The country registered 83 more Covid-19 fatalities and 21,382 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning.

However, the figures did not include 13,220 positive results from antigen tests over the previous 24 hours. This would raise the total to 34,544.

Five fewer deaths were recorded in the 24-hour period ending 11.59pm Monday.

All but 58 of the 21,382 new infections were transmitted inside Thailand, Forty-four of the new domestic cases were prisoners, and 109 were detected via mass testing; all the others were diagnosed at hospitals.  

The 58 imported cases came from 20 countries and included 11 from the United Kingdom, eight from Cambodia, six each from Singapore and Germany, four from Malaysia and three each from Iran and Myanmar.

The 83 new fatalities were between the ages of 3 and 95 years old and included one Japanese.

Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,398,792 Covid-19 cases, including 1,175,357 this year, with 3,137,561 complete recoveries to date.

The death toll stood at 24,417 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 2,719 so far this year.

The highest number of Covid-related fatalities in a 24-hour period was 312 recorded on Aug 13, 2021. The highest number of cases was 27,071 on March 18.