A public health worker screens Chinese tourists from Shanghai who arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport in October.
The outbreak appeared in Samut Sakhon province, southwest of Bangkok, where four infections were reported at a shrimp market on Friday – the first a 67-year-old woman. A total of 535 new cases reported on Saturday, bringing Thailand’s total number to more than 4,800 with 60 deaths. “While there is a likelihood of finding more infections in crowded foreign communities around the shrimp market, they are low-risk groups because they are of working age and healthy,” Opas said.Local cases have previously largely been found in people observing quarantine after having been in close contact with an infected person. Most of Thailand’s recent cases have been imported.