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Thailand confirms fifth case of China Coronavirus


BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand on Friday confirmed its fifth case of the new coronavirus, a senior public health official said, in the second instance in which a patient was not detected at the airport before entering the country.

“The patient is a 33-year-old woman from Wuhan on vacation,” Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Patucha told Reuters, adding that she was under quarantine at Rajavithi hospital and her condition was improving.

The woman arrived in Bangkok on Jan. 21 with her daughter and visited a private hospital complaining of a fever, coughing and muscle aches before being transferred to a government hospital on Jan. 23, Sathit said.

Her daughter tested negative for the virus.

A Thai woman who contracted the virus after spending the New Year in Wuhan was admitted to Nakhon Pathom hospital, 60 km (40 miles) west of Bangkok, on Jan. 15 and discharged on Friday after lab tests cleared her of the virus, the Public Health Ministry said in a statement.

Thailand currently has two patients under quarantine for the virus.

China has stepped up measures to contain the virus, which has killed 25 people and infected more than 800, with public transport suspensions in 10 cities, temples shutting, and the rapid construction of a new hospital to treat those infected.

The Wuhan airport was closed on Jan. 23.

 

This is The Pattaya Avenue as it stands on the afternoon of 31st December 2019.  Will it look the same on 1st April 2020?  It might or it might not.

There is a thread about the potential development of The Avenue, however I have kept this as a sepparate post.  Hopefully updates as time goes on.

Hanoi street life. 
 
This is what its all about in the evenings. Sat on the street with a beer and some food, and just watching the world go by. I could happily do this every single night i'm there.

Guess we need a food thread 😊

My lunch today.....only thing I ate all day.

I started the "Under 300 Baht ... And Good!" thread several years ago on other Pattaya boards to disprove a particularly idiotic statement by Pattaya's least intelligent and most corrupt Internet poster.  That hungry little numpty claimed  if you spent less than 300 baht on farang food in Pattaya,  you got "garbage." 

OK, as I said I intend to copy / continue my "old frog takes another leap" report on here.

Street Photographs from Pattaya