Three foreigners test positive for Covid-19

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Three foreigners test positive for Covid-19

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported three new cases in state quarantine over 24 hours on Monday.

 

Two Ethiopians – a 28-year-old medical tourist and her 38-year-old male companion – who arrived on October 23 tested positive in a Bangkok hospital on Friday.

 

The third case was a 36-year-old government officer from Oman, who had arrived on Friday to look after a medical tourist, tested positive on that very day in a hospital quarantine facility in Bangkok. He had the sniffles.

 

Meanwhile, seven patients have recovered and been discharged.

 

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand has risen to 3,840 (884 in state quarantine), 119 of whom are in hospital and 3,661 have recovered. The death toll remains unchanged at 60.

 

According to Worldometer, as of 10am on Monday, the total number of confirmed cases globally has risen to 50.74 million (up by 472,468). Of them, 35.8 million have recovered, while 13.68 million are active cases ( 92,624 in severe condition) and 1.26 million have died (up by 5,839).

 

Thailand ranks 149th the global list for most Covid-19 cases, which is topped by the US with 10.2 million cases, followed by India at 8.55 million, Brazil 5.66 million, France 1.78 million and Russia 1.74 million.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30397601

 

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[mike787]

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[John Drake]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Two Ethiopians – a 28-year-old medical tourist and her 38-year-old male companion – who arrived on October 23 tested positive in a Bangkok hospital on Friday.

 

The daily double!  The hospitals must be doing handsprings.

[aussiexpat]

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

Two Ethiopians – a 28-year-old medical tourist and her 38-year-old male companion – who arrived on October 23 tested positive in a Bangkok hospital on Friday.

So that's testing positive 14-15 days after arrival, so doesn't that mean they likely caught it in Thailand (I could accept one outlier at 14 days but surely not both of them traveling together were that unique?)

 

[Sheryl]

I would  not assume the test dates in the papers are accurate. I think the cite the date the test result was announced, not date the test was done (there is no routine testing in day 14-15), Also before a positive result is announced there is a second test done. More likely the test was done on day 12 or 13 then repeated when it came back positive.

 

And the prior test would not have been the day before but about a week before. i.e. date of testing positive is not the very first day on which the person has detectable virus just the first test done since virus became detectable.

 

Testing negative on Day 5 and then positive on day 12-13 is perfectly consistent with being infected shortly before departure or en route (e.g. on the flight)