Coronavirus
- Việt Nam
Tin Covid-19: Bệnh nhân phi công Anh được chỉ định ghép phổi
Phổi “bệnh nhân 91” – phi công người Anh đông đặc gần như hoàn toàn, vì vậy Bộ Y tế chỉ định bệnh viện chuẩn bị thủ tục ghép phổi – cách duy nhất để cứu sống. Tiến sĩ Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh Châu, Giám đốc Bệnh viện Bệnh Nhiệt đới TP HCM, cho biết kết quả CT scan cho thấy…
- Việt Nam
Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Ngày T4 13/5): Không ghi nhận ca dương tính nCoV mới
Đến 18h ngày hôm nay 13/5, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca dương tính nCoV mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 288 người, trong số đó, 252 người đã khỏi bệnh, 36 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 13/5, Việt Nam ghi nhận: Tổng số ca nhiễm: 288 Số…
- Health
Thailand to manufacture anti-viral drug to treat Covid-19 patients
The state-owned enterprise responsible for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals in Thailand says it plans to produce a licenced version of Favipiravir, the anti-viral drug that has proved successful in treating some Covid-19 patients. Nation Thailand reports that The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation developed the drug in March, but there is a waiting period of about a year before the product can…
- Covid-19 News
Businesses opening back up, some aren’t following the rules
While restrictions are being lifted, some businesses seem a little too excited about getting back to normal and are letting their guard down when it comes to social distancing and Covid-19 prevention practices. Businesses are required to provide hand sanitising gel, wear face masks and make sure people stay a safe distance apart. Upon inspection this month, most businesses are…
- Covid-19 News
Australian government warns citizens not to let down their guard as restrictions ease
The Australian government is warning its citizens not to let their guard down as some restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus are lifted. The country has had 98 deaths from around 7,000 cases to date. Given the devastating figures coming from many other parts of the world, Australia (and neighbouring New Zealand) appear to…
- Covid-19 News
44 arrests at Pattaya pool party, drugs and firearm seized – VIDEO
44 people have been arrested at a birthday party after police raided a pool villa in central Pattaya at 1:30 this morning. It’s understood 3 of those arrested were Chinese tourists; the remainder were Thai. All face charges of breaking curfew and violating the Emergency Decree. 1 man, 41 year old Thanasak Kaewsri, had an outstanding warrant for drugs and…
- Phuket News
Fishing industry seeks 50,000 men amidst Covid-19 migrant exodus
With millions of Thais unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, one business is definitely hiring: a senior government official said Saturday that Thailand’s fishing industry is seeking to hire as many as 50,000 men to go to sea aboard trawlers. The chief of the Department of Employment’s provincial branch in the southern province of Ranong, Phithoon Damsakhon, was quoting a…
- Việt Nam
Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Ngày T3 12/5): Không ghi nhận ca dương tính nCoV mới, thêm 3 bệnh nhân khỏi bệnh
Đến 18h ngày hôm nay 12/5, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca dương tính nCoV mới. Thêm 3 ca nhiễm được công bố khỏi bệnh. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 288 người, trong số đó, 252 người đã khỏi bệnh, 36 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 12/5, Việt…
- Economy News
Instant noodle exports increase as neighbouring countries stock up
Craving noodles? Seems like many people stuck at home want the cheap and quick meal. Preparation is quick, the price is low, there’s flavours aplenty and they’re easy to find. Thailand’s exports of instant noodles have gone up this year, the country’s Ministry of Commerce reported yesterday. With ridiculously low prices, a long shelf life and, let’s admit, some pretty…
- Pattaya News
6 arrests after attack on Pattaya shop owner and family for refusing to sell alcohol – VIDEO
Six curfew-breakers have been arrested for allegedly attacking a Pattaya shop owner and his family, as well as damage to their business and car, on Saturday night. The shop owner had refused to sell the perpetrators alcohol as it was after the curfew, with a further ban on alcohol sales after 6pm in Chon Buri province. The Pattaya News reports…
