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First local case of BQ.1 Covid variant found in foreign man from China

Medical Sciences Department director-general Supakit Sirilak speaks about Omicron's highly transmissible and immune-evasive descendants at a meeting on Monday. (Photo: Medical Sciences Department)

The first case of domestic infection with the highly-transmissible, immunity-evasive BQ.1 Omicron variant of Covid-19 is a 40-year-old foreign man who arrived from China, according to the Medical Sciences Department chief.

It was unclear whether the patient was a Chinese national, how long he had been in Thailand, and how it was determined the virus had been transmitted domestically.

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