9,727 new Covid cases, 73 deaths
published : 21 Oct 2021 at 09:30
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Thailand logged 9,727 new Covid-19 cases and 73 additional fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, 10,075 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,792,716 Covid-19 patients, 1,672,508 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,821,579 Covid-19 cases, with 1,699,934 complete recoveries so far.
The death toll stood at 18,465 during the third wave and 18,559 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.
Vocabulary
- death toll: the number of people killed - ยอดผู้เสียชีวิต
- discharge: to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a court of law - ได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกจาก
- fatality: a death caused by an illness, accident, crime or war - การเสียชีวิต
- log: to put information in an official record or write a record of events - ลงบันทึก
- wave: an activity or situation which is happening again or is being repeated after a pause -
