Thais tested for 'Indian strain' 69 Officials to give result 'within 24-48 hours' published : 1 May 2021 at 04:00 69 A volunteer uses an oximeter to check the oxygen level of a man amidst the spread of coronavirus disease outside a Sikh temple in Ghaziabad, India, on Friday. (Reuters photo) Health officials are urgently trying to establish whether a group of Thais who recently returned home from India and tested positive for Covid-19 have contracted the new and highly dangerous variant of the virus currently sweeping through that country. The Public Health Ministry said on Friday that a laboratory was already analysing samples taken from the infected people to determine whether they had the same variant spreading in India, which on Friday posted another global record for daily coronavirus infections -- 385,000 cases in the previous 24 hours -- and almost 3,500 deaths.