Police, soldiers enforce Thailand's nationwide COVID-19 curfew
04 April, 2020
Police and soldiers wearing protective masks create hundreds of checkpoints across Thailand on Friday (Apr 3) night to enforce an indefinite nationwide curfew, banning most of the people from outside in a bid to curb the spread of the brand new coronavirus.
Over the normally bustling capital of Bangkok, persons rushed at night to get home prior to the curfew took influence on Friday night at 10pm and running until 4am the very next day.
"I believe the curfew is good since it will limit the time and number of folks who travel every day," said Wiranyupha Rotthongsen, a 29-year-old salesperson who was simply waiting near the city's Victory Monument for a bus to go back home.
"However, it could put me vulnerable to missing the bus, or I would need to wait longer, therefore i have to have better planning as time passes,” she said.
The curfew includes exceptions for folks transporting medical supplies and health personnel going to and from work.
Authorities said police, army and other security forces would create 421 checkpoints in the united states to enforce it.
Thailand was the first country outside China to report a case of the brand new coronavirus, which since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan late this past year has infected a lot more than 1 million people worldwide and killed at least 50,000.
Since last month, the amount of confirmed cases in Thailand has jumped from simply a few dozen to practically 2,000, prompting more strict social isolation measures by the federal government.
As of Friday, the state number of instances in Thailand was 1,978 with 19 fatalities.
Thailand will temporarily ban all passenger flights from landing in the united states to curb the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the country's aviation agency said on Friday.
The ban on incoming flights should come into influence on Saturday morning and run before end of Monday, the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand said within an order published late on Friday.
Anyone arriving on a flight that became popular before the order came into effect should be quarantined for two weeks after arrival in Thailand, the order said.
It came just hours after a commotion at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport when a lot more than 100 Thai nationals arrived on different flights on Friday, a Thai immigration officer told Reuters.
"A public health officer allowed them to quarantine themselves in the home. There was a commotion because they said they weren't aware they had to be put in circumstances quarantine," the officer said.
Since Mar 1, there's been a rising number of people who were infected abroad before returning home. The authorities have put practically 2,000 persons who came into connection with them in quarantine.
Thailand has six airfields, including in the administrative centre Bangkok, which is under a curfew from Friday, and the favorite tourist island Phuket, which was likely to shut its airport from Apr 10 to Apr 30.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
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