Friday: 4 new Covid cases, all returnees from India
published : 12 Jun 2020 at 13:48
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
The government on Friday reported four new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), all returnees from India.
Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said one case was a 39-year-old housemaid. She returned on June 4 and was quarantined. She showed no symptoms, but tested positive for the disease on Tuesday.
Three others arrived back on June 5. Two were male labourers aged 37 and 53, and the other a masseuse, aged 44.
They tested positive on Wednesday, also while being asymptomatic.
Dr Taweesilp said that India had the most Covid-19 cases in Asia (298,283) and ranked fourth globally, and 2,445 Thai people had returned from there.
"The infection rate among returnees from India is 5.21%, which is high," he said.
The total number of Covid19 cases rose to 3,121, of whom 2,987 (95%) had recovered. Eighty-four patients remained at hospitals. The death toll was still capped at 58.
"It has been 18 days that the country has not logged a locally infected patient. However, people must not be reckless. Although we do not have local infection, there are about 100,000 newly confirmed cases globally per day," Dr Taweesilp said.
Vocabulary
- asymptomatic (adj): (of a person or illness) having no symptoms, i.e., not signs of a disease or medical condition - ไร้อาการ
- housemaid (noun): a female servant in a large house who cleans the rooms, etc. and often lives there - คนใช้ผู้หญิง
- labourer: a person whose job involves hard physical work that is not skilled, especially work that is done outdoors - กรรมกร, ผู้ใช้แรงงาน
- masseuse: a woman whose job is to give people massages - หมอนวดที่เป็นหญิง
- positive (adj): showing clear evidence that a particular substance or medical condition is present มีประจุบวก (การทดสอบ) - มีประจุบวก (การทดสอบ)
- quarantine (verb): to keep a person or animal that might have a disease separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - กักบริเวณ จำกัดบริเวณ
- rank: to put someone or something into a position according to their success, importance, size etc - จัดลำดับ
- reckless: not thinking about the possible bad effects of your actions - สะเพร่า
- spokesman: a person who speaks on behalf of a group or an organization - โฆษก
- symptoms (noun): signs that someone has an illness - อาการ
