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Hundreds tested for Covid-19 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: Community testing for Covid-19 was continuing at locked down villages on Thursday after a local food vendor was found to have been infected by visitors from Bangkok over the New Year.

Disease control workers have taken samples for testing from more than 800 people in That Phanom district who had contact with the 51-year-old food vendor, who lives in Ban Nong Kud Khaen village in tambon Phra Klang Thung.

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Thursday that two men, aged 53 and 54, living in Nong Chok district of Bangkok paid a New Year…

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