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Tachilek news spurs Covid-19 testing rush

People arrive at Phichit Hospital in Phichit province for Covid-19 tests on Thursday. (Photo: Sitthipoj Kebui)

PHICHIT: Hundreds of people who visited two entertainment places in this northern province rushed to a hospital to seek Covid-19 tests after learning an infected returnee went to the places during the same period.

Since Wednesday evening, about 500 visitors to Bird Bar and Crocodile Rock Pub in Muang district have flocked to the hospital for the tests. They had been to both places during Nov 28-30, the period when a Phichit native who had sneaked back from Tachileik border town of Myanmar with Covid-19 had been.

The rush followed an announcement of the Covid-19 case in Phichit on Wednesday.

Staff of Phichit Hospital were mobilised to conduct the tests and collect information from the at-risk…

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