06 Sep, 2020
Thailand has confirmed six new cases of the novel coronavirus imported from Singapore and the United Kingdom.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said on Sunday five Thai returnees and one French man had tested positive, although all were asymptomatic.
The new infections took the total tally of infections in the country to 3,444, while no new fatalities were reported.
Two Thai nationals, a 46-year-old housemaid and a woman aged 83, were found infected during quarantine on Friday after returning from the United States on Monday.
Three Thai men, aged 43, 53 and 56, tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving from Singapore on Friday.
The only new foreign patient was a 46-year-old Frenchman who arrived in Thailand on Tuesday from the United Kingdom. He tested positive on Friday while in quarantine at a private facility in Bangkok.
He was a language teacher at a private school in the country.
