Myanmar children latest Phuket Sandbox COVID cases
Myanmar children latest Phuket Sandbox COVID cases
PHUKET: Two Myanmar children, aged 8 and 9, have been placed in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 during the second round of RT-PCR tests conducted on Days 6-7 of their stay under the Phuket Sandbox scheme.
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Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon confirmed the news yesterday while reporting nine new local cases of infection.
Despite the children testing positive during their second mandatory test under the Phuket Sandbox scheme, Dr Kusak did not speculate whether they were already infected but passed their first test on arriving in Phuket or whether they became infected while among Phuket’s general population.
Sandbox tourists stuck in quarantine ask to go home
Sandbox tourists stuck in quarantine ask to go home
PHUKET: Twelve tourists now stuck in “alternative local quarantine” (ALQ) in Phuket after one person who arrived on the same flight to the island tested positive for COVID-19 have asked to fly home.
Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon confirmed the news yesterday (July 8). Photo: Radio Thailand Phuket
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Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon confirmed the news yesterday (July 8).
Dr Kusak explained that the 12 tourists who have asked to fly home were among the 14 people who arrived on Emirates flight EK378, which landed in Phuket on Tuesday (July 6).
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