The government on Tuesday reported another 31 Covid-19 deaths.

The daily death toll matched the record high announced earlier this month on May 3. Thailand’s accumulated death toll is now 452.

1,919 new infections were recorded, raising the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic last year to 86,924.

Updating the figures on Tuesday, the Department of Disease Control said that since the third wave of Covid-19 began in early April 2021 there have been 58,061 cases.

Of these, 29,611 had recovered, including 1,829 discharged over the past 24 hours.

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said during his daily briefing that 17 of the 31 deaths were in Bangkok; two each in Nonthaburi, Suphanburi, Chon Buri and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces; and one each in Nakhon Pathom, Pathumthani, Samut Prakan, Lampang, Chiang Mai and Phichit.

He said those who died ranged in age from 34 to 94 years old.

Seventeen fatalities caught Covid-19 from infected relatives and four from colleagues. Two visited markets. Two more visited at-risk provinces. One was in close contact with a previously confirmed case. Another worked at an entertainment venue.