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Medical Expert Wants To Ban All Foreigners From Entering Thailand

A Thai medical expert wants the Thai government to stop the current influx of foreigners into the kingdom.

16/8/2020

MEDICAL EXPERT WANTS TO BAN ALL FOREIGNERS FROM ENTERING THAILAND

A leading Thai medical expert is calling on the government to halt and suspend its relatively successful programme, currently up and running, which allows a range of foreigners with links and ties to the kingdom to return at enormous expense, sometimes costing $5,000 to $6,000 and in compliance with a strict and demanding regime.

This entry regime, administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is turning out to be a lifeline for many hotels in the kingdom facing bankruptcy while others queue up to host foreigners as part of the alternative quarantine scheme run in conjunction with Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health.

However, on Saturday, it is reported that Professor Thira Woratanarat, an expert in preventative medicine at Chulalongkorn’s University’s Faculty of Medicine, has called on the government to halt all non-essential travel to the kingdom by foreigners.

The doctor also called for any tourism-related travel bubble initiatives to be postponed for at least 6 months.

Professor Thira points to his own calculations which anticipate up to 100,000 passengers will have availed of the re-entry route into Thailand in the last three months of the year.

The Thai medical expert says that he is concerned at the numbers currently testing positive within quarantine.

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Above; Dr Thira Woratanarat

It is not clear why the Thai doctor feels that the number of foreigners arriving into Thailand should be limited at this point. He disclosed that by his own calculations suggested that 500 of those arriving may not have been properly screened.

However, all foreigners availing of the entry programme must undertake several certified tests even before flying to Thailand, a process which is scrupulously supervised by officials at the relevant Thai embassies worldwide before certificates of entry are issued.

Arriving in Thailand, on the especially approved flights, the arrivals must also undergo another rigorous screening and testing process before being taken to their alternative quarantine scheme quarters where they are placed under medical supervision and strict security for the full duration of their stay.

Despite this, Dr Thira maintains that the risk of an outbreak of the Covid 19 virus again in Thailand is increasing.

The Thai government and its policy advisors with the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) have dominated all decisions in Thailand since the state of emergency was called.

This has meant a firm and unwavering emphasis on health policy first and foremost.

The problem arguably may be that, as of now, the country is fixated on preventing a second outbreak or the dreaded second wave above all other considerations including the 4 million officially employed within the tourism sector.

However, the fears raised by Dr Thira have been added to this week also by another medical expert and indeed a colleague of his at Chulalongkorn University.

Dr Thiravat Hemachudha is the director of the Health Science Centre of Emerging Diseases at the respected institution.

Firstly, this medical expert appears to dismiss the theory that the Covid 19 virus was manipulated at a Level 4 research laboratory in Wuhan China, a possibility that the US and UK intelligence services have raised as a real one and provided some evidence for without coming to a conclusion at this stage in their assessment.

The evidence put forward suggested an emergency evacuation at the Wuhan facility in mid-October of last year from October 7th to October 24th.

The evidence consisted of cellphone activity which was reviewed by the US intelligence service but they could not confirm that the facility was shut down.

Dr Thiravat Hemachudha is also a professor and acknowledged medical expert being a neurologist with particular expertise on rabies. On this speciality, he is also a member of a World Health Organization panel.

The World Health Organization headed by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghegreyesus, who has been accused of covering up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia where he was health minister, also Beijing's choice for the WHO Director General position, and recently criticized by the US  for dishonesty and centric bias towards China during the pandemic, which resulted in US funding to the organization being temorarily terminated, still insist along with many other scientists that the virus most likely spread from a fish market in Wuhan.

This week, the Thai doctor warned that new studies on horseshoe bats carried out in China and Vietnam suggest strongly that human consumption of the bats was the key cause of this virus.

MENZZOO MAGAZINE

August 2020

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