Workers returning from S Korea with fevers

published : 4 Mar 2020 at 14:15

ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham

Passengers arriving from China stand in a long queue as they wait to walk through a thermal scanner at Don Mueang Airport late in January. (File photo by Apichart Jinakul)

Of 180 Thai workers who arrived back from South Korea through airports in the past three days, 19 were feverish but tested negative for Covid-19, immigration police said on Wednesday.

Their flights landed at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang and Phuket airports.

Of the 180 Thai arrivals, 19 were found to have a fever and were quarantined for examination. They all later tested negative for coronavirus disease.

The other 161 workers were allowed to go to their homes right away, because they had no fever.

However, all the returnees were asked to stay at home for 14 days, the usual incubation period of the disease, the Immigration Bureau spokesman said.

Vocabulary

fever: an abnormally high body temperature - ไข้
Immigration Bureau: the government agency dealing with people entering and leaving the country and those who want to live there - สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
incubation: helping something grow to its full form; such as keeping eggs warm in an "incubator" until they can hatch into baby chickens (chicks) - ฟักไข่
negative (adj): showing no signs of being infected by a particular virus, bacteria, etc. - ทางลบ
quarantine (noun): a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - การกักบริเวณ, การจำกัดบริเวณ

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