Workers returning from S Korea with fevers

Passengers arriving from China stand in a long queue as they wait to walk through a thermal scanner at Don Mueang Airport late in January. (File photo by Apichart Jinakul)

Of 180 Thai workers who arrived back from South Korea through airports in the past three days, 19 were feverish but tested negative for Covid-19, immigration police said on Wednesday.

Their flights landed at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang and Phuket airports.

Of the 180 Thai arrivals, 19 were found to have a fever and were quarantined for examination. They all later tested negative for coronavirus disease.

The other 161 workers were allowed to go to their homes right away, because they had no fever.

However, all the returnees were asked to stay at home for 14 days, the usual incubation period of the disease, the Immigration Bureau spokesman said.