4 Thais repatriated from India found with Covid-19 today (June 12)

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Today the government announced 4 new cases of Covid-19, all were reported as repatriated Thai citizens from India. Dr. Taweesilp spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, says…

“1 of the cases was a 39 year old housemaid, who returned to Thailand on June 4 and was quarantined in Chon Buri province. She showed no symptoms, but tested positive for the disease on Tuesday.”

“3 others arrived back on June 5, of the number 2 were male labourers aged 37 and 53, and the other a masseuse, aged 44. They were quarantined in Chon Buri and tested positive on Wednesday, also while being asymptomatic.”

Dr Taweesilp continues to say that India had the most Covid-19 cases in Asia with a total of 298,283 cases and ranked 4th globally, and rising. So far 2,445 Thai people had returned from India as part of the government’s repatriation program.

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As of today, the total number of confirmed cases in the country has been 3,129, with 84 patients still under treatment. 2,987 have made a full recovery and been officially discharged from hospital (no change), there have been a total of 58 deaths (no change).

Of the 192 Covid-19 patients found in state quarantine:

  • 90 cases, (46.9%) were found in the first two days after entering state quarantine
  • 38 cases (19.8%) were found on day 3-4
  • 35 cases (18.2%) were found on days 5-6
  • 11 cases (5.7%) were found on days 7-8
  • 2 cases (1%) were found on days 9-10
  • 11 cases (5.7 %) were found on days 11-12
  • 5 cases (2.6%) were found on days 13-14

“It has been 18 days that the country has not logged a locally infected patient. However, people must not be reckless. Although we do not have a local infection, there are about 100,000 newly confirmed cases globally per day.”

SOURCE: Bangkok Post | Nation Thailand

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