Five new cases of Covid-19 in state quarantine

There were five cases of Covid-19 over a 24-hour period, the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Saturday (July 4), the 40th day without a domestic case. The new patients were returnees in state quarantine, the CCSA said.

The government reported five new imported coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Tuesday, the 29th consecutive day with no confirmed local transmissions of Covid-19 and taking the total number of infections in Thailand to 3,156 with 58 deaths since January.

All five new cases were quarantined returnees from the Middle East.

Dr. Panprapa Yongtrakul, the assistant spokesperson for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said two new cases returned from Egypt on June 9 and were quarantined in Chon Buri province. They at first tested negative but were found to have the disease in their second test on Saturday, 11 days after their return.

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