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The week that was in Thailand news: Missing April Fools - but then everyday seems like that in Thailand!

 

 

Wednesday was a particularly depressing day.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157750-the-week-that-was-in-thailand-news-missing-april-fools-but-then-everyday-seems-like-that-in-thailand/

 

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Phuket Governor orders ‘Patong Shutdown’

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Police at the Kathu checkpoint just after midnight (Apr 5). Photo: Lt Parskon Sirichuchot

 

PHUKET: Patong has been “shut down” by order of the Phuket Governor, with all non-essential travel in or out of the tourism town denied in the hope of preventing a major outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the island.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157807-phuket-governor-orders-‘patong-shutdown’/

 

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Nine new COVID cases in Phuket, total hits 109

By The Phuket News

 

Image: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Communicable Disease Committee today (Apr 4) announced nine more confirmed cases of people in Phuket infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the total number of people in Phuket infected with the disease since the outbreak began to 109.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157808-nine-new-covid-cases-in-phuket-total-hits-109/

 

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Tourist complains about crowded visa office, shoddy treatment by Thailand

By The Nation

 

A picture taken on Friday evening shows a crowd of foreign nationals applying for visa extension at Koh Samui Immigration Office, which serves both tourists in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan.

 

Tourists stranded in Koh Samui were treated badly by Immigration officials, a German tourist moaned. The tourist, whose name is being withheld by The Nation to spare him any potential trouble, complained that he and other tourists had to be in a crowded office at the Immigration centre in Koh Samui to apply for visa extension.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157809-tourist-complains-about-crowded-visa-office-shoddy-treatment-by-thailand/

 

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Three of a family become first Covid-19 cases in Lampang

By THE NATION

 

 

Lampang province in the North of Thailand on Saturday (April 4) reported its first three confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157810-three-of-a-family-become-first-covid-19-cases-in-lampang/

 

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Khon Kaen to shutter hotels from April 7

By THE NATION

 

 

Khon Khaen will shut down all hotels on April 7 to stem the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the resolution of the province's Communicable Disease Committee on Friday (April 3)

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157811-khon-kaen-to-shutter-hotels-from-april-7/

 

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Trat halts all movement of people across its borders

By THE NATION

 

 

Trat has prohibited its people from entering and leaving the province from Saturday (April 4).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157812-trat-halts-all-movement-of-people-across-its-borders/

 

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TDRI calls for suspension of overseas arrivals to contain Covid-19 threat

By The Nation

 

 

The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has advised the government to suspend the issuance of letters by Royal Thai Embassies and consulates and the use of fit-to-fly medical certificates for people to enter the country to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infections.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157813-tdri-calls-for-suspension-of-overseas-arrivals-to-contain-covid-19-threat/

 

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152 Thai returnees who refused to be quarantined told to report to officials by 6pm

By THE NATION

 

Taweesin Visanuyothin

 

Thai returnees from foreign countries who has arrived on Friday night and had refused to be quarantined must report themselves to officials by 6pm on Saturday (April 4), the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s spokesman, Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, said on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157814-152-thai-returnees-who-refused-to-be-quarantined-told-to-report-to-officials-by-6pm/

 

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Checkpoints set up to monitor night curfew

By The Nation

 

Photo Credit: Nation Photo by Korbphuk Phromrekha

 

Police have set up checkpoint to monitor implementation of night curfew in front of Wat Sikan (Buddha Siam) on the night of Friday (April 3).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157815-checkpoints-set-up-to-monitor-night-curfew/

 

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Spain to extend state of emergency to April 26 as rise in infections slows

By Jessica Jones

 

Municipal police officers wearing face masks check a car on Gran Via street during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Susana Vera

 

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday he would ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 days until April 26, as the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed again in one of the world's worst-hit countries.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157817-spain-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to-april-26-as-rise-in-infections-slows/

 

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Britain's Labour turns page on socialism with Starmer as new leader

By Kate Holton

 

Britain's opposition Labour Party Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer leaves the BBC headquarters after appearing on The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Keir Starmer was elected as the leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party on Saturday, pledging to bring an end to years of bitter infighting and to work with the government to contain the raging coronavirus pandemic.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157819-britains-labour-turns-page-on-socialism-with-starmer-as-new-leader/

 

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Man armed with knife kills two in attacks in southeast France: mayor

 

 

Emergency services arrive on a scene of a knife attack in Romans-sur-Isere near Lyon, France April 4, 2020 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Twitter/@imyurika_ /via REUTERS

 

LYON, France (Reuters) - A man armed with a knife attacked people out shopping in the southeastern French town of Romans-sur-Isère on Saturday, killing two and wounding five, French officials said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157823-man-armed-with-knife-kills-two-in-attacks-in-southeast-france-mayor/

 

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'He's a total disgrace': Trump defends firing U.S. intel watchdog

By Jeff Mason and James Oliphant

 

FILE PHOTO: Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson arrives to testify at a House Intelligence Committee closed-door hearing on a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to fire the top watchdog of the U.S. Intelligence Community, saying Michael Atkinson did "a terrible job" in handling the whistleblower complaint that triggered an impeachment probe of Trump last year.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157825-hes-a-total-disgrace-trump-defends-firing-us-intel-watchdog/

 

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theory is dangerous fake nonsense, UK says

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton

 

Pedestrians walk past an advertisement promoting the 5G data network at a mobile phone store in London, Britain, January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the country were torched.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1157827-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-is-dangerous-fake-nonsense-uk-says/