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8,000 beds prepared for Bangkok s Covid cases
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published : 15 Apr 2021 at 15:52
15 Workers of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration prepare to turn the Bangkok Arena sports centre in Nong Chok district into a field hospital on Wednesday. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
About 8,000 beds at hospitals, hospitels and field hospitals were prepared for Covid-19 cases in Greater Bangkok, Government House said on Thursday.
Of them, about 6,000 beds are at existing hospitals and hospitels, 450 at the hospitels run by the Department of Medical Services, 100 beds at the hospitels operated by Ramathibodi Hospital, 700 beds at the field hospitals of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in Bang Khunthian and Bang Bon districts, and 1,000 beds at the field hospital at Bangkok Arena in Nong Chok district.
Army delivers donated aid to fleeing Karen
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Five vessels hired to ferry basic supplies
published : 6 Apr 2021 at 06:23
31 Soldiers on Monday check basic supplies donated by Thais before they are loaded on long-tailed boats which will carry the goods to Karen refugees in Myanmar. 36th Ranger Forces Regiment photo
The government has shipped items donated by different organisations to Karen refugees fleeing the violence in Myanmar, the Third Army Region said on Monday.
Its commander, Lt Gen Apichet Suesat, who is in charge of security in the North, said he had instructed the 36th Ranger Forces Regiment to deliver the donations, which included dried food and medicines, to Myanmar citizens sheltering on the banks of the Salween River, opposite the Thai border in Mae Hong Son.
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[Reuters]
The coronavirus pandemic has stigmatized and stranded migrants who should be vaccinated promptly and valued as essential to the region’s economic recovery, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday as an international conference on migration opened in Bangkok.
The Asia-Pacific’s migrant workforce – which comprises 40 percent of the world’s migrants – symbolizes the region’s dynamism, said Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, a U.N. undersecretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
“The effects [of the pandemic] on migrants have been devastating. … They have lost jobs and livelihoods,” Armida said in a speech to open the three-day intergovernmental meeting here.