Covid UPDATE: 9,539 new cases, provincial totals

[Thaiger]

The CCSA has confirmed 9,539 new Covid infections & 86 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours. 103 of today’s cases were reported from the Thai prison system. Here are today’s Thai provincial totals… • HERE is a list of restrictions starting tomorrow for all dark red provinces. It includes all the transportation restrictions, curfew details and provinces in the Dark Red zones. • The ministries of Public Health and Transport have prepared a 5,000-bed field hospital at Suvarnabhumi Airport in the new Satellite 1 building, a new terminal that hadn’t come into operation yet. Patients with moderate and mild […]

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[AdvocatusDiaboli]

Oh the creative accounting by Phuket officials ….. 9 infective on Saturday …

The two Myanmar children were counted separately and were not added to the total number of infections recorded in Phuket since Apr 3, which as of yesterday stood at 785.

https://www.thephuketnews.com/myanmar-children-latest-phuket-sandbox-covid-cases-80649.php

I wonder how many people on Phuket are counted separately? But as stated in the article …. DON’T PANIC!

[BookShe]

BREAKING: Bangkok Airways is temporarily suspending the following flights from 13th - 31st July 2021:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/2708.png Between Bangkok – Phuket
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/2708.png Between Bangkok – Chiang Mai
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/2708.png Between Bangkok – Trat
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/2708.png Between Bangkok – Sukhothai
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/2708.png Between Bangkok – Lampang

 

They say it's a preventive measure. So why do they still flying to Samui? It doesn't make any sense. Fully vaccinated tourists must be tested upon arrival, but unvaccinated locals can go anywhere with a 7-day old test???? As an ex-pat, I don't usually get surprised by their incompetence, and stupidity but this one is above the Thai standards.

 

[KaptainRob]

23 minutes ago, BookShe said:

They say it's a preventive measure. So why do they still flying to Samui? It doesn't make any sense.

Samui is their home base and currently almost impossible to access other than by car and ferry.  Long swim too.