Samyan Mitrtown complex in Bangkok has ordered a branch of Nittaya Kai Yang Restaurant to close from December 25 to 28, after a Covid-19 patient was found to have visited the place late in the evening on December 12.
An announcement on Friday said the restaurant will open again on Tuesday, after being sterilised together with other areas of the complex, which are open as usual.
Samut Sakhon Governor Weerasak Wijitsaengsri on Saturday gave the go-ahead for setting up a field hospital.
The hospital will be set up at Samut Sakhon Provincial Stadium located in Mahachai subdistrict, Muang district to serve as a treatment and quarantine centre for confirmed patients and those suspected of contracting the Covid-19 virus in the province, a news source revealed.
The governor’s order was approved by the Samut Sakhon Communication Disease Committee, which also stipulated that unauthorised persons be prohibited from entering the stadium effective immediately. Violators will face a maximum one year imprisonment or Bt100,000 fine, or both, under the Communicable Diseases Act BE 2558, as well as a maximum two years’ imprisonment or Bt40,000 fine, or both, under the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations BE 2548.
The source added that the field hospital would have 500 beds. The governor has ordered related agencies, including Department of Public Works and Town Planning and Samut Sakhon Sports Authority to finish setting up the field hospital within two days.
Earlier this week, the province surveyed the Thailand National Sports University Samut Sakhon campus, located in Bang Ya Phraek subdistrict, regarding the possibility of turning the campus into a field hospital for Covid-19 patients.
On Thursday hundreds of locals showed up at the university to protest the province’s decision, citing that some 10,000 people live near the university, and there are many kindergartens and nurseries nearby as well as a child development centre.
The leader of pro-democracy “We Volunteer” group, Piyarat Chongthep, on Saturday decided to sell a tonne of prawns in front of Government House, in response to a decrease in seafood sales across the nation due to the new Covid-19 crisis in Samut Sakhon province.
Piyarat explained that the prawns were brought from a farm in Nakhon Pathom province. His commercial operation was supervised by the police officers there.
The latest Covid-19 crisis emerged in Thailand last week, from the Central Shrimp Market in Samut Sakhon. Initial patients included seafood vendors, their family members and migrant workers who worked there, but the coronavirus has spread to other people who visited this market and other markets in the province.
This week, several vendors who had purchased seafood from Samut Sakhon for selling in their shops or in their stalls, were found infected with the virus. Moreover, some markets have been closed after the confirmed cases, obstructing routine trading and sales.
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