Govt asks people to stay home

published : 21 Mar 2020 at 11:39

'Ninja', a telemedicine robot developed by a Chulalongkorn University research team, is tested at the university's engineering faculty. The robot will be used by medical personnel to lend to Covid-19 patients by providing real-time information from their bedside. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

The government is campaigning for people to stay at home to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

Government spokesperson Narumon Pinyosinwat said on Friday Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has asked people to refrain from going out.

As for calls by some people for lockdowns, the spokesperson said measures must be prepared well before time, and those people who earn daily incomes must also be considered.

"The prime minister has asked people to stay home. In this period, we would like Thai people to stay at home. Before we make the order, we are now asking for cooperation. After this, the situation will be evaluated if we don't receive cooperation," she said adding that there are options to consider such as what times or how many hours people could be barred from going out.

A group of doctors has said that, using mathematical model calculations, maintaining the current measures would see up to 351,948 Covid-19 patients in Thailand while more than 52,000 would be hospitalised with over 17,000 in intensive care and 7,000 deaths.

However, from a simulation, lockdown measures would reduce the number of patients to 24,269 with 3,640 in hospitals including 1,213 in ICU and 485 deaths.

Vocabulary

bar: to officially not allow someone to do something or go somewhere - ห้าม
consider: to give careful thought to something before making a decision - พิจารณา
cooperation: a situation in which people or organisations work together to achieve a result that will benefit all of them - การร่วมมือกัน
evaluate: to form an opinion about something after thinking about/examining it carefully - ประเมิน
intensive care: the department of a hospital for people who are so ill or badly injured that they need to have special medical care and be watched very closely - ห้องดูแลผู้ป่วยหนักในโรงพยาบาล
lockdown (noun): an official order to control the movement of people or vehicles because of a dangerous situation -
measure: a firm action taken to solve a problem or stop a dangerous unpleasant situation - มาตราการ
model: something such as a system that can be copied by other people - น่าถือเป็นแบบอย่าง, ต้นแบบ
refrain: to stop yourself from doing something - ระงับ เลิก
simulation: a situation in which a particular set of conditions is created artificially in order to study or experience something that could exist in reality - การจำลอง

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