CORONAVIRUS | Thailand confirmed six new cases of the new coronavirus today, four of them Thai nationals and two Chinese.

The four Thai people included a couple who had visited Japan and two drivers who had picked up Chinese passengers in Thailand, the health ministry said.

The new cases brought the total reported in the country to 25. 

Thailand has seen its first case of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus inside the country on Jan 31. 

The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control. — Reuters