Posted on 01/31/2020 6:43:42 PM PST by 11th_VA
BANGKOK: Thailand has seen its first case of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus inside the country, a health official said on Friday (Jan 31), as it raised its total number of cases to 19, the second-highest after China.
The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control.
"(He) ...does not have the record of travelling to China, and it is likely that he was infected (by) a sick traveller from China," Tanarak said.
Authorities have conducted virus scans on 13 people, including three family members, who the taxi driver came into contact with. They said that initially none of them had tested positive for the virus.
"The overall risk of infection in Thailand is still low, but people should take precautions to protect themselves," Tanarak said.
Thailand's previous cases have all been either Chinese tourists or Thais who had visited China, where the virus originated.
The taxi driver is one of five other coronavirus cases confirmed in Thailand on Friday. The other four patients are Chinese nationals.
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No, but I’ve pinged to stories about it.
Sure sounds engineered to me.
It has.
That would be my question.
That, and, how are they going to track down all his passengers who he might have infected?
It already has.
I suspect the lack of new cases there has more to do with lack of testing than anything else. Especially if it’s spreading mainly in the lower castes for now.
I’d add restaurant workers and other food-service jobs, along with hotel staff.
this is why everyone from the future is always wearing silver unitards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFNOiCOLJ0&feature=youtu.be
Above is a video of just that - lack of testing equipment.
So sad and tragic.
“So he has scans of his lungs that show the ‘glass”. But they wouldn’t test him ; so they send us to the next one.”
Yeah, grocery and pharmacy clerks.
why is this picture familiar?
Buck Rogers
I thought so but I wasn’t sure. Thanks!
Thanks. One of the articles implied that four insertion sites were too many to have occurred by chance (mutation) alone.
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