Thailand Reports First COVID-19 Fatality in 97 Days

A quarantine officer screens passengers at the arrival hall of Suvarnabhumi Airport on March 4, 2020.
A quarantine officer screens passengers at the arrival hall of Suvarnabhumi Airport on March 4, 2020.

BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Thailand, which had only witnessed one local COVID-19 transmission in 100 days reported on Friday the first fatality in 97 days.

A staff from Thailand’s Ministry of Labour, who was found infected with COVID-19 after returning from Saudi Arabia, succumbed to death on Friday afternoon.

The ministry staff was the first fatality in Thailand in 97 days.

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The ministry has confirmed that Mat Mamin, 54, who had served as an interpreter in Riyadh and was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a Bangkok hospital, died on Friday in the hospital.

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Mat returned to Thailand on Sept. 2. He was the 59th death from COVID-19 in Thailand.

The last fatality in the country was reported on June 2. The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand increased to 3,497.