Returnee dies at quarantine hotel
published : 28 Dec 2020 at 09:33
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A Thai woman who recently returned to the country from South Korea fell to her death from her room at a hotel in Bang Kapi on Sunday afternoon.
Police were informed of the death at about 2pm. They said the woman’s room was on the seventh floor of the eight-storey Patra Hotel, which is a Covid quarantine facility, on Soi Rama IX 31. The body landed on the second-floor balcony.
The woman, 51, arrived on a repatriation flight from South Korea at 11.10pm on Thursday and checked in at the hotel at 1.52am on the same night for a 14-day quarantine. Her first test for Covid-19 was negative.
Later the woman was identified only as Surarak. Police found a short note describing tension over many personal problems.
Police were investigating.
Vocabulary
- balcony: a place where you can stand just outside an upper window. It sticks out from the wall of a building - ระเบียง
- facility (noun): a building, equipment, etc., used for a particular purpose - โรงงาน, สถานบริการ, สิ่งก่อสร้าง, สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก
- investigate: to try to find out the facts about something in order to learn the truth about it - ตรวจสอบหาความจริง
- negative (adj): showing no signs of being infected by a particular virus, bacteria, etc. - ทางลบ
- repatriation (noun): sending someone back to a country that is legally their own - การส่งกลับประเทศ
- returnee: someone who is "returning" to some place -
- tension: the feeling of being so nervous or worried that you can’t relax - ความตึงเครียด
