BANGKOK – Thailand reported 15 new coronavirus cases on Friday and no new deaths, bringing the total number of cases since its outbreak in January to 2,854 cases and 50 deaths.

Nine of the new cases were related to previous cases and two had no known link.

Four other new cases were reported from the southern province of Yala, where officials are aggressively testing the population due to high infection rates, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, a spokesperson for the government’s COVID-19 position administration center.

2,490 patients have recovered and gone home since the outbreak.