Six Covid-19 cases in Chai Nat province, including 5-year-old

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Six Covid-19 cases in Chai Nat province, including 5-year-old

By THE NATION

 

 

A five-year-old is among six new Covid-19 cases in Chai Nat province.

 

Chai Nat Governor Somboon Sirivej told a press conference on Thursday afternoon that the province now had six confirmed cases of Covid-19 after the first case was reported on December 20.

 

The source of the infections is suspected to be a 35-year-old seafood vendor who had earlier visited Samut Sakhon province, a hotspot of recent mass infections.

 

“The second and third patients are a mother and son from Muang district who had visited the same clinic where the first patient had received testing,” he said.

 

“The 41-year-old mother had reportedly brought her five-year-old for asthma treatment to the clinic.”

 

The fourth and fifth patients are a married couple aged 34 and 31 from Han Kha district. They had earlier visited Thalay Thai Market in Samut Sakhon and been tested on December 22 at Chai Nat Narenthorn following a Ministry of Public Health recommendation for people who had visited the hotspot.

 

"The sixth patient is a 47-year-old woman who is a stepmother of the fifth patient. They live in the same house,” said Somboon.

 

Somboon added that five other persons who had been in close contact with the patients had been tested and placed in isolation while awaiting the results. He also ordered the Huay Ngu subdistrict in Han Khan district, where three of the patients lived, to be a controlled area and public health officers must stay on high alert for possible new cases.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30400207

 

 

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[bluesofa]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

“The second and third patients are a mother and son from Muang district who had visited the same clinic where the first patient had received testing,” he said.

That's a frightening admission.

[NanLaew]

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

That's a frightening admission.

Admission? Like a confession? It's almost like you are disappointed (again) in the Thai administration's candor in all things Covid related?

 

Since globally hospitals are a veritable Petri dish of disease and sickness, local clinic's cant be far behind.

[ThailandRyan]

Were these numbers included in today's 81 count?

[NanLaew]

13 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Were these numbers included in today's 81 count?

 

AFAIK, the numbers in the daily colored number tabulation issued by the  CCSA don't include the cases that are popping up all over the shop but are being openly reported and documented by the DPH elsewhere. I recall early on there was a comment that these numbers, once confirmed, would be added retrospectively? I haven't been obsessed enough to check if they're doing that.

Edited December 25, 2020 by NanLaew

[shackleton]

The Provincial Governor here in Chai Nat province was one of the first to introduce lockdown procedures the last time and there was no Corivirus cases

Just waiting now to see what happens