Sunday COVID Update: 5,916 new infections, 44 deaths

[Thaiger]

Today the public health department has announced 5,916 new infections and 44 Covid-related deaths. 39 of the total are attributed to Thai prisons. The report indicates a stabilisation of numbers after 3 days hovering around the 6,000-per-day level of new cases. But Sundays often return lower-than-usual reports. • The Delta variant has been identified in 70% of Bangkok patients falling sick with Covid-19. Yong Poovorawan, Director at the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University, says the first outbreak of Covid-19 came early last year with the Wuhan strain, which quickly spread around the world. The current outbreak, which kicked-off in […]

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