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The Ministry of Health will allow asymptomatic Covid-19 patients to go into home isolation to free up hospital beds for the seriously ill.
Deputy Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha says the home quarantine idea is being implemented and technology will be deployed so that doctors can monitor people's symptoms remotely.
Only people in the "green" group in Bangkok, those who do not have Covid-19 symptoms, can go into home quarantine. For example, beds are being made available for patients in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces with severe symptoms.
During the isolation period, the sick are not allowed to receive visitors or come into close contact with the elderly or children. If they share a house with someone else, they should stay in a separate bedroom and stay away from shared spaces. They should also keep their personal belongings away from others while regularly cleaning their hands, using hand sanitizer, wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing.
The National Health Security Office (NHSO) pays 1.000 baht per day per patient for three meals per day. The supervising hospital will deliver the meal and will also receive 1.100 baht per patient for the use of medical equipment.
Source: Bangkok Post
Excellent solution,
because the asympomatic persons are not going to hide or make themselves known, to avoid being forced to be taken to those “cardboard bed halls”.
May stay in quarantine nicely controlled in their own environment.
Doesn't apply to everyone if I read it that way...
“Home isolation is for people under 60 years old who test positive for the coronavirus but are asymptomatic, generally in good health, live alone or with no more than one person, are not obese or suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart and blood vessel diseases, cerebrovascular disease or stroke, serious diabetes or other conditions that doctors may deem to be serious.”
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Great solution but they come a little late.
Dozens of countries have been doing this since the start of the pandemic. Thais are intellectual late bloomers.
Finally seen the light. This should of course also have consequences for quarantine procedures, because until now, if you test positive in quarantine, even if you have no symptoms, you will be admitted to hospital.
You also have that extra insurance for that, which reimburses that and the NL health insurance does not
It's not about being insured or not, Bert - I just don't want to be hospitalized unnecessarily.
Locking up positively tested farang without symptoms in private hospitals is a huge revenue model for the hotels and private hospitals involved. Rest assured that this will be maintained for some time.
The video below shows images from the camps for construction workers (mostly migrant workers, together as many as 60.000 people, spread over 600 camps) that are now completely closed for the next two weeks. Soldiers and police guard the camps. no one is allowed out. Many camps have run out of food but volunteers provide some food.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1409549656426754061
If I have to believe the press, it concerns 81.000 people and 30 days under lock and fence.
A little late, but better than never. But would I have covid-19, would I still have to quarantine, because I'm over 60. Even if I don't have any symptoms. Ridiculous. My wife and I live in the country and I had to lie in a bed in a hospital somewhere? While I would still feel healthy? Ridiculous. There should be no age limit, but a condition limit. If you feel sick and you cannot help yourself (or have someone help you), then in quarantine or when you live in a densely populated area where you have quick contact with the neighbors… whatever.
I wonder who takes care of my pond, tends the garden when, while I don't feel ill, I were to be locked up in a hospital.
Fortunately, it's not that far yet. I think I'm going to take my temperature myself now before I go anywhere. Would I have over 37 degrees, I stay home and let no one know.
Think with you millions of Thai.
They really don't get tested if they show some symptoms of COVID.
They only get tested if there is no other option.
Otherwise the hospitals would be even fuller in my opinion
Of 10 infected people, 9 do not have a fever. By the way, as soon as you really make a fever you feel it immediately, you don't have to measure your temperature for that. Only have 37.5 left and you will most likely be lying on your bed.
Most people who are infected are completely asymptomatic and feel perfectly fine. If they were not tested, they would not even know that they have corona.