"All the 13 Wild Boars [the name of the football team] will be released from a hospital on Thursday, July 19… We should prepare them and their families well for the public and media attention which they will face following the discharge," the minister stated
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All the 12 schoolboys and their coach, who have been trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for over two weeks, were evacuated by rescuers from the Tham Luang cave on July 8-10 as a result of a unique international search and rescue operation.
All the rescued individuals are currently kept in medical quarantine in a hospital in the Thai city of Chiang Rai. The medical tests on the boys and their coach have not found traces of any infections endangering their lives and health.