WATCH: Thai 'Super Spreader'

THAI 'SUPER SPREADER'

Thailand reports 1,543 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total to 37,453, with 97 deaths. While that is much better than most other countries, Thailand’s cases in the first three months of this year were triple what the country had all of last year and its daily numbers are rising fast. The new outbreak has spread among mostly young, affluent and mobile Thais, and some of the newly infected had the more contagious variant first identified in the UK. The fast spread of Covid has been traced to infectious nightspots where minimum health protocols such as social distancing are widely ignored. Thailand only recently began easing strict border controls that for the past year have kept out most travelers, especially all-important tourists whose spending supports millions of jobs. The restrictions have included mandatory testing and 14-day quarantines for almost all arrivals.

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