Thursday: 1 new Covid case
published : 25 Jun 2020 at 11:53
writer: Gary Boyle
Thailand on Thursday reported one new coronavirus case detected in a Thai national returning from abroad, taking the country to 31 days without a local transmission.
The new case was a male student, 24, who returned to Thailand from Egypt on June 9, a spokeswoman said.
He was found to have contracted the virus on Tuesday, after his second test, while in state quarantine in Chon Buri. He was asymptomatic, she said.
The novel coronavirus has killed 58 people in Thailand since it was first detected in January, among 3,158 infections, of which 3,038 patients have recovered.
Twelve people were added to the tally of recovered cases in the past 24 hours, leaving 62 hospitalised.
Vocabulary
- asymptomatic (adj): (of a person or illness) having no symptoms, i.e., not signs of a disease or medical condition - ไร้อาการ
- contract : to become infected with a disease - ติดเชื้อ
- detected: noticed, discovered or found out - จับได้ พบได้
- hospitalise: to send somebody to a hospital for treatment - ให้อยู่โรงพยาบาล
- 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
- recovered: became fit and healthy again - ฟื้นฟูร่างกาย
- state: government - รัฐ
- tally: a record or count of a number of items - การบันทึกจำนวน
- Keywords
- coronavirus case
