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Japan ambassador to Thailand ‘likely’ contracted coronavirus during visit to Bangkok club

THAILAND (TR) – On April 3, Japan’s ambassador to Thailand, Kazuya Nashida, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He then began undergoing treatment at a hospital.

“Since the case was found,” Nishida, 60, later wrote in a letter to the chairman of the Centre of Economic Situation Administration, “the Embassy of Japan promptly contacted all those who were suspected to have had close contacts with me after 25th March.”

There was actually a bit more to it: On that night, he visited a nightclub in Bangkok where the companions can get very intimate with the customers.

According to The Nation Thailand (April 10), the venue in question is Krystal Club in Thong Lor. It is one of 24 establishments in the city that are believed to have been the source of 400 coronavirus clusters.

Nishida was accompanied to Krystal Club that night by eight Japanese and Thai nationals as a…

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