BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has recorded one new case of coronavirus, bringing the total in the country to 34 since January, a health ministry official said on Saturday.
The new case is a 35-year-old Thai woman, a medical personnel, who got the disease from contact with a patient, Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchia, the director-general of the Department of Disease Control, told a news conference.
Fourteen people have recovered and returned home.
Over 1,500 people in China have died from the virus but Thailand has not recorded a fatality so far.
(Reporting by Orathai Sriring and Panarat Thepgummapat; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
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