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‘Bar K’ source of variant super-spreader event

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, chief of the Department of Disease Control, is at a press conference at the Public Health Ministry in Nonthaburi province on Wednesday. (Photo: Public Health Ministry)

A bar & restaurant in Kalasin province is considered the source from where the Covid-19 Omicron variant spread to infect 248 people, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).

These infected people are now spread across 12 provinces in the Northeast and the North, it said.

A married Thai couple visited the Kalasin eatery on Dec 12 after they returned from Belgium. They tested negative of Covid-19 on Dec 10 but later tested positive for Omicron.

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, chief of the DDC, said a disease investigative team found the couple visited three bars in the province, which the DDC called Bar Q, Bar S and…

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