Sumanee Wacharasin, hazard communications director of the Department of Disease Control, gives details of the first local infection with the Omicron variant, in a broadcast from Government House on Monday. (Screenshot)
A 49-year-old-Thai woman is the first case of local infection with the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, caught from her infected husband, a pilot who arrived from Nigeria, a senior health official said on Monday.
Sumanee Wacharasin, hazard communications director of the Department of Disease Control, said the woman’s 62-year-old husband, from Colombia, had received two shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the second dose administered in Nigeria on July 1.
He arrived from Nigeria on Nov 26 and tested negative for Covid-19 upon arrival. He stayed at a hotel in Bangkok under the Sandbox…
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