Rapid Antigen Tests Required for Restaurants in Chonburi

[Kenny]

Last night I went for a drink with friends in the Jomtien Complex.
Like them, I had tested negative on an antigen test.
As the bar staff had also tested negative I felt comfortable that I was in a covid safe environment.

I received a message from a friend who worked in a nearby bar. He was self-isolating after testing positive.
I hadn't seen him for a few days but it was good of him to contact me just in case.
He had lost his senses of taste and smell and surmised that he had the Delta variant.
This morning he contacted me again. His condition had deteriorated, fever and chronic fatigue, and he was being taken to hospital.

I went on an errand by Motorbike taxi up Thepprasit Road. We were overtaken by two police trucks carrying about 15 people each, all Thai as far as I could tell.
As they flew past with sirens wailing I asked the mototaxi driver what they were going to jail for?

"Covid" was the unsurprising reply, the consequence of testing positive was two weeks quarantine at the government's pleasure.

Things are getting a little bit serious...