Thailand reported four new cases of COVID-19 on Monday; one of those new cases was a migrant worker who had returned home from Taiwan.
A Thai spokesperson said that the man had flown from Taiwan to Thailand on July 21. He then tested positive five days later on July 25, while in quarantine.
A spokesperson for Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center, Chuang Jen-hsiang, says that authorities are not ruling out the possibility that the man was infected in Taiwan. If that’s the case, it would be the first local infection in Taiwan in more than a hundred days.
Chuang says that the man in question arrived in Taiwan as a migrant worker on January 17, 2018. He did not leave Taiwan until his return to Thailand last week. Chuang says that the CECC has assembled a list of eight contacts -- all of them Thai co-workers of the infected man. The CECC has already placed those contacts in isolation and has begun testing them.
Chuang says that Taiwan officials are also asking their Thai counterparts for more information about when the infected man fell sick.