PRACHIN BURI: The Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) said on Monday that furnace dust contaminated with hazardous caesium-137 found at a metal foundry in Kabin Buri district had now been safely contained.
Prachin Buri province raised its dangerous situation alert to Level 2 on Wednesday as the search continued into its second day for a missing bulky tube containing radioactive caesium-137, a highly hazardous isotope.
Thousands of inmates infected
published : 13 May 2021 at 04:00 Panusaya: Caught the virus
Nearly 3,000 inmates at Bangkok s two main prisons Bangkok Remand Prison and the Central Women s Correctional Institution have been found to be infected with Covid-19.
Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan revealed the 2,835 infections on Wednesday after democracy activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul marked her release on bail by telling her Facebook followers that she had contracted the virus. She acknowledged that many inmates have infections.
Ms Panusaya was released on May 6 after being detained for 59 days at the Central Women s Correctional Institution.
Mr Aryut said mass testing on prison officials and inmates had found 1,795 prisoners at Bangkok Remand Prison and 1,040 at the Central Women s Correctional Institution to be infected with the coronavirus.