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SUBMIT PICTURE: Doctors and ICU nurses using individual protection devices (PPE) perform a CT scan for a COVID-19 client at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Apr 23,2020 (REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha)
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BANGKOK: Thai health authorities on Friday (Sep 11) verified another coronavirus infection had actually been identified in the nation, in an Uzbek professional football gamer, 8 days after the infection resurfaced following a more than three-month absence.
The man was favorable after a compulsory pre-match test on Tuesday, regardless of having actually finished quarantine on Aug 27 after three prior negative tests, health authorities informed a news conference.
Yong Poovorawan, a virology specialist from Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, said the virus incubation duration in the male would have been longer than 14 days and it was unlikely to have been domestically transmitted.
” I believe he was infected abroad,” Yong stated.
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By sealing the nation to all however returning Thai nationals and approved immigrants, and needing all arrivals to quarantine, Thailand has kept coronavirus cases to simply 3,461, the huge bulk of which have actually recuperated. The nation has actually reported 58 deaths.
It had been more than 100 days without a domestic infection until a mystical case appeared in Bangkok last week, with no travel history or recognized direct exposure to the virus.
There were 43 other people possibly exposed to the Uzbek soccer player however all had tested unfavorable for the virus and were undergoing quarantine, stated Sophon Iamsirithaworn, director of Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, adding 27 more people would be evaluated.
https://covid19globalcases.com/thailand-discovers-2nd-covid-19-infection-after-long-absence/
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