Tourists sit in a cafe at Khaosan Road, one of the favourite tourist spots, as Thailand detects its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a US citizen who had travelled to the country from Spain late last month. - Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand has detected its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a US citizen who had travelled to the country from Spain late last month, a health official said on Monday (Dec 6),
The confirmed case in the man, who had arrived on Nov 29, makes Thailand the 47th country to have found the new variant, Opas Karnkawinpong, Director-General of the Department of Disease Control, told a news conference.
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