A 35-year-old salesman died today, becoming the first in Thailand to die from nCoV infection.

Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoen, head of Thailand's Department of Disease Control, said at a press conference in Bangkok today that the nCoV death patient also had dengue.

It is the first to die out of a total of 42 nCoV infections in Thailand since the Covid-19 outbreak in the country in January. 30 people were cured and discharged, while 11 were being treated at the hospital. The Thai tourism industry suffered great losses when many tourists canceled tours due to concerns about the virus spreading.

Thailand's Ministry of Public Health today declared Covid-19 a dangerous infectious disease, giving officials greater authority to take action to prevent the disease.

The Covid-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China in December, and has now appeared in 64 countries and territories. The epidemic has infected nearly 87,000 people, nearly 3,000 died worldwide. South Korea and Italy are the second and third largest outbreaks in the world, after mainland China.

The United States and Australia also recorded the first domestic death from nCoV. The first patient to die in the US because nCoV was a man in his mid-50's with a background condition, while the patient in Australia was a 78-year-old man who was aboard the isolated Diamond Princess yacht off Japan. February.