Thailand had the world's first coronavirus case outside China. Here's how it avoided disaster
By South-East Asia correspondent Amy Bainbridge and Supattra Vimonsuknopparat Thailand is emerging as another success story in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is all the more remarkable considering the country was the first outside of China to detect a case of COVID-19 back in January. At the time, there was intense speculation the virus could ravage […]
Rajesh Kumar · 22 Jun 2020 · 1 min read
By South-East Asia correspondent Amy Bainbridge and Supattra Vimonsuknopparat
Thailand is emerging as another success story in the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is all the more remarkable considering the country was the first outside of China to detect a case of COVID-19 back in January.
At the time, there was intense speculation the virus could ravage South-East Asia.
But Thailand — along with Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam — have all had low case numbers despite sharing porous borders with China and being densely populated.
Tanarak Plipat, who is the deputy-director general of the Department of Disease Control and has been at the forefront of Thailand’s response to the coronavirus, says the country was considered high risk because of travel from China.
“Put it this way, we know that there were a lot of travellers from China — especially from Hubei Province and at the beginning of the epidemic,” Dr Plipat told the ABC.
“They thought we were the highest-risk country because of how many tourists from Hubei province travel to Thailand.”
Thailand had the world’s first coronavirus case outside China. Here’s how it avoided disaster
Want this applied to your business?
Related
ChatGPT Ads Earned $0.89 a Visit vs $2.45 for Google Search
A new working paper finds US ChatGPT ad visits brought in far less revenue than paid Google search visits. The gap suggests today's CPCs may be too high, though the data has real limits.
Meta Delays Business Terms After Publisher AI Scraping Backlash
Meta has pushed enforcement of its new business terms from October 30th to November 20th after publishers worried the terms could let it scrape news sites for AI training. The delay is a pause, not a resolution, and site owners should use it to review their own crawler controls.
Pennsylvania's AI Ad Label Law: What Marketers Must Do Now
Pennsylvania has signed a law requiring labels on ads significantly modified or generated by AI, in any format and regardless of where the ad was made. The wording leaves real gray areas, so marketers need a plan rather than a guess.