Thursday: 20 new Covid-19 cases

A worker disinfects the ropes of the ring at Rajadamnern boxing stadium in Pomprap Satrupai district, Bangkok. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
A worker disinfects the ropes of the ring at Rajadamnern boxing stadium in Pomprap Satrupai district, Bangkok. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

Another 20 Covid-19 cases were reported on Thursday, quarantined arrivals from 10 countries, raising the total to 4,281.

The Disease Control Department said the new cases were from India (6), the United Kingdom and Switzerland (3 each) and Sweden (2), and one each from France, Germany, Kuwait, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

The infected arrivals from India were five Thai men, aged 33-42, and an Indian man, 42.

From the UK, a British man, 60, British girl, 17, and a Thai woman, 36.

The three cases from Switzerland are a Dutchman, 75, and two Thai women, 50 and 73.

The two cases from Sweden are Thai women, aged 20 and 37.

The case from the UAE is a Thai woman, 49, and from the US a Thai woman aged 54.

The patient coming from France is a Thai man, 45, and from Germany, a German man, 79.

The patient from Pakistan is a Pakistani man, 30, and from Kuwait a Thai man, aged 31.

Of the 4,281 total infections, 3,989 (93%) had recovered, including 12 discharged over the past 24 hours, and 232 were in hospitals, the CCSA said.

Vocabulary

  • arrival: when someone reaches where they are going (arrives) - ขาเข้า การเข้ามา
  • case: a particular situation or a situation of a particular type - กรณี, เหตุการณ์, สถานการณ์
  • discharge: to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a court of law - ได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกจาก
  • quarantine (verb): to keep a person or animal that might have a disease separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - กักบริเวณ จำกัดบริเวณ
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