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T15 0-133 Sentence denotes The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has to date infected over 60 million people worldwide, causing more than 1.43 million deaths [1].
T16 134-302 Sentence denotes The latest COVID-19 statistics for the Kingdom of Thailand as of November 25, 2020, were 3942 confirmed cases and 60 deaths in a total population of 66.6 million [2,3].
T17 303-481 Sentence denotes These numbers translate to 56.25 cases and 0.86 deaths per million inhabitants, respectively, both being puzzlingly low among countries with reliable statistical information [4].
T18 482-621 Sentence denotes The whole of the Mekong River basin and other Southeast (SE) Asian (SEA) neighbors seems to share Thailand’s low infection and death rates.
T19 622-750 Sentence denotes Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and China’s Yunnan province all report similarly minimal infection rates (Table 1, Figures 1, 2) [4,5].
T20 751-863 Sentence denotes Many attribute this low incidence to Thai social and cultural practices promoting an inherent social distancing.
T21 864-964 Sentence denotes When greeting one another, Thais do not shake hands or hug, but use the “wai”, a prayer-like motion.
T22 965-1112 Sentence denotes An outdoor lifestyle combined with mask wearing practices due to pre-existing environmental pollution was already in place before the pandemic [5].
T23 1113-1440 Sentence denotes Thailand’s efficient, robust, and responsive grassroots-level universal health care system, directed by able scientists, has greatly impacted preventive and treatment measures [6] even with a rising prevalence of pre-existing comorbidities like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in the whole of the Mekong river region [7,8].
T24 1441-1589 Sentence denotes Others might argue that Thailand’s low testing frequency (19 tests per 1000 people) might underestimate the magnitude of the COVID-19 situation [3].
T25 1590-1820 Sentence denotes Here, we need to bear in mind that while all returning residents are tested and quarantined, community testing only occurs when tracing contacts or for symptomatic cases seeking treatment (virtually non-existent in the community).
T26 1821-1975 Sentence denotes Another way of looking at the extent of testing relative to the scale of the outbreak is to ask: how many tests does a country do to find 1 COVID-19 case?
T27 1976-2164 Sentence denotes The WHO has suggested around 10–30 tests per confirmed case as a general benchmark of adequate testing, and the Thai average as of November 5, 2020 was 649.7 tests per 1 positive case [9].
T28 2165-2245 Sentence denotes With her porous land border crossings, Thailand allows for population movements.
T29 2246-2324 Sentence denotes Furthermore, COVID-19 infection rates have increased in its western neighbors.
T30 2325-2401 Sentence denotes Yet Thailand has not seen any increase in the number of local COVID19 cases.
T31 2402-2549 Sentence denotes After several months without local infections, single-digit indigenous re-emergences have died out spontaneously both in Thailand and Vietnam [10].
T32 2550-2648 Sentence denotes Elusive locally-shared, genetic determinants may provide an explanation to the above observations.