Delta variant arrives ahead of Phuket’s reopening


Arrivals welcomed: A plane carrying the first foreign tourists receiving a water cannon salute from fire trucks in Phuket, Thailand. — Reuters

PHUKET has reported its first two Covid-19 cases of Delta variant, just one day before the resort island’s planned reopening to vaccinated foreign visitors without quarantine.

In total, five new infections were confirmed on Wednesday in Phuket, with five others reported on Tuesday, according to Kusak Kukiatkul, chief of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office.

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