Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tested positive for coronavirus and received treatment at the hospital last month, but has since recovered, a source close to the exiled billionaire told the AFP.
The 71-year-old man lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and spent two weeks in the hospital before being in mid-September, they said.
“It is true that he was angry several weeks ago, but now he has recovered. He joked that it was fashionable,” a source within Pheu Thai, a Thaksin-linked political party, told the AFP that it asked not to be identified.
It is believed to have the virus after visiting a food yard.
Thaksin was forcibly expelled in a military coup in 2006 and fled the country in 2008.
He was convicted in Thailand of corruption.
His sister Yingluck became prime minister in 2011 before being indicted in a coup 3 years later.
Revelations of Thaksin’s contact with the coronavirus coincided with the news of the bomb that US President Donald Trump and the first Melania tested positive.
Trump won an experimental remedy at the hospital and was expelled from the electoral crusade just a month before Election Day.
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