The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control. “(He) …does not have the record of traveling to China, and it is likely that he was infected (by) a sick traveler from China,” Tanarak said. Authorities have conducted virus scans on 13 people, including three family members, who the taxi driver came into contact with. The taxi driver is one of five other coronavirus cases confirmed in Thailand on Friday. There have been at least nine cases of human-to-human transmission in five countries outside China: the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and now Thailand.

Source: National Post January 31, 2020 10:07 UTC