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Covid tests for 800 in Nakhon Phanom

A disease control worker sprays disinfectant at a branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in That Phanom district of Nakhon Phanom on Thursday. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai)

NAKHON PHANOM: Disease control workers have taken samples for testing from more than 800 people in That Phanom district who had contact with a local food vendor found to be infected with Covid-19.

Nakhon Phanom governor Kraisorn Kongchalad ordered Covid-19 tests on 829 people. 

The 51-year-old food vendor lives in Ban Nong Kud Khaen village in tambon Phra Klang Thung. She tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and was believed to have been infected  by a relative working in Bangkok who returned home for a visit on Dec 28. Her factory-worker husband was later found to be also infected.

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