BANGKOK, June 23 (TNA) – Thailand confirmed five more cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients who returned from Egypt and Qatar earlier this month.
Announcing the new cases, Dr Panprapa Yongtrakul, assistant spokesperson of the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration, said that two infected returnees arrived in Thailand on June 9 and were brought to state quarantine facilities in Chon Buri province.
They tested negative in the first test on June 13 but positive in the second round on June 20. They did not show a symptom. One of them is a 31-year-old male student who returned from Cairo and the other was a 22-year-old maid.
Three new cases returned from Qatar on June 16 and were quarantined in Chon Buri. They tested positive for COVID-19 on June 21 while being asymptomatic.
One of them is a 31-year-old woman, another is a man aged 22 who was a masseur at a spa and the other is a 52-year-old man who was a crane driver.
The accumulated number of COVID-19 cases in the country stood at 3,156, 3,023 of whom recovered and 75 remained at hospitals. The death toll was unchanged at 58. (TNA)
