Three more travellers from thailand test positive in japan

[spoon]

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Director-general Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai said on Friday that there all told, five people travelling from Thailand to Japan had been found infected with the coronavirus. Two of them had been reported earlier — a 24-year-old Thai man and a 47-year-old Japanese man.

The three other cases were more recent — a 64-year-old Japanese man, a 21-year-old Thai male student and a 44-year-old Thai man.

The 64-year-old was Covid-19 patient No.730 in Japan. The general manager of a company in Bang Na district of Bangkok, he was living alone at a condominium in the Sukhumvit area. He had earlier travelled abroad in January. 

On Aug 17, he went to stay at a hotel in the Sukhumvit area and then left for Japan on Aug 20. A saliva test on his arrival at Haneda airport was positive for Covid-19.

The 21-year-old student was patient No.770 in Japan. He lived in Khlong Sam Wa district of Bangkok and went to Japan to continue his studies. He tested negative at Ramathibodi Hospital on Aug 27 before flying to Japan. He arrived in Japan on Aug 29 and a saliva test there was positive. 

The third case, the 44-year-old Thai man, was patient No.790 in Japan. He lived in Suwannaphum district of Roi Et province and went to Japan every three months to buy auto parts.

He flew to Japan on Sept 1 and a saliva test on arrival was positive for Covid-19, Dr Suwannachai said. He tested negative on Aug 28 or 29 before leaving for Japan with a friend.

[vinapu]

World's third economy  could avoid those 790 cases ( cases , not even deaths ) if they closed country completely like during  shogunate pre -Meji  times.

I wonder how many people died in Japan in 2020   because they choked on their own vomit but I bet much more than 790.

Slowly , and not for first  time in  history,  tragedy of Covid is turning into panic in media-induced farce

[GWMinUS]

I feel the bigger question is whether the Covid Tests are at all accurate. How can you test negative and one-day later test positive?? The Saliva Test is especially suspect. But it is now being used at many Colleges and Schools in the USA.

[spoon]

The more accurate test is swab test aka pcr lab test. But that requires time to get the result, and not cheap. Rapid test kit have a lower accuracy but cheap and fast, thus being used more widely.