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BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will provide free Covid-19 testing to people in professions at high risk of infection, and who are not covered by the social security system.
The tests will be conducted from May 5-31 at the Bangkok Youth Centre (Thai -Japan) in Din Daeng district, Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said on Saturday (May 8).
On April 16, the BMA had started free testing of social security members – under Article 33,39 and 40 of the Social Security Act – in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.
The youth centre is capable of testing 2,000 people per day.
From April 16 to 30, a total of 32,453 have come to the centre to get tested, of whom 808 tested positive, or 2.5 per cent.
Two deaths,1458 new cases
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published : 21 Apr 2021 at 13:22
30 Social Security Fund members wait for free Covid-19 testing at the Bangkok Youth Centre in Din Daeng district on Wednesday. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)
Two new local deaths related to Covid-19 and 1,458 new infections have raised the death toll to 110 and the number of cases to 46,643.
Apisamai Srirangson, a spokeswoman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Wednesday the 109th death was a Thai woman, 56, in Bangkok who suffered from diabetes, hypertension, chronic renal failure and obesity.
The woman developed a cough and a fever on April 10. On April 13 she was tested for Covid-19 and the result returned positive the following day.
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Alarm rises over hospital bed shortage
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Country s health system risks being stretched to its limits by covid
published : 18 Apr 2021 at 04:00
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As the number of Covid-19 cases in the third wave soars, several people including celebrities are turning to social media in a desperate attempt to find hospital beds for their families and friends.
Such calls for help have raised concerns the country s health system is being stretched to its limits.
One of the alarming voices comes from Boworn Tapla, a football player of Chiang Mai United who tested positive for the virus on April 12. As he waited for a hospital bed, the worst news came: his wife and their two little daughters also contracted the virus.