Thirty-two Thai workers in South Korea have tested positive for Covid-19 as health care workers there await test results of 28 more, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tanee Sangrat, director-general of the Department of Information and spokesman for the ministry, on Friday said Korean authorities on Thursday confirmed 32 Thai workers tested positive for the virus, and the Royal Thai Embassy in Seoul has been in contact with the patients and is ready to provide assistance.
The first case was a Thai worker who reportedly had been infected while working at a food company. The worker was said to have visited a restaurant popular among Thai migrant workers in Cheonan, a city about 80 kilometres south of the capital Seoul.
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