Thailand broke its 100-day streak without any case of Covid-19 transmission on Thursday, while the country reported its first case of Covid-19 network transmission since last May, after largely eliminating the virus during the summer.
The virus was detected in a Bangkok criminal inmate who was recently incarcerated and had no history of traveling abroad.
The country’s last network transmission case was shown on May 24 and was announced on May 25, the country has noticed cases of foreign travelers.
The patient is unlikely to transmit the virus to other inmates due to prison quarantine rules, but Bloomberg reported that the patient had stayed with several other members of the family circle and had worked as a DJ before his arrest.
After first implementing strict blocking measures at the start of the pandemic, the country had lifted the maximum of its restrictions, with the exception of a ban on the maximum number of foreign tourists, and officials did not promptly announce plans for additional blockade measures in the middle. of the new deal.
Thailand’s case occurs after New Zealand and Vietnam have also recently noticed new cases of coronavirus transmitted after more than a hundred days without new cases.
“We remain indefinitely in 0 cases, but once we have detected the case, we will act temporarily to involve the spread,” Said Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, Director General of the Department of Disease Control at Thailand’s Ministry of Health. There’s no desire to panic. We just have to stick to the rules of social estinement. “
3,427 This is the total number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Thailand on Thursday at Johns Hopkins University.
Thailand experienced the first case of Covid-19 outside china’s pandemic, while a Wuhan tourist was positive on January 13. Although the country’s initial strict blockade measures slowed the spread of the virus until Thursday’s new case appeared, Thailand was badly affected. . the effects of the pandemic on its tourism industry, especially since the country remains largely closed to foreign visitors. Originally, Thailand intended to begin gradually reopening its borders to foreign tourists from October; it is not known whether the new case and any possible new network will be extended to those plans.
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