Many medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and representatives from Thalang Hospital, attended the exercise, to plan what to do if someone with a suspected contagious disease arrived at the airport.
The scenario yesterday was that Phuket International Airport had a report from another airport that there were four people on board a plane with suspected coronavirus, which causes mild to moderate upper-respiratory illness.
All of the “patients” had flu and coughed a lot, and were scattered through the airplane, which had around 200 people on board.
The officers had to devise a way to get them through Immigration individually, and then to get medical help.
Those involved in the exercise said it was a successful result.