Samui Airport terminal, where three foreign visitors infected with the Omicron variant landed last week. (Bangkok Post file photo)
SURAT THANI: Two British nationals and one Belgian who recently arrived on Koh Samui were found to be infected with the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, the provincial health office said on Monday.
They were the first Omicron cases detected in the island province.
The first patient was a British woman, 54, who arrived at Samui airport about 1.30pm on Wednesday on Bangkok Airways flight PG5125 from the United Kingdom via Singapore and Suvarnabhumi airport.
She travelled with her husband, but he tested negative.
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