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  • Covid-19 NewsThai provinces put on alert to screen anyone travelling from Phuket
    ThaigerMonday, May 11, 2020
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    Thai provinces put on alert to screen anyone travelling from Phuket

    Phuket’s on a blacklist of sorts, at least as far as the Interior Ministry is concerned. Thailand’s provincial governors have been put on alert to screen everyone arriving from the island province of Phuket. They also been instructed to quarantine anyone suspected of being infected with Covid-19. Chalerm Promlet, the Interior Ministry’s permanent secretary, issued the instructions to provincial governors…

  • Covid-19 News2 Songkhla immigration officers infected with Covid-19, 70 at risk
    ThaigerWednesday, April 22, 2020
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    2 Songkhla immigration officers infected with Covid-19, 70 at risk

    2 immigration officials from the southern province of Songkhla are reported to be infected with Covid-19, putting about 70 others at risk after close contact with the officials. The provincial communicable disease committee made the announcement today. The new cases, both officers working at the Sadao border checkpoint, brings the tally in the province to 39 after 2 weeks with…

  • Covid-19 News660,000 people in Thailand under watch as potential “high-risk” Covid-19 infections
    ThaigerMonday, April 13, 2020
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    660,000 people in Thailand under watch as potential “high-risk” Covid-19 infections

    660,000 people around Thailand have been identified as at “high-risk of contracting or spreading Covid-19. The director-general of the Health Service Support Department, Dr. Tharet Krasnairawiwong, says that over the past 2 months more than 11.8 million households around Thailand have been visited, identifying potential risk clusters and people who may have come into contact with the coronavirus. “This group of…

  • Covid-19 News111 new Thai coronavirus cases. 3 more deaths, all foreigners
    ThaigerWednesday, April 8, 2020
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    111 new Thai coronavirus cases. 3 more deaths, all foreigners

    Thailand’s National Covid-19 Coronavirus Disease Management Centre has announced 111 new confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus today. Total cases now stand at 2,369 nationwide. 3 foreign men died, pushing the total death toll up to 30. 42 of today’s new cases were all returnees from a religious festival in Indonesia. The new fatalities include a 48 year old Russian man…

  • Covid-19 NewsCovid-19 coronavirus questions and answers
    AnukulMonday, March 23, 2020
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    Covid-19 coronavirus questions and answers

    Everything you wanted to know which we answer to the best of our current knowledge…. 1. How does the virus/infection spread? Mostly spread through contact with an infected person through coughing, sneezing, nasal secretion and saliva. It is understood that the virus can be airborne for at least a short time. So just being in the same vicinity as an…

  • Covid-19 NewsThai family of three are focus of local coronavirus outbreak in northern Bangkok
    ThaigerWednesday, February 26, 2020
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    Thai family of three are focus of local coronavirus outbreak in northern Bangkok

    UPDATE Three worrying new Thailand coronavirus cases are being reported as coming from the same family. A 65 year old man, the grandfather in the family, had returned from Japan with his wife but didn’t disclose his situation or travel history to health workers when he took himself to hospital with a fever. The grandfather tested positive and his workplace,…

  • Covid-19 NewsUPDATE: China coronavirus deaths reach 1665, Taiwan reports first fatality
    ThaigerSunday, February 16, 2020
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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…

  • Covid-19 NewsCoronavirus myths busted
    ThaigerThursday, February 13, 2020
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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…

  • HealthPatient reveals he contracted HIV from donated blood
    ThaigerMonday, May 13, 2019
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    Patient reveals he contracted HIV from donated blood

    “We are continuously improving the screening process for donated blood.” A young Thai-Japanese man has contracted HIV via a blood transfusion given as part of his leukaemia treatment at a Bangkok private hospital 15 years ago. But Bumrungrad International Hospital, where the man received treatment for years, says the infected blood came from Thai Red Cross Society and it was…

  • Thailand NewsWoman dies after being bitten by centipede
    ThaigerTuesday, August 21, 2018
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    Woman dies after being bitten by centipede

    A 69 year old woman has died after being bitten by a centipede in Chanthaburi, east of Rayong near Trat. Thanet Puapae said at the funeral of his mother, Samnao Puapae, that she had died the day before of complications caused by the centipede bite. Thanet said his mother was selling kanom chin (Thai-style curried noodles) in a local temple…