Thailand’s 1st case of ‘Indian variant’ found in pregnant woman back from Pakistan

Thailand on Monday confirmed that it had the first case of a “double mutant” variety of COVID-19 first identified in India. 

Among 1,630 new COVID-19 infections announced today by Thai health officials was a pregnant Thai woman who had returned from Pakistan and was found infected with one of three twice-mutated varieties that are highly contagious and may be resistant to existing vaccines, according to Apisamai Srirangsan of the COVID-19 task force.

The woman, who is 25 weeks pregnant, arrived in Thailand on April 24 with her three sons. All had entered state quarantine when the mother and her 4-year-old son tested positive for COVID-19 a few days later. 

Yesterday, the Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Center of the Thai Red Cross conducted a test and confirmed that the mother’s variant was one of three that has further mutated from a variant identified…