28 Covid fatalities, 2,662 new cases
published : 8 Jun 2021 at 09:05
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
There were an additional 28 Covid-19 fatalities and 2,662 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Tuesday morning.
The 2,662 new cases comprised 2,128 among the general population and 534 among prison inmates.
Over the past 24 hours, 2,483 Covid-19 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals.
Since April 1 when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 153,685 Covid-19 patients, 104,573 of whom recovered.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 182,148 Covid-19 cases.
The death toll stood at 1,203 during the current third wave of Covid-19 and 1,297 from the beginning of the pandemic early last year.
Vocabulary
- comprise: to consist or be made up of two or more things - ประกอบด้วย
- discharge: to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a court of law - ได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกจาก
- fatality: death -
- pandemic: a disease that affects almost everyone in a very large area - โรคที่มีการแพร่กระจายหรือระบาดไปทั่ว
- toll: the number of deaths and injuries caused by a disaster, accident, disease, etc. - การสูญเสีย
- vaccinate: to give someone a vaccine, usually by injection (putting a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle and a syringe), to prevent them from getting a disease - ฉีดวัคซีน
