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Precautionary measures to be taken at Thailand-US military drill

Precautionary measures will be taken at the 39th Cobra Gold joint military exercise between Thailand and the US due to concerns about COVID-19, General Chalermpol Srisawat, chief-of-staff of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, said on February 14.
Precautionary measures to be taken at Thailand-US military drill ảnh 1Cobra Gold joint military exercise between Thailand and the US in 2019 (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Bangkok (VNA) – Precautionarymeasures will be taken at the 39th Cobra Gold joint military exercise betweenThailand and the US due to concerns about COVID-19, General ChalermpolSrisawat, chief-of-staff of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, said on February 14.

The drill is scheduled to take place fromFebruary 25 to March 6 in Phitsanulok, Sukhothai, Rayong and Chon Buriprovinces. Besides Thailand and the US, the main training exercise is joined byfive other nations - Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea andMalaysia.

India and China will be additional participantsin the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) which originallyinvolved Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Fiji, France, Mongolia, Nepal, NewZealand, the Philippines and the UK.

Brunei, Cambodia, Germany, Israel, Laos, Myanmar,Pakistan, Sweden, Switzerland and Vietnam will take part in the CombinedObserver Liaison Team.

Thailand has recorded the 34th COVID-19 case, according to Reuters.

The news agency cited Director-General ofThailand’s Disease Control Department Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai assaying that the new patient is a 35-year-old female medical worker.

Fourteen COVID-19 patients in Thailand haverecovered and returned home. No fatality has been reported so far./.

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