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spa, fitness industries etc. together with
measures to close the entry - exit of
Phuket of both land and water, effective
from March 30 to April 30, 2020 also April
10-30, 2020 it was scheduled to close the
air route.
In addition, the province has issued
a 1717/2563 order to announce the
The governor was explaining the idea of Phuket closure of hotels in order to control the
developing plan in the future spread of diseases and an order 1823/

2563 on the closure of places of high risk.
we find no new infections. This allowed us to determine measures to
control the spread of the viral infection in
Question: At the time of Phuket’s Patong sub-district Kathu district area with
apparent confrontation with the problem, the following criteria:
there was little knowledge of this - Phuket Provincial Public Health
emerging disease. You have managed, Office with Kathu and Patong Municipality:
with the cooperation of various sectors All personnel in the area of Patong sub-
and agencies, including public health, district and Bangthao village, Choengthale
police, local government organizations, sub-district have to be checked for fever.
village health volunteers, village chiefs, If anyone is found to have known
village headmen, private sectors, symptoms that fall into the scope of the
charitable and volunteer organizations, disease, they must be sent to separate
as well as citizens and foreigners. What quarantine, or control site, to monitor the
have you done? symptoms at that designated location.
Answer: As the statistics of infected - Have Patong municipality clean
persons increased, we planned with public places, roads, residences, and
Phuket Public Health and hospitals in shops in Patong sub-district and disinfect
Phuket jointly, to set up a 110 bed field the houses.
hospital in Phuket City Hall to This operation received good
accommodate the infected. We opened cooperation from all sectors whether
this hospital to receive patients on March public health, police, local government
27, 2020, along with receiving cooperation organizations, village health volunteers,
from Supitcha Hotel, as a place to receive village chiefs, village headmen, private
patients, for monitoring. sectors, charitable and volunteer
Later, when assessing various organizations and volunteer private sector.
situations the meeting of the They all joined together to door knock
Communicable Disease Committee of residents for the purpose of screening.
Phuket province voted jointly to issue Checking for fever, giving relief bags,
announcements and orders to close the introducing a milk distribution project, and