COVID-19: Thailand scrambles to contact trace after visiting Egyptian officer tests positive

Thailand is investigating several locations in Rayong province, after a 43-year-old Egyptian military officer tested positive for COVID-19. A group of foreigners, including the officer, reportedly left their quarantine facility and went to public places. This could end the country’s streak of 49 days without a local transmission. According to the government's COVID-19 taskforce, the man was part of a group of 31 men from the Egyptian military that spent three nights in Rayong. Since it was a military delegation, they were exempt from the mandatory 14 days of quarantine.