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Thailand's COVID-19 Cases Skyrocket, Eroding Support for Prayut Government – The Diplomat

The Non Sung District Hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. Credit: Flickr/Public Services International Advertisement The COVID Performance Index released by Sydney’s Lowy Institute earlier this year ranked Thailand among the top five countries in terms of its responses to the pandemic. However, things have gone downhill since the outbreak of the U.K. variant at Bangkok’s flashy Thonglor district at the end of March. Since the Songkran holiday in mid-April, new daily cases have surpassed 1,000, and then, from April 23, exceeded 2,000. As of April 28, the total infections sit at 61,699 cases with 178 deaths. These figures are still relatively low compared to many other countries. However, Thailand’s affordable and accessible health care system is straining under the pressure, in large part because of a national policy of hospitalizing all COVID-19 patients including asymptomatic patients.

Hospitals shut, staff catch bug

Hospitals shut, staff catch bug 3 published : 29 Apr 2021 at 04:00 3 A number of hospitals in several provinces have had to stop providing services to patients after many of their personnel contracted Covid-19. Ruam Phaet Chai Nat Hospital in Chai Nat closed yesterday after a hospital employee was infected. The hospital has been thoroughly cleaned and will reopen on May 12. High-risk employees have been quarantined. The infected employee, 44, contracted the virus from an infected person in Ta Khli district in Nakhon Sawan. He is the 30th and latest case of Covid-19 in Chai Nat. In Trang, Ratsada Hospital reported six infected hospital personnel, with 12 others waiting for their test results. The hospital and Ratsada Public Health Office were declared maximum-control areas. Most of the infected personnel are not in patient-facing roles. As of yesterday, the hospital closed all departments, except emergency care, in order to test the rest of its per

100+ medical staff infected by patients

100+ medical staff infected by patients 3 published : 17 Apr 2021 at 08:33 3 More than 100 medical staff at many state hospitals have been forced into self-quarantine after patients failed to disclose they had been in contact with infected people. Khon Kaen Hospital on Friday ordered 105 medical staff to quarantine immediately. These personnel have been in contact with Covid-19 patients, so they are now treated as a high-risk group and need to go into a 14-day quarantine, said Dr Nataya Mills, director of Khon Kaen Hospital. The hospital had been forced to stop receiving referred cases and also to temporarily close two medical wards and one paediatric ward, she said.