COVID-19 returns to Thailand in 100 days

Updated On: 04 September, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | Agencies

Thailand has sustained relatively light health damage from the pandemic, even though in January it was the first country outside China to confirm a case.

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Health officials in Thailand say a prison inmate has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the country-s first confirmed locally transmitted case in 100 days.

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On Thursday, they said the inmate is a 37-year-old man who was arrested for drug abuse on August 26 and tested positive on Wednesday when brought to the health centre of a prison in Bangkok. A day earlier, the prime minister had congratulated the nation for having achieved 100 days without any confirmed local cases. Thailand has sustained relatively light health damage from the pandemic, even though in January it was the first country outside China to confirm a case. The country-s last locally transmitted case was confirmed on May 24 and announced on May 25.

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