5 Bangkok nurses positive for Covid-19, health officials say infections are “contained”

5 nurses in Bangkok have tested positive for Covid-19, but health officials assure the public that the infections are “contained.” A 25 year old nurse initially caught the virus while working at an alternative quarantine, or ASQ, facility and is believed to have transmitted the virus to her colleagues after work while out to eat, according to the Disease Control Department.

The nurse worked at the ASQ facility from November 24 to 27. She started experiencing symptoms of a runny nose and excessive phlegm on November 29, according director general of communicable diseases Sophon Iamsirithaworn.

Health officials suspect the nurse contracted the disease when she when taking the temperatures of a family who checked in to the facility and later tested positive for Covid-19.

“Measuring body temperatures requires being in close contact, thus risking infection.”

So far, 280 people considered to be “at risk” of infection and 745 hospital staff have tested negative, Sophon says.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post