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Tests for Covid-19 infections conducted in Chiang Mai

Migrant workers at two communities in Muang district, Chiang Mai, wait to be tested for Covid-19 by a medical team on Monday. (Photo: Panumet Tanraksa)

CHIANG MAI: Medical teams are conducting tests on people deemed at risk in the province for Covid-19 after a woman in Ayutthaya, who had worked as a beautician in Mae Ai district, tested positive for the virus.

Dr Kittiphan Chalom, assistant to the chief of the provincial public health office, said the Ayutthaya woman, 30, worked at a beauty shop in tambon Mae Ai from August – December. While in the district, she had not travelled out of Mae Ai.

The woman returned to Ayutthaya by bus on Dec 16. She tested positive for Covid-19 on Dec 19 without showing symptoms and was admitted to Bang Pa-in Hospital for treatment.

While in Mae Ai, she had close contact…

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