Chonburi –
The Chonburi Department of Public Health announced 90 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 today, May 30th , with one new death mostly driven by clusters at factories and migrant worker camps.
This makes a total of 4,607 cases of Covid-19 in the current round of infections, with 974 still in medical care, and with a total of 25 recorded deaths in Chonburi since the start of this recent round of infections in early April. One additional death was announced this morning although details were not released.
Additionally, 3,608 people in total have now been released from medical care and fully recovered since this current wave began. 44 people were released yesterday.
The district-level new cases were as follows today:
Mueang Chonburi with 21, Si Racha 32, Banglamung (including Pattaya) 6, Phanat Nikhom 2, Sattahip 6, Pan Thong 23, and Ko Chan with 1.
The details on today’s cases given were:
- Cluster at markets in Si Racha 23 cases
- A cluster at the Celeres company factory in Mueang Chonburi with 8 cases (second check of all staff previously negative who were quarantined)
- Contact from Okumura metal factory, 16 cases (second check of all staff who were previously negative)
- Contacts from previous confirmed cases:
- In families, 12 cases
- In workplaces, 8 cases
- Close contact under investigation, 11 cases
- Being investigated, 12 cases
In the last day, a total of 45 close contacts were tested from contact tracing, and 338 people were tested in proactive testing when medical staff goes out into the community. All are pending results. As stated in the case details officials also retested hundreds of people at industrial estates in Mueang Chonburi that have been the sites of recent clusters.
Public health officials continue to urge people to not socialize outside of their direct household until the situation improves. Most cases have come from small social gatherings according to authorities.Chonburi has significantly stepped up testing at industrial estates and their worker dormitories as well as workplaces in the province, which is a major reason cases have been higher recently.
The good news is today there were no timelines whatsoever, which shows that nearly all of the current cases are mostly migrant workers who live and work on industrial estates and markets with little to no social movement outside of work and their home. Staff at these venues, regardless if having tested negative for Covid-19, remain in sealed quarantine for at least fourteen days out of an abundance of caution.
