Health

A positive tested Ubon lady already escaped the quarantine period and head back to her hometown in northeastern Thailand. Ubon Ratchathani’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation reported on Sunday (April 5) that a Khemarat district woman aged 30 years, who left her apartment in Bangkok’s Soi Pattanakarn 43, tested positive for Covid-19 after she entered the province. “The province’s latest patient …

According to World Health Organization (WHO) statement, smokers in Indonesia are at high risk of “severe or critical” infection with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “Smokers are at high risk for heart disease and respiratory disease, which are high risk factors for developing severe or critical disease with COVID-19,” said Dr. Paranie, representative of WHO Indonesia. “Therefore, smokers in Indonesia …

The enhanced community quarantine in the Philippines has been challenging the people to boost their immune system through taking vitamins, eating nutritious foods, getting enough sleep and as much as possible to stay at home so that there will be a reduction of infected people. But there are other ways to keep the immune system strong especially at this time …

Local hospitals in Thailand have been facing the lack of medical masks and supplies due to the virus outbreak and the government didn’t seem to sincerely assist with this matter. However, the president of the Help Crime Victim Club, Atchariya Ruangrattanaphong, has raised a donation campaign for Thais to give their money and turn in to masks and medical supplies. …

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 …