BANGKOK, July 14 (TNA) – Thailand has reported no
locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases for 50 days, while seven new imported cases were
reported on Tuesday.
Spokesman of the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Center (CCSA)
Dr. Taweesilp Wissanuyotin said one of the seven new cases was a Thai citizen
returning from the US and the rest were from Egypt.
They had all been placed under quarantine at government-sponsored
centre. These new cases had brought the number of coronavirus cases in state
quarantine facilities to 290, the spokesman said.
The COVID-19 patients in Thailand accumulated to 3,227 with
78 active cases in hospitals, Dr. Taweesilp said.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry has informed all foreign
embassies about diplomatic protocols regarding exemption from mandatory
quarantine for foreign diplomats and their families.
The notice was issued after a 43-year-old Egyptian soldier
and a daughter of a Sudanese diplomat were tested positive for COVID-19 and
have potentially spread the virus in Thailand.
The soldier, while in transit in Rayong province, visited
shopping malls and other places in violations of the conditions for Thailand
entry. The nine-year-old Sudanese girl
was exempted from the quarantine and has stayed at a condominium in central
Bangkok.
Medical teams were sent to the condominium building and the
shopping malls to provide virus testing to residents and mall-goers.
According to the CCSA, about 2,000 people were in the
shopping malls at the same time as the infected soldiers who also appeared in
CCTV images without face masks. But nine
staffers have been identified as high-risk.
At the hotel where the crew from an Egyptian military
airplane stayed, there are also nine workers being quarantined because they
were in close contact with the coronavirus-infected soldier. (TNA)
