BANGKOK, July 15 (TNA) – The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University launched its new COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits which were developed by Thai researchers and can report test results within 15 minutes only. A research team of the Biodesign Innovation Center of the faculty has successfully developed the cheap rapid test […]
BANGKOK, July 14 (TNA) – Sixty-nine “COVID-19 Comprehensive Response Teams” will start mass COVID-19 testing in 69 communities of Bangkok tomorrow. Dr Apisamai Srirangson, assistant spokesperson for the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration, said the mass testing teams would conduct active case finding as the capital had 130 clusters of COVID-19 cases. Full story: tna.mcot.net […]
As the COVID-19 outbreaks continue to skyrocket with new clusters in numerous dark red areas in many provinces across the country, a research team led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sanchai Payungporn, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, has, therefore, accelerated the development of the innovative COVID-19 screening kits – “COVID-19 SCAN” that are […]
PHUKET: Vachira Phuket Hospital Director Dr Chalermpong Sukontapol has instructed medical personnel conducting swab tests to exercise more caution after a tourist who arrived under the Phuket Sandbox scheme suffered a nosebleed from a swab sample being taken. The swab test and nosebleed happened on the tourist’s first day in Phuket, Dr Chalermpong noted. Full […]
BANGKOK, July 12 (TNA) – The National Health Security Office opened centers for rapid COVID-19 tests in Greater Bangkok today and test results can be known within 30 minutes. NHSO secretary-general Jadet Thammathat-Aree said his office together with the Institute for Urban Disease Control and Prevention and Mahidol University opened the mass testing centers with […]
PHUKET: All arrivals that flew into Phuket on the first day of the Sandbox initiative last Thursday (July 1) tested negative for COVID-19, Governor Narong Woonciew has confirmed. “About 400 tourists arrived in Phuket on July 1, and all of them were tested for the first time at the airport,” Governor Narong said today (July […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) is advising people against buying antibody testing kits, to test themselves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, because the result could be inaccurate and lead to misunderstandings. DMS Director-General Dr. Supakit Sirilak said the department already has an immunity tracking system for vaccine recipients, so people need […]
More than 700 people have volunteered to join a research project, initiated by Thailand’s well known virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan, of the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, to study the immune response and safety of mixed COVID-19 inoculation, using AstraZeneca and Sinovac. In his Facebook post today (Saturday), Dr. Yong thanked all the volunteers […]
