Returnee dies at quarantine hotel

Disease control workers and police inspect the fatal plunge scene at The Patra Hotel in Bang Kapi district, Bangkok, on Sunday. (Photo supplied)
Disease control workers and police inspect the fatal plunge scene at The Patra Hotel in Bang Kapi district, Bangkok, on Sunday. (Photo supplied)

A Thai woman who recently returned to the country from South Korea fell to her death from her room at a hotel in Bang Kapi on Sunday afternoon.

Police were informed of the death at about 2pm. They said the woman’s room was on the seventh floor of the eight-storey Patra Hotel, which is a Covid quarantine facility, on Soi Rama IX 31. The body landed on the second-floor balcony.

The woman, 51, arrived on a repatriation flight from South Korea at 11.10pm on Thursday and checked in at the hotel at 1.52am on the same night for a 14-day quarantine. Her first test for Covid-19 was negative.

Later the woman was identified only as Surarak. Police found a short note describing tension over many personal problems.

Police were investigating.

Vocabulary

  • balcony: a place where you can stand just outside an upper window. It sticks out from the wall of a building - ระเบียง
  • facility (noun): a building, equipment, etc., used for a particular purpose - โรงงาน, สถานบริการ, สิ่งก่อสร้าง, สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก
  • investigate: to try to find out the facts about something in order to learn the truth about it - ตรวจสอบหาความจริง
  • negative (adj): showing no signs of being infected by a particular virus, bacteria, etc. - ทางลบ
  • repatriation (noun): sending someone back to a country that is legally their own - การส่งกลับประเทศ
  • returnee: someone who is "returning" to some place -
  • tension: the feeling of being so nervous or worried that you can’t relax - ความตึงเครียด
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