BANGKOK, 13 January 2020: Thailand’s Department of Disease Control, at the Ministry of Public Health has discharged one of four travellers who were quarantined after they reported having a fever shortly after arriving in the Thai capital from the Chinese city of Wuhan.
According to Department of Disease Control (DDC) director-general, Dr Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai, of the four passengers, a three-year-old Chinese boy quarantined in Bangkok after getting off a flight from Wuhan in China, has been given the all-clear and discharged from hospital. The buy had a fever caused by the A H3N2 influenza, which is not dangerous.
The DDC is still waiting for the test results for the other three travellers, who are Thai nationals. Two are students who have also been quarantined at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi’s Mueang district while the other patient is at a private hospital.
The DDC has also advised all travellers arriving from Wuhan, China within 14 days to seek immediate medical advice and treatment if they are displaying symptoms and warning signs such as fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose and shortness of breath.
