FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask gets his temperature taken before receiving free food during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is racing ahead with contact tracing after detecting its first domestic coronavirus infection in over three months, health officials said on Friday, with tests conducted on nearly 200 people with possible exposure to the new case.
Thailand reported its first non-imported case in after over 100 days on Thursday, after a prisoner a day earlier had tested positive for the coronavirus during a mandatory test for new inmates.
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