79 new Covid-19 cases Friday

Visitors enter the Thai travel fair, which opened at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, when the country logged 79 new Covid-19 cases. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)
Visitors enter the Thai travel fair, which opened at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, when the country logged 79 new Covid-19 cases. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

The government on Friday reported 79 new Covid-19 cases, 65 local infections and 14 imported, raising the total to 26,241.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said 43 local infections were found in communities and 22 at hospitals in four provinces on Thursday.

Samut Sakhon province, the epicentre of the second Covid-19 wave, logged 50 new cases. Of these, 38 were detected in communities (30 Myanmar people and eight Thais) and 12 at hospitals (seven Myanmar and five Thai).

Pathum Thani saw eight new cases, three at hospitals (two Thai and one Myanmar) and five in communities (three Myanmar and two Thai).

Bangkok recorded six new cases at hospitals (three Thai and three Myanmar) and Chon Buri detected infection in a Chinese man at a hospital.

Of the 14 imported infections, 12 were quarantined arrivals.

Two other two were Thai women, aged 23 and 24, who returned from Myanmar illegally to Tak province on Sunday and Tuesday.

Vocabulary

  • community: the people living in one particular area - ชุมชน
  • detected: noticed, discovered or found out - จับได้ พบได้
  • epicentre (noun): the point on the earth's surface where the effects of an earthquake are felt most strongly; the central point of something - ศูนย์กลาง
  • illegally: in a way that is against the law - อย่างผิดกฎหมาย
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