Signs prohibiting entry to the Royal Hotel, currently used as an alternative state quarantine (ASQ) hotel for people returning to the country from abroad in an attempt to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, are seen displayed at the entrance of the building in Bangkok on Sept 28, 2020. (AFP photo)

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Thailand on Monday recorded five new cases of the novel coronavirus, one of them a Thai national.

The new cases recently arrived in the kingdom from India, Bahrain, Malaysia and Japan.

The Centre for Covid Situation Administration said the only Thai patient was a woman who arrived from Japan on Sept 30 and tested positive on Sunday.

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The four other cases involved foreigners.

Two of them were Indian nationals who arrived in Thailand on Sept 25 and Sept 30. The two men tested positive on Saturday. Both were asymptomatic.

A man from Bahrain was found to be Covid-positive on Saturday after arriving in the country on Sept 27. He was asymptomatic.

A Portuguese man who flew into the kingdom from Malaysia was found to be infected with the virus on Saturday. He was an air crew member on a charter flight from Portugal to India and then Malaysia before landing in Thailand on Sept 30.

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