Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand

A dignitary from a European country made an official visit to Thailand in November 2020. Due to the nature of this visit, a standard 14-day quarantine was not implemented. After a series of meetings with diplomats and hotel staffers, the dignitary was diagnosed with COVID-19. Here, we detailed the t...

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Autores principales: Mungaomklang, Anek, Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip, Kochakarn, Theerarat, Batty, Elizabeth M, Kaewmalang, Prayuth, Kongklieng, Amornmas, Panwijitkul, Pukkaporn, Joonlasak, Khajohn, Kotanan, Namfon, Loesbanluechai, Duangkamon, Pawun, Vichan, Chantratita, Wasun, Chookajorn, Thanat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33506268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab010
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author Mungaomklang, Anek
Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip
Kochakarn, Theerarat
Batty, Elizabeth M
Kaewmalang, Prayuth
Kongklieng, Amornmas
Panwijitkul, Pukkaporn
Joonlasak, Khajohn
Kotanan, Namfon
Loesbanluechai, Duangkamon
Pawun, Vichan
Chantratita, Wasun
Chookajorn, Thanat
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Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip
Kochakarn, Theerarat
Batty, Elizabeth M
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Kongklieng, Amornmas
Panwijitkul, Pukkaporn
Joonlasak, Khajohn
Kotanan, Namfon
Loesbanluechai, Duangkamon
Pawun, Vichan
Chantratita, Wasun
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description A dignitary from a European country made an official visit to Thailand in November 2020. Due to the nature of this visit, a standard 14-day quarantine was not implemented. After a series of meetings with diplomats and hotel staffers, the dignitary was diagnosed with COVID-19. Here, we detailed the transmission and the genomic investigation from the visit, presenting the factors that need to be considered when a standard quarantine was waivered.
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spelling pubmed-79010552021-02-26 Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand Mungaomklang, Anek Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip Kochakarn, Theerarat Batty, Elizabeth M Kaewmalang, Prayuth Kongklieng, Amornmas Panwijitkul, Pukkaporn Joonlasak, Khajohn Kotanan, Namfon Loesbanluechai, Duangkamon Pawun, Vichan Chantratita, Wasun Chookajorn, Thanat J Travel Med Rapid Communication A dignitary from a European country made an official visit to Thailand in November 2020. Due to the nature of this visit, a standard 14-day quarantine was not implemented. After a series of meetings with diplomats and hotel staffers, the dignitary was diagnosed with COVID-19. Here, we detailed the transmission and the genomic investigation from the visit, presenting the factors that need to be considered when a standard quarantine was waivered. Oxford University Press 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7901055/ /pubmed/33506268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab010 Text en © International Society of Travel Medicine 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections. https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
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Mungaomklang, Anek
Atsawawaranunt, Kamolthip
Kochakarn, Theerarat
Batty, Elizabeth M
Kaewmalang, Prayuth
Kongklieng, Amornmas
Panwijitkul, Pukkaporn
Joonlasak, Khajohn
Kotanan, Namfon
Loesbanluechai, Duangkamon
Pawun, Vichan
Chantratita, Wasun
Chookajorn, Thanat
Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title_full Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title_fullStr Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title_short Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand
title_sort pitfalls of exceptions for covid-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to thailand
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33506268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab010
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