Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Thompson, Christopher C.; Shen, Lin; Lee, Linda S.
To the Editor,
The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new global public health problem. It already affects more than 140 countries around the world. Thailand is the second country in the timeline of disease pandemic [1]. The infection occurs since early January 2020 and COVID-19 is still uncontrollable problem. The Thai Ministry of Public Health tried several methods for counteracting the disease outbreak. As a legal control, COVID-19 is included into the national list of infectious disease under surveillance. The laws note that when a medical center detects this disease, an official report to governmental Center of Disease Control has to done within 3 hours. If one violates this legal control, there will be punishment.
Keywords
Infection prevention and control