Health

Amid pandemic coronavirus or Covid-19, some countries need medical equipment to avoid transmission of the virus. Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective that imported from China, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands. On Saturday, the Dutch health ministry announced it had recalled 600,000 face masks. The equipment had arrived from a …

This is the age for innovation and discovery of fastest technology that will serve as a treatment to everyone’s need. Here’s what the United Arab Emirates got when they finally opened a drive-through coronavirus test facility as part of efforts by the Gulf state to counter the disease. It was implemented by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed …

Mr Somchai is one of a number of hotel owners who have offered to allow the Ministry of Public Health to make use of their facilities in the fight against Covid-19. ‘If Wuhan authorities can build field hospitals with 1,000 beds in 10 days, Korat province can develop field hospitals with several hundred beds in two days,” Somchai Chatpathanasiri, owner …

Newly arrived inmates at prisons nationwide will be placed in isolation units for 14 days and undergo a health check before they can be assigned to cells, according to Pol Col Naras Savestanan, director-general of the Corrections Department. He said yesterday it must be assumed first that all new inmates as well as those who left the prisons briefly to …

Around the world, countries are expanding access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ), related compounds that are synthetic forms of quinine, which comes from cinchona trees and has been used for centuries to treat malaria. HQ which is the less toxic of the two, is also used as an anti-inflammatory to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, purposes it …

Chiang Mai province was hit by unprecedented levels of air pollution on Wednesday as intensifying forest fires sent PM2.5 levels in some areas up to 592 microgrammes per cubic metre (ug/m3) of air, almost 12 times above safe levels. The level of PM2.5 — fine dust that can get lodged in lungs and cause coronary disease — rose to 592 …

Local officials have been instructed to keep track of people returning from Bangkok and nearby provinces and ensure they go into 14-day self-isolation, to help stem the coronavirus epidemic, as a 6th infection was confirmed in the province. Governor Wichian Chantaranothai said on Tuesday the 6th patient was a 38-year-old man who caught the virus from the 5th patient, a …

One of four Covid-19 patients in Nakhon Si Thammarat was discharged from hospital in Tha Sala district yesterday and praised medical staff for their professional treatment. The 21-year-old patient, who was confirmed fully recovered, had originally been admitted on March 2 after returning from Iran where he is studying. Dr Kitti Rattanasombat, director of Tha Sala Hospital, however, said the …

China reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus for a third consecutive day Saturday, but confirmed the highest yet increase in infections from abroad. The rate of infection has been slowing for weeks in China, while the rest of the world steps up measures to try and battle the raging pandemic. The World Health Organization on Friday praised …

The Public Health Ministry reported 89 new cases on Saturday in the largest daily jump since the coronavirus update, bringing the total to 411. Thirty-two people in Greater Bangkok and some provinces contracted the virus from people infected during a boxing match. Two new patients linked to the cases involving an entertainment complex were reported in Ekkamai and Sukhumvit areas …