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 The 75-year-old man, who had traveled to Bangkok for treatment for a
heart condition and was then diagnosed with the virus, was declared
free of the disease earlier this week.
"The medical team looking after the patient and three of his
relatives have decided that they can return home," Thai Public
Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin told reporters, adding that the
man and three of his relatives who traveled with him to Bangkok were
preparing to leave an infectious diseases facility.
It was not clear whether the patient and his family would travel
back to Oman immediately.
Thailand's Health Ministry said all 176 people on its watch-list who
were exposed to the country's single patient have tested negative
for the disease.
Thailand confirmed its first case of MERS last month, becoming the
fourth Asian country to register the virus this year.
In South Korea, which is battling the largest MERS outbreak outside
Saudi Arabia, 184 cases have been reported so far.
Of the 184 confirmed cases, 33 have died.
The outbreak has scared off tourists and kept South Koreans away
from restaurants, shopping areas and cinemas.
South Korea on Friday proposed a stimulus package worth 16.1
trillion won ($14.31 billion) to jump-start Asia's fourth-largest
economy as it fights to revive an economy reeling from a collapse in
exports and the spread of MERS.
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First identified in humans in 2012, MERS is caused by a corona virus
from the same family as the one that triggered the 2003 outbreak of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
There is no cure or vaccine.
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Juarawee Kittisilpa in Bangkok
and Christine Kim in Seoul; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing
by Nick Macfie)
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