Are all asymptomatic C19-cases (foreigners/ASQ) hospitalized 14 days?

[aldriglikvid 77]

Hi, 

 

While we all have heard some cases of foreigners being tested positive for C19 early in ASQ are being sent to hospital - is it the case that all are being sent, and is it for a full 14 day period? I mean, if they already are in a quarantine and they are healthy otherwise...

[Salerno 4,535]

You are transferred to a hospital within the hour for, I believe, minimum 10 days. 

 

Could be worse, if you where in Malaysia you could end up here:

 

 

which is where a foreigner who tested positive getting a PCR test to fly home to the UK is at the moment. Company insurance but they refused him to be transferred to a private hospital.

 

Edited January 25 by Salerno

[bkk6060 13,359]

28 minutes ago, Salerno said:

You are transferred to a hospital within the hour for, I believe, minimum 10 days. 

 

Could be worse, if you where in Malaysia you could end up here:

 

 

which is where a foreigner who tested positive getting a PCR test to fly home to the UK is at the moment. Company insurance but they refused him to be transferred to a private hospital.

 

Geez, that looks terrible.

You are hospitalized here until I believe you have 2 negative tests.  So, could be up to 10 days it seems.

 

 

[aldriglikvid 77]

4 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Geez, that looks terrible.

You are hospitalized here until I believe you have 2 negative tests.  So, could be up to 10 days it seems.

 

 

Thank you sir. 

[Salerno 4,535]

Just now, bkk6060 said:

Geez, that looks terrible.

 

Sure does, the guy that's in there has another 5 days to go. Imagine that little surprise when you're about to head home!

 

Just happened to have read about it an hour or two before the OP posted here. Seemingly the Brit Embassy couldn't do anything about it (no surprise there) nor his employer "one of the largest offshore oil and gas organisations in the world" even though the company provides insurance with a single claim limit of US$999,999. All of the people have been thrown in there with only one positive test, 2700 beds, would hate to get a false positive, might not be so false in 10 days time.

[HashBrownHarry 1,956]

3 hours ago, Salerno said:

You are transferred to a hospital within the hour for, I believe, minimum 10 days. 

 

Could be worse, if you where in Malaysia you could end up here:

 

 

which is where a foreigner who tested positive getting a PCR test to fly home to the UK is at the moment. Company insurance but they refused him to be transferred to a private hospital.

 

I saw something similar happen when SARS was about, guy in Vietnam was sent to a government hospital.

 

If it's classed as a government controlled disease i guess it does n't matter how good your insurance is.

[Salerno 4,535]

1 minute ago, HashBrownHarry said:

If it's classed as a government controlled disease i guess it does n't matter how good your insurance is.

 

Yep, just one of the risks travelling in these times.

[geisha 1,560]

What happens in Thailand while in ASQ? Would they send you to hospital , will your Covid insurance 100 000 us  pay for it, and once the 100 000 runs out ??

[Salerno 4,535]

37 minutes ago, geisha said:

What happens in Thailand while in ASQ? Would they send you to hospital

 

11 hours ago, Salerno said:

You are transferred to a hospital within the hour for, I believe, minimum 10 days. 

 

37 minutes ago, geisha said:

will your Covid insurance 100 000 us  pay for it

 

Depends on your insurance; triple check it and get it in writing. Also need to consider if they will pat up front or you have to then claim.

 

38 minutes ago, geisha said:

and once the 100 000 runs out ??

 

Then you pay (unlikely to cost that much unless you actually get seriously sick).

[nickmondo 848]

53 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

 

 

Depends on your insurance; triple check it and get it in writing. Also need to consider if they will pat up front or you have to then claim.

 

 

Then you pay (unlikely to cost that much unless you actually get seriously sick).

You are not sent to a state or private hospital in Thailand if you are not showing symptoms, but are asymptomatic.  

You are sent to one of the Thai Field hospitals that have been built.

Although not as bad as the Malaysian one, they are very similar and not far off.

No privacy.

 

[ronaldo0 1,769]

1 hour ago, geisha said:

What happens in Thailand while in ASQ? Would they send you to hospital , will your Covid insurance 100 000 us  pay for it, and once the 100 000 runs out ??

They send you to hospital as far as I am aware and if sharing with wife etc and they test negative and you test positive I think they need restart 14 day quarantine in hotel again . If you test positive and feel perfectly fine I think they take you to hospital until you pass 2 tests and you basically just spend the days sitting around on a bed waiting for them to come test you . But they can keep you until as long as is needed seemingly, be it a week or 4 weeks etc .

As for insurance paying , some will pay everything, some won’t pay first two weeks in Thailand and some won’t pay if you test positive but have no symptoms but are kept in hospital. Best get best insurance possible and read and question everything before buying .

[Stevemercer 1,537]

13 hours ago, Salerno said:

Just happened to have read about it an hour or two before the OP posted here. Seemingly the Brit Embassy couldn't do anything about it (no surprise there) nor his employer "one of the largest offshore oil and gas organisations in the world" even though the company provides insurance with a single claim limit of US$999,999. All of the people have been thrown in there with only one positive test, 2700 beds, would hate to get a false positive, might not be so false in 10 days time.

 

Yes, if you didn't have the virus before you went into that field hospital, you will certainly have it after a week or so.

[Kalasin Jo 384]

Yet another reason not to travel in these times. I'm staying put in France depressing though it is with everything but shops, schools and workplaces shut since 25 October and a 6pm to 6 am curfew.

My wife, Thai, did return to Thailand from France entering on 10 January and straight in to state quarantine which turned out to be in a standard room in the Bangkok Palace Hotel. All the correct paperwork before boarding the flight obviously including a negative PCR test for original and new variant. 2 more PCR tests during that quarantine, both negative. She was then allowed to fly to Khon Kaen and get a taxi to our home on 25th. She was though offered a free bus ride home door to door but it was not compulsory. She said it would take too long and the flight cost was only 1,150 baht.

Once home she was met at our village by a village  posse...sorry I mean Covid team..... and told to go in to Kalasin today ( shared taxi!!) to register her quarantining certificate. Why couldn't they do that for her given that back home again she now has to stay within the confines of our home and the village for ANOTHER 2 weeks! She says people are very wary of going anywhere near her knowing she flew in from Europe.

[DavisH 4,190]

1 hour ago, ronaldo0 said:

They send you to hospital as far as I am aware and if sharing with wife etc and they test negative and you test positive I think they need restart 14 day quarantine in hotel again . If you test positive and feel perfectly fine I think they take you to hospital until you pass 2 tests and you basically just spend the days sitting around on a bed waiting for them to come test you . But they can keep you until as long as is needed seemingly, be it a week or 4 weeks etc .

As for insurance paying , some will pay everything, some won’t pay first two weeks in Thailand and some won’t pay if you test positive but have no symptoms but are kept in hospital. Best get best insurance possible and read and question everything before buying .

That DJ is asymptomatic and is in hospital. I was under the impression that the current field hospitals are being used by migrant workers. That may change if the hospitals are over capacity. 

[dabhand 2,642]

The Stickboybkk website has a story on this subject from a guy that had this experience. It is entitled 'A story about when ASQ goes wrong'. No link as it may not be allowed by TVF.

 

Upshot is that after a + test result (after a few days in ASQ), he is transported PDQ to the linked hospital. He had no symptoms. It's a long read and I have only seen part 1 of the experience. The 2nd part may already be out but haven't seen it yet.