BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand on Friday said it has detected its first locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus variant discovered in India, as it announced the formal rollout of its national vaccination plan next month.
The Ministry of Public Health said 36 cases of the Indian variant were found in a camp for construction workers in Bangkok. Of those, 21 are Thai, 10 are from Myanmar and five from Cambodia, said Dr. Supakit Sirilak, chief of the Medical Sciences Department.
The government has banned the arrival of any non-Thais from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal in an effort to prevent the spread of the variant.
Thailand reported 3,481 new coronavirus cases and 32 more deaths on Friday. Its total number of confirmed cases has now grown to 123,066 since the outbreak started, including 94,203 reported since a surge broke out at the beginning of…
