Wednesday: 7 new Covid cases

Disease control officials wave good-bye to returnees as they leave Suvarnabhumi airport, heading for quarantine, on Sunday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
Disease control officials wave good-bye to returnees as they leave Suvarnabhumi airport, heading for quarantine, on Sunday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

The government on Wednesday reported seven new cases of coronavirus disease, six quarantined returnees from the Middle East and one from the US, raising total to 3,328.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said one was a Thai masseuse aged 34 who arrived from the United Arab Emirates on July 29 and was quarantined in Chon Buri province.

Her infection was detected by her first test on Sunday, but she was asymptomatic. She was on the same flight as two previously confirmed cases.

Five other new cases were returnees from Egypt. One of them is a female Thai student aged 21 and the rest are male Thai students aged 22, 23, 26 and 30.

They arrived from Cairo on July 30 on the same flight as a previously confirmed case and were quarantined in Chon Buri. They tested positive in their first test on Monday without any symptoms, and were admitted at a hospital in Chon Buri.

The other new case is an American woman, a teacher aged 26, who arrived on July 31 and was sent to an alternative state quarantine facility in Bangkok. She tested positive on Monday, while showing no symptoms, and was admitted at a hospital in Bangkok.

So far 1,360 people had arrived from Egypt and 11.51% of them were infected, Dr Panprapa said.

Of the 1,508 people who arrived from the UAE, the infection rate was 7.16%; from the US, 4,739 people had arrived and the infection rate was 8.95%.

Of 3,328 total cases, 3,144 had recovered and 126 others were at hospitals. The death toll remained unchanged at 58 since June 2.

Vocabulary

  • alternative: another choice - ทางเลือก, ตัวเลือก
  • asymptomatic (adj): (of a person or illness) having no symptoms, i.e., not signs of a disease or medical condition - ไร้อาการ
  • case: a particular situation or a situation of a particular type - กรณี, เหตุการณ์, สถานการณ์
  • confirm (verb): to state or show that something is definitely true or correct, especially by providing evidence - ยืนยัน
  • masseuse: a woman whose job is to give people massages - หมอนวดที่เป็นหญิง
  • test positive: to show in a medical test that a particular virus, bacteria, disease is present in the body - ตรวจพบว่าติดเชื้อ

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