Seven returnees test positive to Covid-19

By The Nation

 

FILE PHOTO: Reuters

 

There are seven confirmed Covid-19 cases in state quarantine without any deaths over a 24-hour period, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Tuesday (July 14), the 50th day without a domestic case since May.

 

The seven infected individuals were Thai nationals, six of whom had returned from Egypt and one from the United States.

 

One of the earlier patients has reportedly fully recovered and returned home.

 

As of Tuesday, the total number of confirmed cases in Thailand stood at 3,227, of which 2,444 had been contracted domestically. So far, 78 patients are still under treatment, 3,091 have recovered and 58 have succumbed to the virus.

 

Globally, the total number of cases stands at 13.2 million, up by 199,000. Of these, 7.6 million have recovered and 575,000 have died so far.

 

In terms of the number of cases, Thailand ranks 100, while the US tops the list followed by Brazil and India.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30391282

 

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I really hope they track down those people that have been in contact with that Egyptian delegation going around and infecting people in Rayong

Is this Thailand’s way of justifying keeping the borders closed by saying returning Thais test positive and lining the pockets to the quarantine hotels ?

SO how EXACTLY  does this  pre  flight test from the origin country work as it doesnt appear  to be working at  all!

3 minutes ago, bodga said:

SO how EXACTLY  does this  pre  flight test from the origin country work as it doesnt appear  to be working at  all!

They don’t get tested for Covid before the flight only a Fit to Fly Cert yet returning foreigners do and still have to go into quarantine !

Please be aware that none of the PCR tests is 100%. As far as I know, none of them is validated and there is no Gold standard.

There are false positives and false negatives.

 

Thus, the higher the number of tests, the more it can happen that someone was tested first negative and then positive, or vice versa, even more so if not the same test was used.

 

 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

The seven infected individuals were Thai nationals, six of whom had returned from Egypt

And they let Egyptian soldiers in?