Phuket announces it had 5 new cases of Covid yesterday and 1 death

[Thaiger]

Yesterday, Phuket announced it had 5 new Covid infections and its 7th death, a 72 year old man. Dr Kusak Kukiattikoon the chief of the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) corroborated the news that Phuket had 5 new Covid infections as well as the 7th death. Dr Kusak spoke in a live broadcast this morning where he was joined by the Phuket Governor, Narong Woonciew. Dr Kusak said that 2 of the new infections were from Nonthaburi and that they had been on the island for “about” 10 days. He says that the infected had negative test results when […]

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[Stonker]

Odd.  Cases from outside Phuket are included in the daily count, but according to the PPHO, as reported in the Phuket News yesterday, the weekly and total figures don't include "people infected in other provinces and people infected abroad".

 

I wonder why that would be .....

[kmc]

"death of the 72 year old man by saying he had been in the hospital for 2 months already". This is such a vicious disease, killing a deathly sick 72 year old, sheesh.