Thailand has reported five new coronavirus cases, all quarantined returnees from Egypt, Japan and Sudan, raising the total to 3,255.

No new deaths were reported, leaving the accumulated death toll at 58.

Tuesday marked the 57th consecutive day with no locally transmitted infections.

No additional Covid-19 patients were discharged in the previous 24 hours, leaving the total number recovered at 3,096, with 101 people now hospitalised.

One new case was a male student aged 26 who arrived from Japan on July 7. He had a fever and was sent to a hospital in Samut Prakan province right away. 

Three more of the new cases are male students aged 20, 25, and 28. They arrived on the same flight from Egypt on July 8. Eight others from the same flight were earlier confirmed as Covid-19 cases. The new cases were quarantined in Chon Buri province and tested positive on Sunday while being asymptomatic.

The other new case came from Sudan on Saturday. 

He said 500 Thai people had returned from Sudan and 23 of them had Covid-19, while 780 came from Egypt and 22 of them carried the disease. Four out of 1,983 returnees from Japan tested positive.