Special train takes Covid patients home to northeastern Thailand

[Thaiger]

Today, “Special” train No. 971 took 137 Covid patients to various northeastern Thai provinces. The Special train left from the Rangsit railway station. A cabinet resolution earlier in the month decreed that the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public health were to arrange transportation to bring Covid patients back to their home provinces. Both ministries were ordered to cooperate with the National Health Security Office and the National Institute of Emergency Medicine. The Special train is supposed to let patients off at Nakhon Ratchasima around 1:30 pm. Then, it will stop at the Buri Ram station an hour […]

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[colinneil]

How damned stupid..... Is the train called .... Spreading covid express, because that is what it will do spread covid at every stop it makes.

[Stonker]

Just now, colinneil said:

How damned stupid..... Is the train called .... Spreading covid express, because that is what it will do spread covid at every stop it makes.

So what's your solution?

 

Do tell .....

[gummy]

3 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Today, “Special” train No. 971 took 137 Covid patients to various northeastern Thai provinces. The Special train left from the Rangsit railway station. A cabinet resolution earlier in the month decreed that the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public health were to arrange transportation to bring Covid patients back to their home provinces. Both ministries were ordered to cooperate with the National Health Security Office and the National Institute of Emergency Medicine. The Special train is supposed to let patients off at Nakhon Ratchasima around 1:30 pm. Then, it will stop at the Buri Ram station an hour […]

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I think they should have chosen a better picture for that special train report as the one pictured looks like a freight train rather than a passenger train.

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

Today, “Special” train No. 971 took 137 Covid patients to various northeastern Thai provinces.

it is actually called the Songkran Special and it left the station back in April. 

[gummy]

3 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

it is actually called the Songkran Special and it left the station back in April. 

I wonder if it left from platform 9 3/4