Students from the Wichuthit school attend a computer class after the Thai government eased isolation measures and introduced social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease as schools nationwide reopened in Bangkok, Thailand, July 1, 2020. — Reuters pic
Thailand reported its first non-imported case in after over 100 days yesterday, after a prisoner a day earlier had tested positive for the coronavirus during a mandatory test for new inmates The man, 37, had worked as a nightclub DJ at three different venues in the capital Bangkok during the past two weeks, officials said, before he was jailed for a drugs-related offence.
All of the country’s new cases in the last three months have been found in quarantine in individuals who were returning from overseas.