Living in the coastal province of Phetchaburi, 40-year-old office worker Samerpron Sangwasee had received one shot of AstraZeneca before testing positive for Covid-19 two weeks later. Her hometown had a large cluster of cases and she is also overweight, which put her in a high-risk group. She spent two days trying to enrol for home isolation through crmsup.nhso.go.th.
“Initially, I had a sore throat and a fever of 38C. I went to the hospital and the doctor advised me to do a Covid-19 test. However, due to the long queue, I returned home and did a rapid test instead. When the result was negative, I returned to the hospital and had another test done. There were so many Covid-19 patients in the queue, so getting admitted to hospital was difficult,” Samerpron recounted.
“The registration process for home isolation was…
