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A cleaner wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) sprays disinfectant on seating in Hua Lamphong railway station in Bangkok on May 1, 2021, amid the latest wave of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Thailand. - Reuters
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): Thai police on Friday (April 30) returned a Lao woman who recently entered Thailand illegally in the company of two Thai men and later proved to be infected with Covid-19.
It is believed the woman is one of the superspreaders and should be responsible for triggering the first community outbreak of Covid-19 in Laos and police plan to initiate legal proceedings against her.
The woman was identified as Phavady Viphakone, 26 years old, a resident of Saravan province who travelled to Savannakhet province earlier last month.
VIENTIANE, May 1 (Vientiane Times/ANN): Thai authorities have returned a woman believed to be one of three central figures in the super spreader event that led to the country’s second wave, to Laos.
Lao authorities received Phavady Viphakone at the Friendship Bridge after her recovery from Covid-19 was had been completed at a hospital in Nong Khai, Thailand, according to Lao Post.
Ms. Phavady and two Thai men entered Laos illegally via Savannakhet Province on 6 April, where they met with Case 59 and traveled to Vientiane, leading to a surge in Covid-19 cases across Laos.
Every province in Laos has now gone into lockdown as a result of the second wave of Covid-19.