To relieve the crunch on medical facilities, COVID-19 patients will be allowed to leave the hospital if they do not have serious symptoms after 10 days.
As beds continue to be filled by the thousands of new daily cases, the Public Health Ministry said patients with few or no symptoms could complete their 14-day isolation at home, COVID-19 task force spokesperson Apisamai Srirangsan said today. She said that they must stay home to prevent spread of the virus and will not be cleared to return to work during that period.
Thailand has hit the limits of its mandatory hospitalization policy, under which anyone found to have the virus has been required to be admitted for at least 14 days to make a full recovery.
The penalty for failing to stay at home wasn’t mentioned. The reaction to the change was generally negative, with people saying they did not have much faith in…
