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Sukhothai reveals timeline of its first Covid-19 patient

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

A 42-year-old woman has been confirmed as the first Covid-19 patient in Sukhothai province.

The woman had a history of travelling to Samut Sakhon province, the

Disease Investigation Team of Sukhothai Provincial Public Health Office said.

The woman is a masseuse by profession at Mahachai subdistrict in the Muang district of Samut Sakhon.

Her timeline:

December 25: At 6am, she leaves Mahachai for Sukhothai with her 30-year-old boyfriend and a 52-year-old female friend in a private car.

At 9am, they stop at a petrol station in Ayutthaya province.

At 11am, they stop at a restaurant in Nakhon Sawan province.

At 3pm, she arrives in her hometown in Ban Kluai subdistrict, in the Muang district of Sukhothai and reports to health volunteers to be checked for Covid-19 at Sukhothai Hospital and to quarantine at home for a period of 14 days

At 5pm, she is tested for Covid-19 at Sukhothai Hospital.

December 26: At

10pm, she is confirmed positive.

December 27: At 8am, Sukhothai Hospital sends an ambulance to pick up her two high-risk contacts (her boyfriend and the friend). Both of them test negative. Eight other low-risk contacts are now in quarantine.

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Timeline of the first case in Lopburi

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

A 32-year-old Thai woman working in an animal feed factory has been confirmed as infected with Covid-19, the first case in Lopburi province.

The woman lived with friends at a house in Mahachai subdistrict in the Muang district of Samut Sakhon province, a Lopburi Public Health officer said.

The patient confirmed that she had worn a mask at all times outside the house.

The timeline to her positive test:

December 10-18: She lives in her residence in Samut Sakhon.

December 19: She leaves at

5am from Samut Sakhon to Mo Chit Bus Terminal by motorcycle taxi and taxi, wearing a mask all the time.

8.30am: Departure from Mo Chit back to her house in Kong Thanu subdistrict, in the Muang district of Lopburi province. She reports to officers and health volunteers and quarantines herself in the house.

December 20: From

8.30am to 9.30am, she gies out to vote in the Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) elections in front of a mill near Wat Bot temple. At the PAO election booth, there were only election staff members. She said she was wearing a mask, her temperature was checked, she washed her hands with alcohol-based gel, wore gloves and approached a separate booth.

December 21-24:

She remained in home quarantine in a house and came to know on December 25 that a friend who lived with her in Samut Sakhon was infected with Covid-19.

December 25: She experienced sore throat in the morning and immediately notified health volunteers and went to King Narai Hospital for a Covid-19 test, wearing a mask and riding alone on the back of a pickup truck.

December 26: At 1am, Phra Narai Maharaj Hospital sends an ambulance to pick her up for treatment in a separate hospital room.

At 8pm, her positive test for Covid-19 is confirmed.

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Nakhon Pathom reports seven new Covid-19 cases

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

There were seven new Covid-19 cases in Nakhon Pathom province on Sunday.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the province has risen to 37.

The six males and one female live in Bang Len, Don Tum and Muang Nakhon Pathom districts.

The province also announced the areas that posed a risk for infection, revealing the dates when people carrying the virus had visited those places:

▪︎ Cockfight stadium, Bang Len district (December 12, 19)

▪︎ Cockfight stadium, Don Tum district (December 21)

▪︎ Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives flea market, Don Tum district (December 7-23)

▪︎ Fish market, Bang Len district (December 8-23)

▪︎ Flea market near Wat Rai Khing, Sam Phran district (December 1-12, December 15-16)

▪︎ Flea market near Wat Sam Phran, Sam Phran district (December 17)

▪︎ Don Wai floating market, Sam Phran district (December 14)

▪︎ Flea market in Tha Tamnak subdistrict, Nakhon Chai Si district (December 12-18)

▪︎ Flea market near Wat Klang Bang Kaew, Nakhon Chai Si district (December 10-21)

▪︎ Tha Kham flea market in Bang Rakam subdistrict, Nakhon Chai Si district (December 14-23)

▪︎ Flea market near Wat Huai Tako, Nakhon Chai Si district (December 11-12, December 16, December 18-19)

People who visited these areas have been advised to monitor their health and follow the province’s measures to contain the spread of Covid-19.

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Restrictions imposed in Nakhon Pathom to contain Covid-19 outbreak

NationalDec 27. 2020Surasak Charoensirichot

By The Nation

Nakhon Pathom provincial authorities have launched four measures to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Nakhon Pathom Governor Surasak Charoensirichot signed the order on Saturday.

The first order makes it mandatory for entrepreneurs to implement measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, such as creating awareness among employees, providing face masks and hand sanitising gels, screening employees’ health, preventing employees from entering areas with risk of infection and instructing employees to undergo the Public Health Ministry’s Covid-19 preventive measures.

The second order imposes curfew hours on venues with risk of infection, such as gaming centres, internet cafes, department stores, theatres, massage shops, snooker shops, restaurants, pubs, bars, karaoke shops and fishing ponds. The announcement includes a ban on selling alcoholic drinks.

The third order temporarily closes cockfighting stadiums in the province until the situation improves.

The fourth order bars the organising of events that can draw a lot of people, such as concerts, exhibitions, religious activities and sports competitions.

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94 domestic cases among 121 new Covid-19 patients

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported 121 new patients, including 94 domestic cases, over a 24-hour period on Sunday.

