Health investigators have found COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) on the surface of a piece fitness equipment in the gym of a hotel in Samut Prakan province, where an infected French woman was quarantined, said Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, Acting Director-General of the Disease Control Department, today. He also said that health officials had conducted swab tests on […]
SAMUI (NNT) – Following the confirmation of a French national being tested positive for COVID-19 in Samui Island, even after clearing 14-days in quarantine, the Minister of Public Health has flown to the island to deliver Favipiravir antiviral drugs to local hospitals. The Minister of Public Health, Anutin Charnvirakul, has travelled to Koh Samui to […]
Four new cases of Covid-19 infections were reported on Saturday — a French woman on Koh Samui and three quarantined Thai returnees from Austria and Hong Kong — raising the total to 3,731 cases. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said the local infection was a 57-year-old French woman on Koh Samui in Surat Thai. […]
PHUKET: A 57-year-old woman from France has been confirmed as having contracted COVID-19 on Koh Samui, Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, Director of the Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, told the public at a press conference today (Oct 23). Dr Sophon pointed to the fact that the woman, who came with her husband and her child, tested […]
Four French tourists recently arrived in Phuket on a private jet and were approved to enter Thailand by the CCSA, to test the readiness of COVID-19 preventive measures on the resort island ahead of a wider reopening to foreign tourists, said Phuket Governor Narong Woonsiew on Wednesday. He assured that the provincial administration has strictly […]
PHUKET: A French tourist was arrested in Patong area of Kathu district on Tuesday for not wearing a face mask. The ‘Frenchman’, Djemouai Mhedi, 27, was detained by police on Taweewong road near the Sea Pearl intersection in tambon Patong of Kathu district. Full story: Bangkok Post Achadtaya Chuenniran BANGKOK POST
PHUKET: A 67-year-old Frenchman is facing serious fines for dropping anchor on protected corals off Koh Racha Yai, south of Phuket. Somnuek Boonyai, Chief of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) Region 6 office’s Preservation of Marine Life Section, told The Phuket News that he was notified by a member of Marine Rangers […]
PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of a 47-year-old Frenchman who was found hanged by a rope tied to a hotel balcony rail in Patong this afternoon (Mar 9). Lt Pongsathorn Phothong of the Patong Police said officers were called to the scene, in Soi Patong City, near Patong Hospital, at 1:15pm. Full story: thephuketnews.com […]