- Covid-19 News
Phuket bus driver shares government quarantine facility with coffin
A bus driver who left Phuket to return to his home city of Trang was left feeling a little, well, uneasy when he realised he would be sharing his government quarantine facilities with a coffin. Were the authorities just ‘planning ahead’? Or just a ‘whoops’ moment? The man had left Phuket as part of the exodus of some 50,000 people…
- Covid-19 News
Bangkok’s largest international hospital hurts from halt in medical tourism
The coronavirus outbreak has hospitals across the world at their limits, but at one Thailand’s largest and most famous hospitals, the number of patients has been cut in half. Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok heavily relies on medical tourism. Since the pandemic has ground much of international travel to a halt, Bumrungrad is getting hit hard. 50% of the patients at…
- Covid-19 News
Survey shows a third of people believe Thailand will be Covid-free in 3-6 months
A survey conducted by the Super Poll Research Office shows that a third of people believe Thailand will be free from the Covid-19 virus within 3 to 6 months. Thai Residents reports that Super Poll conducted a survey of 1,255 citizens on May 6, which also revealed that over 32% believe the virus will be gone in as little as…
- South Thailand News
Human Rights Watch says Thailand should free detained migrants
A significant number of migrants in Thailand’s Songkhla immigration detention centre have the coronavirus and the Human Rights Watch is saying all them should be free due to the dangers of the coronavirus pot the other detainees. In an article urging the release of the migrants, the HRW said the virus infections “spread like wildfire in squalid lockup” and that…
- Covid-19 News
Food sharing pantries across Thailand help the hungry
The coronavirus outbreak hit some families hard and some are without income and in need of basic food. Community pantries, stocked with basic, yet essential, food items have been popping up all over Thailand to help the hungry and people simply knocked sideways by the suddenness of the impact from the outbreak. The project is called “Pantry of Sharing.” One sign says…
- Covid-19 News
Thailand to introduce contact-tracing app in bid to constrain virus
More news is expected today about a new contact-tracing app being launched as part of the Thai government’s latest efforts to constrain the spread of the Covid-19 virus. A report in Nation Thailand says authorities will shift their focus from location targeting to increased testing of six groups considered high-risk. They include healthcare workers, those in state quarantine and newly…
- Việt Nam
Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Ngày CN 10/5): Không ghi nhận ca dương tính nCoV mới
Đến 18h ngày hôm nay 10/5, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca dương tính nCoV mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 288 người, trong số đó, 241 người đã khỏi bệnh, 47 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 10/5, Việt Nam ghi nhận (so với 24h trước): Tổng số…
- Covid-19 News
Ministries, business leaders meet to discuss further reopenings
A meeting this weekend, chaired by the director-general of the Department of Disease Control and secretary to the Covid-19 Center for Situation Administration, discussed suggestions and assessments of businesses ready to reopen, which will be forwarded to the PM Prayut Chan-o-cha for consideration early in the week. Representatives of the Interior Ministry and Tourism Ministry along with those of multiple…
- Covid-19 News
Covid-19 update: 5 new cases, no deaths (Sunday)
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported 5 new national cases of Covid-19 today, bringing the total in Thailand to 3,009. No additional deaths were reported, leaving the accumulated toll at 56. Today’s number, while higher than yesterday’s 4, continues the encouraging trend of single-digit daily increases There were 4 more infections on the resort island of Phuket this morning,…
- World News
Coronavirus pandemic reaches 4 million people infected
Across the world some 4,100,000+ people are now infected with Covid-19. The actual number is much higher but, for lack of testing and diagnosis in some countries, we may never know the exact number. Still the statistics, as varied and unreliable as they may be, still provide some general trends and provide scientists with valuable data. There has never been…
