Health officials have put Thailand’s six international airports on “high alert” in response to the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea and the Middle East.
Airports of Thailand and the communicable disease bureau of the Public Health Ministry have agreed increase monitoring visitors from South Korea and the Middle East as well as individuals who have traveled there in the past two weeks.
The alert applies to Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phuket and Hat Yai airports.
Temperature monitoring stations have been placed at these airports to detect the potential possibility of catching MERS imported passengers. Health officials stationed three temperature-sensitive cameras and ordered passengers who show the symptoms of extreme exhaustion, high fever, severe coughing and hyperventilating to take a medical examination at the airport, and those with a high fever will be quarantined, ThaiPBS reported.
Thousands have been quarantined nearly 2,000 schools closed in South Korea, where the epidemic has killed six people so far. South Korea has suffered the worst outbreak of the disease since it first emerged in Saudi Arabia three years ago.
Photo: Suvarnabhumi Airport
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