Phuket Provincial Health Office rejects pilot request for coronavirus to become endemic
After meeting more than a thousand people a day
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Phuket Provincial Health Office confirmed that it has never proposed to be a pilot province for endemic disease.
After the number of new infected people soared past thousands per day.
with a summary of proposals sent to Prof. Central, such as reducing the detention date from 10 to 5 days
At 3 p.m. on February 21, 65, Dr. Kusak Kukiatkul
Doctor of Public Health, Phuket Province
Mentioned the meeting to summarize the proposals of Phuket Province.
To send information to Prof. As follows: 1. Reduce the period of quarantine of infected people from 10 days to 5 days of quarantine and another 5 days to be able to go back to work as usual.
But follow Universal Prevention measures. 2. Adjust the daily reporting of infected people.
Reports were made only for patients with moderate symptoms (yellow), severe symptoms (red), and death patients.
and has been found to be infected with covid. Those who have no symptoms more than 50 % are asked to be sent back to the province of travel.
Because Phuket is a frontier city that has loved people from many different places, the public health resources that are currently available are limited.
In the case of proposing Phuket to be a pilot province in the announcement of COVID-19
endemic
in the part of Phuket
Phuket Provincial Public Health Doctor said that there has not been any suggestion of this matter.
which he did not know how this matter was conveyed
At today's meeting, no matter was presented.
which had previously been discussed
But see that at the moment it cannot be announced as a pilot area
due to the increasing number of patients
The mortality rate is still above the measures laid out.
Despite the low number of deaths, there are still more than 0.1%. So far, I would like to confirm that Phuket has not offered itself as a pilot area.
in the declaration of COVID-19
It is an endemic disease in any way.
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