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A friend of mine goes on cruises regularly and says there is a rule that the cabin door has to been open when staff is in the room.
ha The company would need to be careful with that rule as some gay men might consider it the same rule as in a gay sauna where if the door is open it's considered more of an invitation to enter and join......or maybe more like join and then enter perhaps ! :-)
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This is a pretty common ruling in about any HTL etc worldwide. of course to prevent theft and rumbling through belongings of the temp. inhabitant.
The 2 burmese girls in the place where I now stay that do the cleaning, also adhere strict to it. They mostly take also their time to play the next game on their fones.
But I like NIR here much more-in the past I often saw ads for ´gay cruises´ where you sat kind of locked up with those who subscribed for the time- I now realise that also seems to be a thing of the past
And back to the or. subject: even Thai seems to have some brains sometimes and now realise that most of the cruiseship pax landed in Sihanouk and welcomed without mask by the dear leader since 30 yrs, a mr. HS, will have to transit via BKK to get home. Strict and thorough measures are to be taken!
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Woman let off cruise ship in Cambodia tests positive for coronavirus
Malaysian minister questions precautions taken after passengers left MS Westerdam
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent
Mon 17 Feb 2020 03.26 AEDT Last modified on Mon 17 Feb 2020 08.00 AEDT
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After the Westerdam’s stop in Cambodia, 236 passengers and 747 crew remain onboard. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Concerns have been raised over the possible spread of the new coronavirus among hundreds of passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship in Cambodia on Friday, after one of them was confirmed to have the disease following a second test carried out in Malaysia.
Scores of passengers who left the MS Westerdam, which had been at sea for two weeks after leaving Hong Kong on 1 February, have travelled on to other destinations.
The director general of Malaysia’s health ministry, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said he believed further precautions should have been taken when passengers disembarked.
“Only 20 passengers had their tests done. That was what we were told,” he said. “The fact one case is positive, [means] all other passengers [have] exposure.”
Cambodia was praised by the head of the World Health Organization for receiving the ship, which had been turned away by five other countries despite there being no confirmed cases onboard at the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...or-coronavirus
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Actually no they don't have to transit via BKK. It appears that many of them took the nonstop Air Asia flight to KL.
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The latest from today’s Bangkok Post:
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Japanese and S'pore arrivals screened
published : 18 Feb 2020 at 05:01
newspaper section: News
writer: Apinya Wipatayotin
Health authorities have extended coronavirus screening to cover visitors from Japan and Singapore while denying entry to passengers and crew of the MS Westerdam, now berthed in Cambodia.
"We have expanded our intensive screening to travellers from Japan and Singapore. The screening method will be the same one used on passengers from Wuhan," Dr Sukhum Kanchanapimai, Public Health Ministry permanent secretary, told a news conference on Monday. Intensive screening was already in place for arrivals from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...ivals-screened
And a recent report from the BBC News correspondent in Beijing:
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Coronavirus: China and the virus that threatens everything
By John Sudworth BBC News, Beijing
Link to BBC website: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-...5?xtor=ES-211-
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...bit like chicken little....darting around clucking that the sky is gonna fall down...lol
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Was Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen, wrong to allow the MS Westerdam to dock at Sihanoukville?
See the following report in The New York Times dated, February 17th, 2020:
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Cambodia’s Coronavirus Complacency May Exact a Global Toll
After a cruise ship docked in Cambodia, passengers streamed off the ship, maskless, and fears are rising that the country could become a vector of transmission
By Hannah Beech
Feb. 17, 2020
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia — When Cambodia’s prime minister greeted passengers on a cruise ship amid a coronavirus scare on Valentine’s Day, embraces were the order of the day. Protective masks were not . . .
For full report see: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/w...gtype=Homepage
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Three stories from today’s Bangkok Post:
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Two Japan virus-ship passengers die
published : 20 Feb 2020 at 10:27
writer: Reuters
TOKYO: Two elderly passengers from the coronavirus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died, public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday, as a second group of passengers began disembarking after two-weeks quarantined onboard.
More than 620 of the passengers on the Diamond Princess liner have been infected on the ship, which has been quarantined since Feb 3, initially with about 3,700 people on board.
NHK, citing a government source, said the passengers were both Japanese, a man and woman in their 80s . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18...passengers-die
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Israel ban irks Thailand
Ministry suspends worker scheme
published : 20 Feb 2020 at 04:01
newspaper section: News
writer: Kornchanok Raksaseri & Penchan Charoensuthipan
Thailand has called on Israel to review its decision to ban Thais from entering the country in a bid to control the spread of deadly coronavirus (Covid-19).
As a result of the ban, the Labour Ministry will have to postpone sending Thai workers to Israel under the employment cooperation project between the two countries. The situation is being assessed daily . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...-irks-thailand
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Outbreak 'reviving stereotypes'
published : 20 Feb 2020 at 04:39
newspaper section: News
writer: Thana Boonlert
The discrimination faced by Thais abroad during the novel coronavirus outbreak shows how growing public anxiety can revive long-standing tensions and negative stereotypes about Chinese, an expert said.
Wasana Wongsurawat, a historian at Chulalongkorn University, said the discrimination experienced by the victims has roots in the mistaken belief that they come from China . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...ng-stereotypes
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Three more reports from today’s Bangkok Post:
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Two Australian evacuees from Japan ship have coronavirus
published : 21 Feb 2020 at 09:46
writer: AFP
SYDNEY: Two Australians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said on Friday, raising questions about Japan's policy of allowing evacuees to return home after testing negative.
"We have two people who are positive for the Covid-19 virus. Those two people have mild illness," said Dianne Stephens, acting chief health officer for the Northern Territory . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18...virus#cxrecs_s
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Hubei province reports 411 new coronavirus cases
published : 21 Feb 2020 at 07:08
writer: Reuters
BEIJING: China's central Hubei province had 411 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Thursday, the province's health commission said on Friday, up from 349 cases a day earlier.
The uptick in cases reversed three days of declines, although the number was still the lowest since Jan 26. It brings the total accumulated number of confirmed cases in Hubei to 62,442 . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18...cases#cxrecs_s
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THAI cancels flights due to virus
published : 20 Feb 2020 at 21:07
writer: Post Reporters
Thai Airways International will cancel some flights to eight countries this and next months as the coronavirus outbreak has crippled air travel.
The flight adjustments this month and most of March cover destinations in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Bangladesh and the United Arabs Emirates . . .
For the full report see: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business...virus#cxrecs_s