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 </picture>Reporters surveying the scene on Phuket’s Pa Tong Beach this week were able to count a few, mainly from Europe and Russia, South Korea and Japan, sunbathing, swimming and tossing around frisbees.

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 </picture>There are also Chinese tourists still to be found on Phuket as well, many booking cruises around the Andaman Sea.

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Despite brave holdouts, virus gutting island tourism

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus, now deemed an international public health emergency by the World Health Organisation, has resulted in dozens of high-season flights to Thai southern beach resorts cancelled.