5 new Covid-19 cases were detected in quarantine from Thais returning home after being in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration. Thailand’s total number of reported cases now at 3,641.
2 people travelling from the United Kingdom tested positive for Covid-19. A 52 year old Thai, who had a fever, arrived in Thailand on October 5 and tested positive for the virus on Saturday. A 2 year old girl, who is unrelated to the older woman and asymptomatic, also arrived to Thailand last week and tested positive on Saturday.
A 20 year old Thai man traveling from Hong Kong tested positive for Covid-19. He arrived in Thailand on September 29 and tested positive on his second test. He was asymptomatic.
A 23 year old Thai student travelling from the United States tested positive for Covid-19. She flew back last Thursday and tested positive upon arrival. She reports loosing her sense of smell.
A 47 year old Thai man travelling from Singapore tested positive for Covid-19 last Friday when he arrived to Thailand.
Daily new Covid-19 cases in Thailand as of October 11, according to Worldometers.
Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.
