Works site on Rama IX added to list of clustersThe Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has identified a fresh cluster off infections at another construction site, this time on Rama IX Road in Bangkok, after 347 tests there came back positive over the past fortnight. CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said on Monday the One 9 Five condominium construction site on Soi 5 had been classified as a medium-sized cluster after health officials spent the last two weeks conducting tests on the 528 workers living on the site. "It is a new cluster which the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration [BMA] is investigating," he said. Meanwhile, the head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University, Dr Yong Poovorawan posted on his Facebook account that Covid-19 patients can contract the coronavirus again after three to six months. According to a study in Italy, he said vaccinations are necessary to confer protection even after someone has had the virus.

Source: Bangkok Post June 07, 2021 23:03 UTC