BANGKOK (Reuters): Thai officials played down the possibility of a 'super spreading' of the coronavirus on Thursday (March 12) as they reported that a group of friends were responsible for the biggest daily rise in the country's cases since the outbreak began.
The new patients are a group of friends who appeared to pass the virus to each other after one of their number was first infected by a tourist who has since returned to Hong Kong, officials said.
The male and female friends, all Thai nationals aged in their 20s and 30s, socialised and shared drinks and cigarettes on two occasions in late February. "The first patient was infected by a tourist from a dangerous communicable disease area," Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Disease Control Department, told reporters.Officials stressed the foreign source of the group infection and announced that they were stepping up travel restrictions for visitors from a list of"designated dangerous communicable disease areas" announced last week.
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