Krabi’s Lam Thap Station police on Tuesday afternoon arrested Somyos Khongsiri, 45, near his fathers pig farm in Thung Sai Thong subdistrict after being alerted that he shot at a window of an alternative state quarantine hotel to spring his wife and son loose from detention earlier that day before fleeing to the farm.

Wealthy returnees are being given the choice of a luxury upgrade for their mandatory quarantine, the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) revealed on Thursday (May 21).