- Covid-19 News
Foreigners arrested for swimming at closed Pattaya beaches – VIDEO
Police in Pattaya arrested 3 foreigners who were violating public orders to stay off of public beaches at around noon today, at the back of a hotel in the province’s Pratumnak area. Pattaya City police officers told reporters they issued several soft warnings to the foreigners while they were in the water, but they refused to stop swimming and simply…
- Covid-19 News
Government panel predicts 12-18 more months of pandemic-related pain
Thailand faces up to a year and a half of serious impacts from Covid-19 pandemic, according to a government advisory panel investigating the pandemic’s consequences on the Kingdom. The panel was set up on the Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha’s orders on April 30. After analysing data from the Ministry of Public Health, the advisory committee on the social and economic…
- Việt Nam
Tin Covid-19: Tính đến phương án ghép phổi cho “bệnh nhân 91” – Phi công Anh
Hội đồng Chuyên môn thuộc Bộ Y tế đang xem xét phương án ghép phổi cho ca Covid-19 nặng nhất Việt Nam là “bệnh nhân 91” – Phi công người Anh đang điều trị tại Bệnh viện Bệnh Nhiệt đới TP HCM. Trong cuộc họp với các tổ chức quốc tế về chiến lược xét nghiệm, điều trị Covid-19 trong…
- Việt Nam
Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Ngày T6 8/5): Không ghi nhận ca dương tính nCoV mới
Đến 18h ngày hôm nay 8/5, Bộ Y tế không ghi nhận thêm ca dương tính nCoV mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 288 người, trong số đó, 241 người đã khỏi bệnh, 47 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 8/5, Việt Nam ghi nhận (so với 24h trước): Tổng số…
- Covid-19 News
8 new Covid-19 case, total now 3,000, no new deaths (Friday)
The spokesman of the Covid19 Coronavirus Situation Administration, Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, announced 8 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 at this morning’s daily press briefing in Bangkok, maintaining the recent trend of single-digit daily increases. The new cases take Thailand’s total to 3,000 since the beginning of the outbreak. No new deaths were reported, leaving the tally at 55. All of…
- Covid-19 News
Thai Health Minister says China, South Korea no longer virus hotspots
Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha has provisionally approved a suggestion from Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul that China and South Korea be removed from the list of Covid-19 “hotspots”. Nation Thailand reports that the number of confirmed cases in each country has now dropped into single digits and attempts are being made to re-establish economic and social ties between Thailand and the two…
- Travel
Thousands of cruise ship crew stranded at sea
Tens of thousands of cruise ship crew members remain stranded at sea, virtual prisoners on their ships with no clear end in sight as the Covid-19 coronavirus drags on around the globe. The cruise industry has been shuttered and shattered by the crisis, with onboard outbreaks, denial of port access and no clear idea of when guest will return and…
- Business News
Business recovery in the Covid-19 era
As some countries begin to tentatively look to reboot their economies in a Covid-19 world, what does the future hold for business? Nation Thailand reports today on an extensive Bank of Thailand survey that examined the impact of the pandemic on four business sectors and what might happen next. Things are looking a bit brighter for the manufacturing and retail…
- Pattaya News
Pattaya’s beaches are still a ‘no go’ area this month
Don’t go to Pattaya’s beaches unless you’re willing go to jail or pay a hefty fine. Starting tomorrow, the city’s beaches will be closed until the end of May in an effort to prevent socialising and to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Pattaya’s police posted photos on Facebook of the taped-off beaches and warning signs. “Those who try to access the…
- Việt Nam
Cập nhật tình hình COVID-19 tại Việt Nam (Ngày T5 7/5): Ghi nhận thêm 17 ca dương tính nCoV mới
Đến 18h ngày hôm nay 7/5, Bộ Y tế ghi nhận thêm 17 ca dương tính nCoV mới. Tổng số ca nhiễm COVID-19 toàn quốc là 288 người, trong số đó, 233 người đã khỏi bệnh, 55 người đang tiếp tục điều trị. Như vậy, tính đến hết ngày 7/5, Việt Nam ghi nhận (so với 24h trước): Tổng số…
