BANGKOK (XINHUA) – A Thai health expert on Saturday warned that COVID-19-infected returnees from Myanmar’s Tachilek township are highly infectious by carrying the COVID-19 G strain.
The infected returnees from Myanmar’s Tachilek township carried the G strain of the coronavirus, which is easily transmitted and causes more severe symptoms than other strains, said Director-General of the Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Public Health Opas Karnkawinpong.
So far, Thailand has tested hundreds returning from Myanmar, 49 of them have tested positive for COVID-19, who are in seven provinces.
These cases include 37 in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, five in Chiang Mai, and three in Bangkok and one each in Phayao, Phichit, Ratchaburi and Sing Buri.
They include nine among the 107 infected people who returned to Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai…
