Five asymptomatic cases found in state quarantine
Five new cases of Covid-19 were reported over a 24-hour period, the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Sunday.
It has been 90 days without domestic cases since May.
All the new cases are asymptomatic. They included a 41-year-old woman who returned from India on August 8 and was found positive on her third test and a 45-year-old woman who had returned from UK on August 10, who was positive on her second test. Three patients -- two women aged 26 and 29 and a man, 53, had returned from Oman on August 17. They tested positive on the first day of the quarantine period.
Meanwhile, one patient was discharged after full recovery.
As of August 23, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stood at 3,395 (458 in state quarantine) -- 117 are under treatment, 3,221 have recovered and been discharged, and there have been 58 deaths.
Globally, the total number of confirmed cases rose to 23.3 million, up by 269,000 on Saturday; 15.9 million have recovered while deaths stood at 808,000. Thailand ranks 117th for most cases in the world. The US has the highest number (5.8 million), followed by Brazil (3.58 million) and India ( 3 million).
