Record daily COVID-19 cases in Thailand, clusters linked to two prisons13/05/2021|7min
There are growing concerns around a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Thailand as two clusters linked to overcrowded prisons bring record daily case numbers.
Thailand experienced another record day of cases on Wednesday (local time) with more than 4800 cases confirmed as well as 34 deaths linked to the deadly virus.
More than 2,800 cases have been found in the past 24 hours linked to staff and inmates at the Central Women’s Correctional Institute and the Bangkok Remand Prison.
Whilst Thailand’s prisons are being battered by the virus, the wider community also saw more than 2,000 cases, combining for a daily total of 4,887.
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n this photo released by the Department of Corrections, an empty room is seen at COVID-19 prisoner field hospital set up at the Medical Correctional Institution to treat COVID-19 inmates, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 8. (AP Photo)
BANGKOK Nearly 3,000 inmates at two prisons in Thailand’s capital have tested positive for COVID-19, the Corrections Department said Wednesday, as the country battles a new wave of the coronavirus.
The department said 1,785 of the 3,274 inmates tested positive at Bangkok Special Prison, which holds detainees ahead of trial. At the Central Women’s Correctional Institution, 1,040 of the 4,475 inmates were infected, it said.
The Corrections Department announced the infections after a prominent political activist released on bail last week announced Wednesday that she had tested positive for the virus. Panusaya “Rung” Sitthijirawattanakul and fellow members of a student-led pro-democracy movement are awaiting trial on charges of defaming the monarch
Thousands infected with COVID-19 in Thai prisons
Thousands infected with COVID-19 in Thai prisons
THAILAND: People held in Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention facilities are at grave risk from COVID-19 outbreaks, Human Rights Watch said today (May 13).
Photo: Bangkok Post file.
The Thai authorities should immediately act to ensure that prisoners and detainees have access to adequate protective measures and health care. The authorities should swiftly reduce overcrowding by releasing people who do not pose a serious and concrete risk to others.
Yesterday, Thailand’s Corrections Department announced that 1,795 inmates in Bangkok Remand Prison and 1,040 in Central Women’s Correctional Institution had tested positive for COVID-19. In addition, hundreds of people detained in provincial prisons such as in Chiang Mai and Narathiwat have reportedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus.