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| A worker wearing a face mask make a delivery in Bangkok on Thursday. (Photo by=Apichart Jinakul) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] Seventeen new cases of Covid-19 infection were reported on Thursday, all returnees from the Middle East and mostly asymptomatic.
"The two-digit figure is very high, but is from the daily arrival of returnees, which is expanding to 400-500 and "All of them were found to be infected during their second test, which was about a week after their first test, Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said.
He said 13 of the new cases returned from Kuwait. Twelve were men aged 31-56, and the other a 44-year-old woman. Two other new cases returned from Qatar - a 24-year-old man and woman aged 29.
The man was asymptomatic but both patients also came up positive for the disease on their second test.The two other new cases returned from Saudi Arabia, men aged 28 and 29. They tested positive for Covid-19 in their second examination, and showed no symptoms.
"Thais were infected in other countries but they have the right to return home," he said. Over the past month, most returnees were workers and students.The total number of Covid-19 cases had risen to 3,101 and the death toll remained at 58.
