BANGKOK: Thailand reported on Friday the first domestic group of Coronavirus infection from the Omicron variant in the province of Kalasin in northeast Thailand, officials said.
“From the Kalasin cluster, there are 21 new infections,” said Taskforce spokesman Covid-19 State Apisamai Srirangsan.
Infection comes from a partner traveling from Belgium through the test & scheme of go countries that abolish quarantine for vaccinated arrivals, he said.
Both of them have tested negative for infections before traveling and after arriving in Thailand in early December.
“On December 15, they began to have symptoms and were tested positively and then confirmed to have an Omicron variant,” he said.
The announcement came when the capital of Thailand Bangkok canceled the new year-sponsored activity of the government, including midnight prayers of fireworks and countdown events held by the mall will still advance and will need evidence of vaccination testing and antigens.
The Ministry of Health also previously said it would introduce the fourth dose of booster for medical personnel.
So far, Thailand has 205 infections from Omicron variants, mostly in foreign arrivals.
Of that number, 25 people were infected with Omicron from those who came from the ship.
Another cluster was being investigated in the south of the country, Supakit Supakit Sirilak said separate news direction.
The state reported the first local transmission from the variant on Monday and then returned quarantine for foreign arrivals, ending the neglect of vaccinated tourists.
The Sandbox program requires travelers to stay on the Phuket resort island for seven days to stay in place.
We must follow the steps of protection carefully and slow down the outbreak as much as possible, Supakit said.
Thailand has reported a total of 2.2 million confirmed infections and 21,528 deaths.
About 62% of around 72 million people who live in this country have received two doses of vaccination.