Thailand has issued a new warning after 13 new coronavirus cases were traced to a group of friends who shared drinks and cigarettes at a party.
The health ministry’s secretary, Dr. Sukhum Kanchanapimai, said that the spike of cases was caused by the partygoers who contracted the infection while on a night out in Bangkok.
“There was inappropriate behaviour, sharing drinks, cigarettes and not avoiding social activities after returning from an at-risk country,” he said, adding: “Don’t share cigarettes and drinks.”
According to Thai PBS World, the group met numerous times to socialize in Bangkok.
Dr. Sukhum Kanchanapimai said to reporters that the friends had been smoking the same cigarette in an airconditioned room and drinking from the same glass.
One of them had been in contact with tourists from Hong Kong.
Thailand raised its coronavirus count by 5 cases, with a total of 75. Three of the cases are linked to a patient who came back from South Korea and went out with family and friends, including the three.
Eight others linked to that case were being monitored by officials.
35 people have recovered in Thailand and one person has passed away due to coronavirus.
One internet user commented: “It’s not so much fit and healthy people contracting a disease with mild symptoms, it’s when these unspeakable people then give the disease to people who are not fit and healthy, but unfit and vulnerable.”
Another wrote: “13 people don’t share “a cigarette” I think the more familiar name is “joint” or “spliff”!.”
A third said: “how big was this cigarette for it to be shared by 13 people?”
Police previously raided a house in Thailand’s Saraburi province after reports of workers throwing used face mask masks in washing machines before ironing them and selling them again.
One of the workers revealed that the used face masks were obtained from an unidentified dealer and that a face mask would sell for one Thai Baht ($0.05). The group could recycle 300 to 400 masks per day.
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