The government on Thursday reported 18 new cases of novel coronavirus infection, another nurse infected locally in Bangkok and 17 quarantined arrivals, raising the total to 4,169.

The new locally transmitted Covid-19 infection was a nurse at BNH Hospital. This raised the number of infected nurses in Bangkok to six.

Health officials had tested 851 people close to them, and all 745 results so far were negative.

Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokesman Thaweesilp Visanuyothin said the first of the six was infected after failing to wear her protective gear properly while handling arrivals at an alternative state quarantine facility. She later transmitted the disease to the other nurses during meals.


Seventeen more infected people have arrived from Switzerland, Sweden, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Nepal, Kenya, Libya, Italy, Russia and the United States.

Of the total 4,169 cases in the country, 3,888 (93.26%) recovered including eight discharged over the past 24 hours and 221 were at hospitals. The death toll remained unchanged at 60.