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1 local transmission among 28 new Covid cases Monday

Officials check temperatures of drivers on Sunday night as they step up health measures in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai. (Mae Sai district office photo)

The government on Monday reported 28 new cases of the novel coronavirus, including six Thais returning from Myanmar’s Tachilek and a health worker who contracted the disease locally from a Covid-19 patient.

The new cases raised the accumulated total in Thailand since the start of the outbreak to 4,237. No new deaths were reported.

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokesman, said six of the new cases were Thais who returned from Tachilek to Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai through an immigration checkpoint on Friday.

Most of them had worked at entertainment places in the Myanmar border township, he added.

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