Monday: 5 new Covid imports
published : 5 Oct 2020 at 12:54
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Thailand on Monday recorded five new cases of the novel coronavirus, one of them a Thai national.
The new cases recently arrived in the kingdom from India, Bahrain, Malaysia and Japan.
The Centre for Covid Situation Administration said the only Thai patient was a woman who arrived from Japan on Sept 30 and tested positive on Sunday.
The four other cases involved foreigners.
Two of them were Indian nationals who arrived in Thailand on Sept 25 and Sept 30. The two men tested positive on Saturday. Both were asymptomatic.
A man from Bahrain was found to be Covid-positive on Saturday after arriving in the country on Sept 27. He was asymptomatic.
A Portuguese man who flew into the kingdom from Malaysia was found to be infected with the virus on Saturday. He was an air crew member on a flight from Portugal to India and then Malaysia before landing in Thailand on Sept 30.
Vocabulary
- 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
- crew members (noun): the people who work on a ship, aircraft, television programme, etc. - กลุ่มคนที่ทำงานร่วมกัน, ลูกเรือ
- national: a citizen of a particular country - ประชาชน
- patient: someone who is receiving medical treatment - คนป่วย, คนไข้
- test positive: to show in a medical test that a particular virus, bacteria, disease or drug is present in the body - ตรวจพบว่าติดเชื้อ
