Rayong, Bangkok People Tested Negative for COVID

BANGKOK, July 18 (TNA) - Tests for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have covered 5,206 people in Rayong province and 364 people in Bangkok and all of them tested negative. Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said that tested were the people who were at the same places and times with an Egyptian soldier and a Sudanese girl in Rayong and Bangkok. The foreigners were confirmed COVID-19 cases. On July 14 1,336 people were tested in Rayong and 267 people were tested in Bangkok. All of them tested negative for the disease. On July 15, 1,252 people were tested in Rayong and all of them did not have COVID-19. On July 16, 1,244 people in Rayong and 97 people in Bangkok were tested and they were also free of the disease. On July 17, 1,374 more people were tested in Rayong. Results were already known for 104 of them and everyone tested negative. (TNA)