50 infected by virus in Klong Toey
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published : 30 Apr 2021 at 04:00
75 Disease control workers are transporting Covid patients and their belongings from Klong Toey slum community in Bangkok to a field hospital on Thursday. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
At least 50 people in a Klong Toey community in central Bangkok have been confirmed as being infected with the Covid-19 virus.
Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang announced on his Facebook page that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and Institute for Urban Disease Control and Prevention had used an express analysis mobile unit to test 925 residents in the community on Tuesday.
The district office and Erawan Medical Centre have been ordered to take the infected to field hospitals as quickly as possible.
published : 23 Feb 2021 at 18:50
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has introduced new services in BMA-run hospitals to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang said the BMA was launching The New Normal Health Service to ease overcrowding in BMA-run hospitals, a factor that had led to the virus spreading among patients and health workers.
Four million out-patients and 100,000 in-patients use the BMA s hospitals each year.
Mr Aswin said the new normal services were telemedicine to allow remote communication and diagnosis between doctors and patients plus blood testing at home and delivering prescription medicines at drug stores near patients homes or even with the help of postal couriers.
Thailand logs 1 death, 198 new Covid cases Sunday
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published : 24 Jan 2021 at 12:36
updated: 24 Jan 2021 at 15:43
47 A worker adjusts his face mask as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus inside an elevator with a restriction notice in Bangkok on Jan 18, 2021. (AFP file photo)
Thailand on Sunday recorded 198 new coronavirus cases, 118 of them local transmissions, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 13,500. One new death was reported, raising the accumulated toll to 73.
Deputy Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokeswoman Apisamai Srisangson said the new fatality was a 73-year-old woman who had been in close contact with a Covid-19 patient in her family in Samut Sakhon.