Thai Airways Crew Isolate Themselves After Passengers Tested Positive

Passengers from 2 flights tested positive

Thai Airways Crew From German Flights Isolate Themselves After Passengers Tested Positive For COVID-19

Image adapted from: Thaiairways

On 25th March 2020, Thai Studenten-Verein in Deutschland (TSVD) announced on Facebook that passengers on Thai Airways flight TG 923 from Frankfurt to Bangkok on 14th and 17th March tested positive for COVID-19.

However, there have been no reports regarding the total number of infected passengers.

Thai Airways Crew From German Flights Isolate Themselves After Passengers Tested Positive For COVID-19

Image credit: Thai Studenten-Verein in Deutschland

According to the page, one of the passengers had been asymptomatic while travelling and only tested positive for the virus in Thailand.

In addition, the flights were running before the requirement of a fit-to-fly certificate for all passengers was put in place on 19th March.

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Public Health alerted Thai Airways

Thailand’s Public Health has also informed Thai Airways about the passengers who had tested positive, reported The Bangkok Insight.

And so, the airline has ordered the crew from both flights to stay at home and monitor themselves for 14 days. A deep cleaning and disinfection of the aircraft will also be conducted.

We hope all the crew members and other passengers on both flights are all right and we wish a speedy recovery for those who are infected.

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