The 94 domestic cases included 18 migrant workers found positive in proactive testing.

As for cases linked to the Samut Sakhon outbreak, Bangkok found 16 new patients, two in Krabi, one in Nakhon Sawan, two (a Myanmar and a Vietnamese) in Nonthaburi, one each in Narathiwat, Pathumthani, Surin, Samut Prakarn, Khon Kaen, Saraburi, three in Ratchaburi, five in Phetchaburi, eight in Rayong, and 11 in Nakhon Pathom.

Forty cases are still under investigation to track the source of infection — one in Bangkok, three each in Phetchaburi and Tak, two each in Nakhon Pathom and Nonthaburi, 28 in Rayong (gambling den cluster), and one in Samut Songkhram.

So far 38 provinces in Thailand have reported new cases.

Eight visitors from abroad were found positive in quarantine facilities. The new cases in quarantine facility comprised one Thai who had returned from Russia, one from Germany, two from Egypt, one Yemeni man travelled from the United Arab Emirate and three Swiss came from Sweden and Hungary.

A Myanmar driver was found positive at the border area and was deported to his country for treatment.

Meanwhile, nine patients have recovered and been discharged.

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand increased to 6,141 (1,435 in state quarantine and 1,356 from active case finding), of whom 1,902 are in hospital and ad-hoc quarantine facilities and 4,161 have recovered and been discharged, while 60 have died.

According to Worldometer as of 10am on Sunday, the total number of confirmed cases had increased to 80.71 million (up by 451,124), 56.9 million have recovered, 22 million are active cases (105,611 in severe condition) and 1.76 million have died (up by 7,108).

Thailand ranks 142nd for most cases in the world, while the US has the most number with 19.43 million, followed by India 10.18 million, Brazil 7.46 million, Russia 3 million and France 2.55 million.

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Wonder cloud wows netizens

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The NationPictures of a straight-edged cloud in Lampang province went viral on social media at noon on Saturday.

The pictures had been taken by netizens in the province, believing that it was a wonderful occurrence before the New Year festival.

A straight-edged cloud, also called cutting phenomenon, occurs as a result of change in climate when a high-pressure system is weakening and a low-pressure system is strengthening.

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New Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand still in early stages, expert warns

NationalDec 27. 2020Dr Yong Poovorawan

By The Nation

The current Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand was still in its early stages, a medical expert warned, adding many infected people would have little symptoms or be asymptomatic so they could spread the infection.

Dr Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn’s Faculty of Medicine, said that the cycle threshold in the outbreak is low, meaning asymptomatic patients or those with little symptoms could spread the virus very well.

All suspects now need to test for the virus with RT-PCR method, including those without symptoms.

The government also needs to hasten proactive search in the outbreak areas as quickly as possible, while private hospitals should lower testing price.

Currently, the vaccine is registered in the country of manufacture, both normal or emergency vaccine. There are already six types, hoping that they will be used soon, Dr Yong said.

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Rayong implements lockdown measures to contain Covid-19

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

Rayong provincial authorities have issued orders to close places at risk of Covid-19 both inside and outside the city after 36 people were infected in the province.

The Rayong Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration announced closure of the following locations:

Boxing stadium;

Boxing training gyms;

Cockfight ring;

Cockfight practice ground;

Snooker and billiards establishments.

In Muang district, the following venues will be closed:

Entertainment venues, pubs, bars, and similar establishments;

Educational institutions, cram school and schools of art, sports and vocational schools both in public and private sector;

Child development centre and early childhood development centre, both public and private sector;

Nurseries, except permanent home service;

Home care for the elderly, except permanent home service;

Business establishments; Massage parlours, herbal steam bath place, massage shops — facial, body, foot;

Game shop, internet cafe, and karaoke booth;

Beauty clinic;

Fitness centre and gym;

Public swimming pool;

Learning park;

Museum;

Learning centre or any other place with the same services;

Public library;

Places engaged in tattooing or piercing of the skin or any part of the body;

Theatre;

Water park;

Playground;

Amusement park;

Department store, shopping centre, community mall, stores selling building materials, and computer and technology distribution centres; Supermarkets, drugstores, shops selling necessities, telecommunication businesses, banks, government offices and state enterprises to remain open;

Restaurants in malls are open only for take-home orders.

Measures for areas outside Muang district:

Pubs, bars, entertainment establishments and service-like establishments open until midnight.

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Toxic haze hits five areas in Bangkok and its vicinity

NationalDec 27. 2020

By The Nation

Air pollution in five areas around Bangkok and its vicinity hit dangerous levels on Sunday morning with PM2.5 readings coming in at 21 to 61 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3), the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) reported.

Thailand’s standard for safe levels of PM2.5 (particles less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter) is 50 μg/m3.

As of 7am, toxic haze hit the following five areas:

1. Ma Charoen-Phetkasem 81 Road (61μg/m3) in Nong Khaem district.

2. The entrance to Thonburi Market (Sanam Luang 2) (57μg/m3) in Thawi Watthana district.

3. Phutthamonthon Sai 1 Road (54μg/m3) in Taling Chan district.

4. Bang Khun Thian district office (51μg/m3).

5. Tha Phra intersection (51μg/m3) Bangkok Yai district.

People in areas where PM2.5 pollution is bad have been advised to monitor their health and reduce time spent on outdoor activities, especially the elderly, children, and patients with respiratory problems.