PTT executive tests positive, head office closed

The Bangkok head office of oil and gas company PTT was shut on Friday after an executive tested positive for the coronavirus.

Worapong Nakchatree. the director of PTT’s Covid-19 monitoring and surveillance centre, on Friday confirmed the infection at the building in Vibhavadi Rangsit Road.

The executive was tested after he learned that one of the delegates at a March 29 meeting of the Federations of Thai Industries had contracted the virus.

All executives and employees who worked closely with the infected executive would be told to self-quarantine for 14 days, the director said, and all those working at PTT head office would be told to work from home until April 25.

“The company has disinfected its buildings according to the standards of the Public Health Ministry,” Mr Worapong said.

PTT’s general shareholders’ meeting yesterday…