Tuesday: 10 new Covid cases

A military officer wearing a face mask stands next to a health measure sign on the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters in Bangkok on Monday. (AFP photo)
A military officer wearing a face mask stands next to a health measure sign on the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters in Bangkok on Monday. (AFP photo)

Thailand on Tuesday reported ten new coronavirus cases, including seven Thai nationals, raising the total to 3,600. No new deaths were reported.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said three new cases arrived from  Hong Kong, three from the US, two from Kuwait and two from Russia.

The three arrivals from Hong Kong are Thai. Two of them are men, 31 and 40, who arrived on Sept 23 on the same flight as three previously confirmed cases.


The other arrival from Hong Kong is a woman, 22, who worked at an entertainment place.

The three cases from the US are all 23-year-old Thai women who worked in hotels.

Of the two new cases flying in from Kuwait, one is a 38-year-old male Thai worker who arrived on Sept 22 on the same flight as three previously confirmed cases. The other is a Kuwaiti man, 61, who arrived on Saturday.

The final two cases are Russians who arrived from their homeland on Sept 28 aboard the same flight as a previously confirmed case.

One of them is a 51-year old man, and the other is a woman, 42.

All the new cases were asymptomatic when their infections were confirmed.

Of the 3,600 accumulated cases, 3,390 recovered while 151 patients were in hospitals. The death toll remained unchanged at 59.

Vocabulary

  • accumulate: to get more and more of something over a period of time - เก็บสะสม, สะสม, สั่งสมมานาน
  • 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
  • entertainment: fun; behaviour or activities that are not serious but come from a sense of enjoyment - ความบันเทิง, ความสนุกสนาน
  • homeland (noun): your country; the country you were born in; the country that you come from - บ้านเกิด
  • previously: before -
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