Thais test positive for Omicron
published : 20 Dec 2021 at 08:41
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
Eight Thais have tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant after returning from the Middle East.
They were part of two tour groups making an annual pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Authorities have urged people not to panic over the imported cases as those infected have been quarantined.
About 30 Thais returning from a pilgrimage arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport on Dec 15.
They were quarantined at a hospitel (hotel-cum-hospital) in Bangkok. Seven were infected with the Omicron variant, and there are six people who are high-risk for having been in close contact with the seven.
Some had already developed symptoms while in Saudi Arabia.
Another group of 137 Thai returnees from a pilgrimage to Mecca arrived in Phuket and were tested for Covid-19 on Dec 13.
Five tested positive for Covid-19 and were quarantined for five days in Phuket.
However, one of the five returnees tested positive for Omicron. The patient is now quarantined and being treated at a Pattani hospital.
Vocabulary
- categorise: to put people or things into groups with the same features - จัดกลุ่ม, จัดประเภท
- conduct: to carry out — - ดำเนิน
- cum: and; as well as, together with, combined with (from Latin) -
- deemed: considered - เห็นว่า ถือว่า
- pilgrimage: a journey that a person makes to a holy place - เดินทางแสวงบุญ
- quarantine (verb): to keep a person or animal that might have a disease separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease - กักบริเวณ จำกัดบริเวณ
- returnee: someone who is "returning" to some place -
- seek: to try to obtain or achieve something - พยายามได้มา
- symptoms (noun): signs that someone has an illness - อาการ
- transit: the act of moving from one place to another - การเดินทางผ่าน
- variant: a thing that is a slightly different form or type of something else - สิ่งที่ผันแปร, สิ่งที่แตกต่างกัน
