A soldier sprays disinfectant on the famous River Kwai bridge in Muang district of Kanchanaburi on Saturday. (Photo by Piyarat Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: A six-year-old girl has become the latest Covid-19 patient in this western border province, the 5th since the new wave of the outbreak began, the provincial Covid-19 response centre announced on Sunday.
Athisan Intra, director of the centre, said the girl’s parents on Jan 4 tested positive for the virus at Maka Rak Hospital after returning from a gambling den in Pin Klao area in Bangkok. The family is from tambon Don Cha-em in Tha Maka district
Fourteen people who had close contact with the couple, the 3rd and 4th infections, were taken for testing.
Thirteen of them were negative, but one — the six-year-old girl, was diagnosed with Covid-19.
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