Bangkok (VNA) - The first Thai persontesting positive for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Thailand, a taxidriver, has been cured completely and discharged from hospital.
The 50-year-old man, who carried Chinese tourists, is one of the nine cases of2019-nCoV that have been cured in Thailand.
Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said at a press conference inNonthaburi on February 5 that the remainingpatients are recovering and are likely to be declared cured in the near future.
All relatives and people who had been in contact with the taxi driver werenot infected, he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha said that six of 138Thai people brought back from China’s Wuhan city on February 4, had a highfever.
On February 5 morning the number of persons with high temperatures dropped tofour, and they were treated at Queen Sirikit Hospital in Sattahip district,Chon Buri.
Initial examinations did not detect thecoronavirus in any of the returnees. Their 14-day quarantine period will end atmidnight of February 18, he said.
With 25 patients, including nine who have recovered and discharged fromhospitals, Thailand is the country with the highest number of 2019-nCoVinfections outside China./.
VNA