19 until the family contested it. How come the thai DJ who had a virulent form of covid did not infect all the people he had contact with.
  
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  - Issan John
    
    Friday, December 11, 2020 at 12:41 pm
    
    “How come?”
    
    Any number of possible reasons, the most likely being that it was found in the early stages before he became contagious.
    
    Hardly rocket science.
    
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- Issan John
  
  Friday, December 11, 2020 at 12:38 pm
  
  See above.
  
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Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.

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