Quarantine in Thailand: The good, the bad and the boring
Thai returnee from Germany describes quiet stay in once-raucous Pattaya
At eight in the morning, the doorbell rings and a familiar voice announces that my breakfast is ready. Like every morning in the past nine days, I open the door to find no one in sight — just a plastic container of food on a small table.
Emmy Sasipornkarn offers a first-person account of her trip from Germany to Thailand and life under quarantine. (DW photo)
The same contact-free procedure is repeated for lunch at 12pm and dinner at 5pm. This is a “normal” day in the life of Thailand’s state-sponsored 14-day coronavirus quarantine, compulsory upon entering from Germany.
Trying to go home
A few weeks ago, I — like many other Thai nationals in Germany — was looking…
