covid-19
- Covid-19 News
Government aims to limit travel around Thailand by 90%
It won’t do much for oil prices, but it will flatten Thailand’s Covid-19 ‘curve’ and help with the country’s air pollution problems. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration is aiming to cut public transport use by as much as 90% around the country in order to stem the rise of Covid-19 coronavirus infections. Just yesterday, Thailand’s Department of Land Transport announced that…
- Việt Nam
Tình hình Covid-19: Nữ du khách bỏ trốn khi bị đưa vào khu cách ly tại Đà Nẵng
Nữ du khách người Mỹ Danielle Smith (29 tuổi) có biểu hiện nghi nhiễm Covid-19 đã bỏ trốn khi lực lượng chức năng đưa vào khu cách ly y tế. Khoảng 9h ngày 30/3, bệnh viện 199 (Bộ Công an) tiếp nhận trường hợp nghi nhiễm nCoV – Danielle Smith từ Trung tâm Y tế quận Sơn Trà có biểu…
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27 Bangkok police officers confirmed with Covid-19
Not only do medical staff take much of the risks, but police offers are also staffing the front lines in battling the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Bangkok Police Chief Lieutenant General Pakkapong says… “As many as 27 Police offer in Bangkok have now been confirmed as positive with the Covid-19 and 326 others are in quarantine awaiting their results.” The infected officers…
- Việt Nam
Tình hình Covid-19: Trung Quốc gây tranh cãi về người nhiễm virus corona không triệu chứng
Trung Quốc xuất hiện nhiều ca nhiễm Covid-19 không triệu chứng, song các chuyên gia đang bất đồng về nguy cơ từ những người này. Ngày 29/3, giới chức y tế Trung Quốc cho hay, một bác sĩ người Hà Nam từng công tác ở tâm dịch Vũ Hán hồi tháng 1 đã dương tính với Covid-19 sau khi trở…
- Việt Nam
Chủ Facebook Nguyễn Sin bị mời làm việc vì đăng sai sự thật về dịch bệnh Covid-19
Sở TT-TT TP.HCM cho biết, chủ tài khoản Facebook Nguyễn Sin đã được mời đến trụ sở cơ quan làm việc vào hôm nay để làm rõ thông tin bịa đặt về ‘ca đầu tiên tử vong’ đăng trên Facebook này. Ông Nguyễn Đức Thọ, Chánh thanh tra Sở TT-TT TP.HCM, cho biết, sau khi làm việc, lập biên bản…
- Việt Nam
Công chúa Tây Ban Nha qua đời do nhiễm COVID-19
Công chúa Maria Teresa, 86 tuổi, thuộc hoàng tộc Bourbon-Parma ở Tây Ban Nha là thành viên hoàng gia đầu tiên trên thế giới qua đời vì đại dịch toàn cầu COVID-19. Thông tin này được xác nhận bởi Hoàng tử Sixto Enrique de Bourbon, em trai của Công chúa Maria Teresa, trong một bài đăng công khai trên Facebook…
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Senior health official says dire infection forecasts “very unlikely”
Doctors from various departments, ministries and universities are making grim predictions about the Covid-19 coronavirus infection rate in Thailand, some saying that by mid-April cases in Thailand will reach 350,000, with about 7,000 fatalities. Responding to some of the most dire forecasts, a senior doctor at the Ministry of Public Health’s Disease Control Department is dismissing these scenarios as “very…
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2020 fiscal budget emergency fund running dry – Budget Bureau
“The emergency fund of 96 billion baht from the fiscal 2020 budget has been nearly used up,” according to Dechapiwat na Songkhla, the director of Thailand’s Budget Bureau. Dechapiwat explains that the budget includes… 18 billion baht to help people who are affected by Covid-19 and drought, 45 billion baht for cash handouts, and… 2 billion baht as compensation of interest…
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Phuket reports 9 new coronavirus cases
9 new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus have been reported in the southern island province of Phuket, bringing the total to 62 cases. Most of the new cases originated in the Patong district, again, and many in the area of the Bangla Road red light district. Details of the new cases… Case 54: A 35 year old Canadian man working at…
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Fruit exporters urge Thai growers to maintain sanitary standards
“Despite the Covid-19 crisis having a large negative impact on the economy, exports of fresh fruit from Thailand are still operational as demand from China continues, fruit exporters have urged Thai growers to ensure higher sanitary standards to protect the industry from the effects of the pandemic.” This from the president of Thai Fresh Fruit Traders and Exporters Association, Paiboon…
- Việt Nam
Hà Nội: Bị phạt 200.000 đồng vì… không đeo khẩu trang
