About 4,600 Thais returned in past month
published : 7 May 2020 at 00:04
writer: Gary Boyle
About 4,600 Thai people returned to Thailand over the past month and more are waiting in other countries, according to the government.
Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Wednesday that 4,637 Thai people returned from 27 countries between April 4 and May 5.
On Wednesday, 59 Thais were due to return from Myanmar, 110 from Germany and 122 from Pakistan. On Thursday, 150 more would arrive from South Korea and South Africa, he said.
He said that the Thai consulate-general in Malaysia was taking care of 29,491 Thais stranded there.
Dr Taweesilp also said that from April 3 to May 5 state quarantine facilities held 12,847 people. Of them, 8,026 remained quarantined, 85 tested positive for Covid-19 and the rest were discharged.
From Wednesday to Sunday 1,481 more people would return from the United States, European countries, South Africa, and Middle Eastern and Asian countries.
Security officials would be working closely with health officials to ensure that the returnees are carefully checked and quarantined.
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Vocabulary
- Consulate-General (noun): consulate general the residence, office, or jurisdiction of a consul general (a high-ranking consul, stationed at a place of commercial importance) สถานกงสุล -
- discharge: to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a court of law - ได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกจาก
- positive (adj): showing clear evidence that a particular substance or medical condition is present มีประจุบวก (การทดสอบ) - มีประจุบวก (การทดสอบ)
- quarantine (noun): a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - การกักบริเวณ, การจำกัดบริเวณ
- state: government - รัฐ
- stranded: stuck in a place from which there is no way of leaving -
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