Tag: children
Over 50 infants and young children infected with Covid in Nonthaburi
AS MANY as 53 children younger than five years of age and among them newborn infants were today (Apr. 12) reported to have contracted Covid-19 in Nonthaburi province, which is just north of Bangkok, TV Channel 7 said this evening. Of today’s nationwide Covid tally of 19,982 cases and 101 deaths, with this being …
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Over 250,000 children jabbed as daily Covid tally rises to 17,349
THE COVID vaccination drive is making headway among 5-11 years old children with 250,715, or 4.9 percent, having got their first shot amid a tally of 17,349 cases and 22 deaths today (April 17), TV Channel 7 said. Of the new batch of patients 17,104 were domestic, 169 fell sick in prisons and detention …
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Phetchabun children told to get the jab and win a prize
IN AN effort to draw children under 12 years of age to get a Covid jab Phetchabun province today (Feb. 10) launched an incentive programme whereby they get a chance of winning one of 19 iPads by entering prize draws, TV Channel 7 said. Mr. Krit Kongmuang, the provincial governor, and Dr. Kamol Kanyaprasit, …
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Party: Increasing number of youths becoming drug dealers, among them 8-year-olds
THE Thai Sang Thai Party said today (Sept. 16) the drug epidemic in the country raises a lot of concern as youths and children have easy access to amphetamines and it is worrisome that many of them have upgraded from drug users to small drug dealers with eight-year-old children among them, Sanook.com said this …
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French father goes on hunger strike for kids ‘abducted’ by Japanese wife
By AFP, published by Channel NewsAsia Tokyo – A Frenchman in Japan who says his children were abducted by their Japanese mother began a hunger strike in Tokyo today (July 10), in a protest he hopes will bring international attention to his fight to be reunited with his family. “I’ve given everything, I’ve lost my …
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Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada
By Reuters Staff, published by Euronews.com Toronto – The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School …
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Doctor transforms into Spider-Man to send 3-year-old Covid patient home
A DOCTOR at Nong Bua Daeng Hospital, Chaiyaphum province, took on the role of superhero Spider-Man in sending a three-year-old boy who has recovered from coronavirus home to help with the mental healing process because hospitalised children become stressed, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (May 7). The doctors and nurses at this hospital believe …
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‘Shoot me instead,’ nun pleads with Myanmar junta’s security forces
By CBS News, published by MSN News Yangon — Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead. The image of the Catholic nun in a simple white habit, her hands …
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