A HOTEL in Thailand is attempting to cash-in on the addictive powers of nicotine, offering its rooms to smokers forced into COVID-induced isolation at an inflated rate.
The Siam Mandarina Hotel located at Bankgok's Suvarnabhumi Airport has an "Alternative State Quarantine" offer, with a 15-night stay in a Deluxe Room now priced at 42,000 Thai Baht (A$1,895) in a non-smoking room.
However if you need to puff away while in lockdown the price increases to 52,000 baht (A$2,350) - presumably to cover the extensive cleaning that will be required after two weeks of concerted ciggie consumption.
Just in case, the hotel also has a relationship with the nearby Chularat 9 Airport Hospital.
SCOTTISH authorities may have some difficulty investigating one of the country's latest outbreaks of COVID-19, because the epicentre appears to be a contact tracing centre.
The National Health Service Test and Trace call centre in North Lanarkshire has been identified as the source of a "local outbreak" with all staff working at the site ordered to undergo testing within the next 24 hours.
If a high rate of infection is identified officials may decide to close the facility as part of measures to mitigate risk - which could put a spanner in the works in terms of contacting the close contacts of those who work in the contact centre.
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