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Pitfalls of exceptions for COVID-19 travel quarantine: lessons from a dignitary visit to Thailand

Published:2021-01-28 Issue:2 Volume:28 Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Mungaomklang Anek¹,Atsawawaranunt Kamolthip¹,Kochakarn Theerarat²³,Batty Elizabeth M²⁴⁵,Kaewmalang Prayuth¹,Kongklieng Amornmas¹,Panwijitkul Pukkaporn¹,Joonlasak Khajohn²⁶,Kotanan Namfon²³,Loesbanluechai Duangkamon²³,Pawun Vichan¹,Chantratita Wasun²⁶,Chookajorn Thanat²³⁷

Affiliation:

1. Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Institute for Urban Disease Control and Prevention, Bang Khen, Bangkok 10220, Thailand

2. COVID-19 Network Investigations Alliance (CONI), Mahidol University, Rajthevi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

3. Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine Unit, Center of Excellence in Malaria Research, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Rajthevi, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400,Thailand

4. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Rajthevi, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

5. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, New Richards Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7LG, UK

6. Department of Virology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajthevi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

7. Center for Medical Genomics, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Payathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Abstract

A dignitary from a European country made an official visit to Thailand in November 2020. Due to the nature of this visit, a standard 14-day quarantine was not implemented. After a series of meetings with diplomats and hotel staffers, the dignitary was diagnosed with COVID-19. Here, we detailed the transmission and the genomic investigation from the visit, presenting the factors that need to be considered when a standard quarantine was waivered.

Funder

Ramathibodi Foundation, Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences

National Research Council of Thailand

Better Health Programme and Mahidol University

Wellcome Trust

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taab010/36127907/taab010.pdf

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