BANGKOK, Feb 24 (TNA) – The Education Ministry
allows teachers and students who are at risk of contracting the novel
coronavirus (Covid-19) after returning from virus-hit countries and territories
to self-isolate for 14 days.
Prasert Boonruang, permanent secretary for education said teachers,
educational personnel and students, who return from China, South Korea, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Malaysia and Vietnam are urged for self-isolation
at home for symptom monitoring if medical screening shows they are at risk of
contracting the virus.
He noted that their two-week absence will not be
counted as leave under the new regulation in response to the spread of the
Covid-19 in several countries.
Heads of educational institutes can assign them to work
during self-isolation on a case-by-case basis, he added. (TNA)