Một phụ nữ trú phường Hàng Trống, quận Hoàn Kiếm bị xử phạt hành chính 200.000 đồng do không đeo khẩu trang ở nơi công cộng. Ngày 27/3, Công an phường Hàng Trống khi phát hiện người phụ nữ không tuân thủ quy định về phòng chống Covid- 19 đã mời về trụ sở làm việc. Tiếp đó, Ban chỉ…
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Handful of Thais catch last flight back to Thailand from Singapore
Flights are thin on the ground now and very few regional carriers are still in the air. Singapore Airlines Flight 972 was the last scheduled service to Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. Passengers, only a few dozen, mostly Thais fleeing back home to ride out the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, flew out of Singapore’s Changi Airport yesterday. Airlines worldwide are cutting flights and grounding…
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109 new coronavirus cases for Thailand (Saturday)
The Thai Public Health Ministry has reported 109 new coronavirus cases and 2 new death today. This brings the total to 1,245 cases and 6 deaths in the Kingdom. The latest figures brought the total cases to 1,245 across 57 provinces – 1,032 of the patients are Thais. Bangkok has a total of 515 cases, followed by Nonthaburi with 58…
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Hundreds of Thai hotels seek aid to protect employees
Will the Thai Social Security Office compensate hundreds of hotels pursuing emergency assistance? Hotels are doing it hard as tourism has come to a virtual halt inside Thailand and hotels are either closing or scaling back their operations substantially. Yesterday, The Thai Hotel Associations sent a letter to the Thai Chamber of Commerce notifying them that hundreds of hotels are…
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Thailand’s health ministry identifies coronavirus hotspots
The ministry of Public Health has released a list of what it considers Covid-19 coronavirus hotspots – places and times where the risk of contagion was extremely high. People who were in these places on these dates are urged to self-quarantine themselves in their homes, and to seek medical advice if they feel ill or show symptoms. The list covers…
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Chinese tourists arrested for breaking quarantine rules in Phuket
Four Chinese citizens have been arrested, after having their temperatures checked, in the Saku area, Phuket, after “defying coronavirus quarantine rules”. They spent Thursday night at Saku police station for leaving their rented accommodation without notifying authorities of their move from their previously registered address. Two of them were found at a house in Phuket Town, the other two had headed to…
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British PM Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19
The British PM has tested positive for the coronavirus. Boris Johnson says he developed “mild symptoms over the past 24 hours”, including a cough and temperature. Mr Johnson was last seen last night, UK time, as he clapped outside his home as part of a nationwide gesture thanking National Health Service staff. 55 year old Mr Johnson maintains he is now…
- Thailand News
Thailand News Today – Friday, March 27
91 new coronavirus cases, 1 more death in Thailand Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has confirmed a 91 new cases of the the Covid19 coronavirus at their daily press briefing this morning. There was also an additional death reported. The new numbers bring the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 1136 and deaths to 5. Of the…
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Army officers sidelined over illegal boxing match that caused ‘Covid-19’ cluster
The head of the army’s welfare department has been “transferred to an inactive post” along with other army brass, as an inquiry begins into a now-notorious boxing event on March 6 at the Lumphini Boxing Stadium that’s has led to scores of Covid coronavirus infections. The Royal Thai Army announced today that that Major General Rachit Arunrangsri, who was in…
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King and Queen of Malaysia under quarantine after palace staff test positive for coronavirus
Malaysia has the highest number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia (2031 at time of publication), and now its King and Queen are under quarantine after 7 staff members of the royal palace tested positive for the virus. National news agency Bernama made the announcement yesterday. Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin and his wife Tuanku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah have tested…