Chonburi is now at eight days in a row with no new confirmed Covid-19 cases - Pattaya News

Chonburi is now at eight days in a row with no new confirmed Covid-19 cases

Friday, 29 January 2021, 6:44

Chonburi-

The Chonburi Department of Public Health this morning (January 29th) announced zero new confirmed cases of the Covid-19 Coronavirus for the eighth day in a row in the province. Chonburi now has a total of 648 cases of Covid-19 with one death.

In the past eleven days only one case of Covid-19 has been discovered in Chonburi and all of their contacts have been reportedly traced and tested negative.

This person was a migrant worker who visited the Chonburi Provincial Employment Office.

Full testing was done on both the camp where the person lives and the office and two full rounds of testing have shown all contacts of the person as negative for Covid-19.

The Chonburi Provincial Employment Office reopened yesterday for the public.

Discussion on potentially easing more restrictions and measures around Covid-19 is expected as early as today (But there are no guarantees or promises).

Massage shops and tattoo artists were allowed to reopen two days ago by the Chonburi governor. Additionally, the Ministry of Education announced school reopening for next Monday, February 1st, including in Chonburi. A large meeting with the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration is due later today that will be officially discussing easing more restrictions around Covid-19.

Keep in mind, there is no promise of easing of business closures or other measures as health officials continue to stress caution. However, a draft proposal shown two days ago by the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration shows Chonburi proposed to become a regulated orange zone instead of a "deep red" highly controlled zone which would in theory stop strict travel restrictions requiring formal permission to enter and leave the province. We will have a full update following the meeting.

Chonburi has also ordered the closure of hotels and tourist attractions effective yesterday in a "symbolic administrative closure" that allows staff and hotels to collect social security and financial aid for the roughly month period of time that travel restrictions have been in place, bringing domestic travel to zero. It's important to note venues can opt out of this by informing district officials if they choose and the closure has nothing to do with more cases of Covid-19, etc. Hotels had been asking for this closure for weeks.