Wednesday: 1 new Covid case, no deaths

People visit a Buddhist amulet market in Bangkok on Tuesday, as more sectors of the economy reopen following restrictions to halt the spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. (AFP)
People visit a Buddhist amulet market in Bangkok on Tuesday, as more sectors of the economy reopen following restrictions to halt the spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. (AFP)

The government reported one new coronavirus case and no new deaths on Wednesday.

The total number of infections in Thailand is now 3,084 and the accumulated death toll is at 58 since the outbreak began in January.

The new case is a 26-year-old Thai man who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, said a spokeswoman for the government's coronavirus task force.

A total of 2,968 patients have recovered, including two over the past 24 hours. 

Meanwhile, 110 Thai nationals, stranded in Japan by the Covid-19 pandemic, returned home on Tuesday on a flight from Tokyo.

In the airport health screening process, seven of them were found to have a fever and sent to a hospital for an examination. The rest were taken by buses for a 14-day state quarantine.


Vocabulary

  • fever: an abnormally high body temperature - ไข้
  • 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
  • spokeswoman/spokesman: a person who speaks on behalf of a group or an organisation - โฆษก
  • state: government - รัฐ
  • stranded: left somewhere with no way of going anywhere else - ปล่อยเกาะ ถูกทิ้งไว้
  • task force: a group of people who are brought together to do a particular job, or a large military group who have a military aim to achieve - คณะทำงานเฉพาะกิจ, กองกำลังเฉพาะกิจ

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